Every time you interview, your main purpose is to convince the employer to hire you. The job search is a sales process. The hiring manager (your future boss) is the "customer," and you are both the sales rep and the product. Why should they choose you over all the other "products" out there?
Prospective employers love to ask you behavioral interview questions (also called situational interview questions). These kinds of questions dig a little deeper into what makes you tick. The answers to behavioral interview questions reveal how you have handled real-world situations in the past, which predict how you will probably behave in similar situations in the future. More importantly, they show an employer how you approach and solve problems—which is a valuable thing to know about a potential employee.
In every interview it's important to ask questions. This especially includes phone interviews.
Asking questions during any type of job interview makes you seem more intelligent and interested in the job. It also makes you more appealing to hiring managers—as long as you don't ask questions you could easily find the answers for with a Google search. If you ask the right questions, you also gain a strategic advantage. You can find out what the interviewer really cares about.
Phone interviews are becoming more and more important in the job search. They are your gateway to get to the face-to-face interview. Employers try to screen candidates out with phone interviews because they need to narrow down their list of applicants to bring on site.
So, in your job search, you need to do everything you can to give yourself the edge and ace that phone interview so you can move forward in the job search process.
Do you hate writing cover letters? Most people do.
However, employers expect to see a cover letter with your resume. They read your letter and form impressions of you as a candidate based on what they read. A bad cover letter (or a lack of one at all) can cause you to lose the chance to interview.
If you're like most people, you either (a) hate phone interviews or (b) don't take it as seriously as a face-to-face interview. The truth is that phone interviews are incredibly important because, without doing well there, you'll never get the chance to interview in person.
With the right preparation, you can learn to hate them a little less and practically guarantee yourself the invitation to interview on-site. These seven phone interview tips will help you ace any phone interview.
A hot-button question for employers is, 'Why do you want to work here, for us?' They want to know that you're interested specifically in this job—and not that you just need a paycheck.
Knowing how to answer interview questions well is always important, especially with this question. To reassure them that they are the ones you want to be with, your answer to this question should start with something like, “I'm interested in this job, at this company, because…" and then list at least three reasons why you want to work there.
