Sports Jobs Interviewing Success
Updated: 6:31 p.m. EDT, March 26th, 2008It is important for you to understand your role as a candidate. Up until the interview, your potential employer has only thought of you as a name on a paper. You have been analyzed quantitatively, weighted and measured, and stacked-up against. Nothing more. Your individuality and personality have had no measure in the process, but that all changes in the personal interview.
The interview is your opportunity to create such an impression that you will not be relegated to paper again. To do so would be an injustice.
Come across with clarity and conviction when you interview, but don't confuse this with arrogance. Rehearse your answers with a friend by doing some role-playing. It will definitely help you with your all important delivery.
Arguably more important is to get some well prepared questions together to ask the interviewer. The worst thing to do is to answer the "Do you have any questions?" question with a reverberating "No." Do something like that, and you just ended your chances of getting the job.
Be careful not to become a robot during your interview. If you are not able to keep a level of spontaneity to answers you will sound like a robot citing a prerecorded message. Anybody can be a robot, and that's not what the company is looking for.
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Make sure that your answers relate to the prospective position somehow. Interviewers love to ask indirect answers to ascertain just how well your gears spin (how well you think on your feet). If you fumble and answer a question like "Tell me about your current or last position" with "pulling the feathers off of those chickens sure made my fingers hurt sometimes." Rather than giving an answer like, "I was required to handle several different difficult tasks at once, and as a result I have become adept at overcoming dynamic situations." Your answer needs to have applicability to the position.
Try to find an angle to develop a rapport with your interviewer. If you can create the impression that you share many things in common with the interviewer and they like you, your chances of getting the job will greatly increase.
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