With the increased competition around for technial posts, such as ST interview in the current economic climate – should you be invited for a job job interview, you need to have done as much preparation as possible. One interview skill that you could look at preparing to use is the exhibit to and tell strategy
This interview skill is derived from the impression that interviewers are more smitten by people who use examples to sell their skills rather than simply stating that they have those skills. (Obviously, the skills that we are talking about are the ones that they said they were looking for in the person specification – but you knew that, I presume?)
Your goal is to create the setting for you to show off your skills and then be ready to pounce, with relevant examples of your work, to exploit that opportunity to sell the notion that you have the skills that the job interview panel are looking for. To pull this off you need to focus on two tasks:
1. Get them to ask You for Your Work
2. Display Your Deeds
To set up the play, try to raise the opportunity by using one of the following language patterns:
* If you’re interested I could display to you…
* If you wanted to know more, I have the (report) with me right here…
* If it would be appropriate, you could have a look at…
* I have a written precis of the project here, if you wanted to see it…
* If it would help…
You also need to be able to display your work at the interview. In order to do this, pick out one or two projects that you could use for this strategy. Choose the projects that
* have work already in a written or electronic form
* which sell the most amount of skills, which are relevant for the post that you are being interviewed for
* with the greatest liklihood of use in a job interview
Be ready to reply to the questions that will naturally follow from the interview panel, when they scan this report for the first time. Remember, that the points that they mention when they meet your work “cold” are probably going to be different to those that you expect. You may want to ask a family member to go over your work and suggest what a “first timer” might ask you.
My advice would be to produce a professional copy of your project that you would be happy to leave with the job interview panel. It will provide them with a visible and kinaesthetic reminder of you when they go through their post interview discussions
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