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How to Succeed at ANY Job Interview

Beverly

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This blog, written by Adreas von der Heydt. Country Manager of Amazon BuyVIP in Germany. Before that he hold senior management positions at L'Oréal. He´s a leadership expert, management coach and NLP master. He also founded Consumer Goods Club. Andreas worked and lived in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.

Very good information and it does work once you learn how to do it - you can get any job that you are qualified for, if you do it right. Took me years to learn this stuff but here it all is in an easy to understand, concise blog post by an expert and, a man who I'm certain is often interviewing people for lucrative positions.

(Not written by me)

Full Article - I've pasted the highlights ONLY here. The full article explains how todo each of the highlighted tasks.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130912053712-175081329-how-you-succeed-at-every-job-interview

I´ve been intending to write today´s blog article for a long time. One reason being that over the years I´ve seen many candidates who have been very good in job interviews and who got the job they applied for. At the same time, I´ve also met and interviewed multiple people who did not make it, i.e. who did not get the job at the end.

A second reason is that I´ve arrived at the conclusion, that those who did not get the job might not have necessarily been less capable of fulfilling the role than the ones who got it. Often, they were just not able to communicate or to deliver what was expected from them in the crucial moments of the interviews. Why?

Below I´ve listed 11 interview principles in order to be successful at your next job interview and to get the job. Some of them you know. Some of them you might have forgotten about. And others, you might not have considered yet.

First, Make the “Fit Test“
Research the Target Company
Know Your interviewer(s)
Arrive On-Time and Professionally Focused
Adjust Your Appearance, Style and Tone
Know Yourself and The Value You Might be Adding
Anticipate Questions and Possible Areas of Concern
Stay Open-Minded, Positive, And Always Engaged
Be Yourself And Do Not Pretend
Finish The Interview In Style
Two More Things Many Candidates Forget About
 
What about those of us who are slightly monotonous? We just ****ed as usual?

Practice with a tape recorder, speak, play back, work on breaking the monotone, with a little practice you will learn what your voice sounds like in you ears when it sounds right on the recording. Really isn't hard to do, a bit higher on positive or exciting points, lower and softer on things you have to mention but, want to down play. Listen to sample interviews on YouTube and use them as guides as to how to sound, just a bit of practice and, like any other skill, you can learn to fake it when you need to.

If you can't do that, simply be almost honest with the interviewer and, tell them upfront, at the beginning that you have a mild speech impediment so, sound slightly monotone. You won't be going for a job that requires top notch verbal skills anyway but, being upfront clears the air with the interviewer so that they don't expect perfect tone in your voice and, will usually ignore the more monotone speech once they have a reason for it.

Of course, if it's a company and interviewer that your pre interview research indicates would be fine to reveal ASD up front, then, do that and explain briefly that your somewhat monotone voice is a part of living with ASD for you.
 
My natural voice is monotonous (reports from primary school note on this) but even putting in tones it's still slightly monotonous.

And everyone here tells me not to disclose under any circumstance. So I haven't.
 
Disclosing is hard right now, it's hard to know when doing so will be a help or a hindrance. A bit of research on the person that will be interviewing you and/or the company can help make that determination. You are correct, as a rule it's best not to disclose but, there are situations and places where that is not the case.

That's one thing I hope to at least make some progress toward changing for us. I want it to be okay to disclose our ASD to employers, even if that has to come under disabled rights, which I don't like but, if that is the only way to make it happen quickly, then that's what has to happen.
 
Disclosing is hard right now, it's hard to know when doing so will be a help or a hindrance. A bit of research on the person that will be interviewing you and/or the company can help make that determination. You are correct, as a rule it's best not to disclose but, there are situations and places where that is not the case.

That's one thing I hope to at least make some progress toward changing for us. I want it to be okay to disclose our ASD to employers, even if that has to come under disabled rights, which I don't like but, if that is the only way to make it happen quickly, then that's what has to happen.

Look up Specialisterne. There may be one near you if you are close enough to a bigger city or willing/able to relocate.
 

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