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Demonstrate You are the Man/Woman for the Job - continued
Personal examples from the recent past demonstrates your unique ability to solve problems. When you tell success stories, you illustrate how you went about handling a difficult situation at work. At some point in your career, you were faced with what seemed to be an insurmountable problem. If the problem continued, there would have been unpleasant consequences.
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Rather than sit back and watch things fall apart, you took initiative and implemented a plan to solve the problem and bring about a positive result. For each appropriate interview question, relate it to a similar situation earlier in your career, talk briefly about how you handled it, and highlight the results.
These stories demonstrate to the interviewer that you have specific experience in dealing with similar situations.
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The key to any interview is to make the connection between your unique abilities and related situations in the new job through your success stories in similar scenarios. By demonstrated how you showed initiative in a sticky situation in your current job, you convince your prospective employers that when the chips are down, they can count on you to rise to the occasion.
Although it may be a new industry or function you are pursuing, there are many similarities to the day-to-day challenges and opportunities. Your career success stories bridge the gap.
Basically, your prospective employer has a need. You are demonstrating that you have the job skills, people skills, initiative and drive to anchor the position and maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace.
If you can demonstrate this and drive this point home successfully, then you are the man/woman they have been looking for.
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