Job Description Provides Great Clues for Interview Success
By Cord Harper, CEO and Founder of Endeavor Agency
Carefully read and analyze the job description to improve your odds of success in the interview.
JOB DESCRIPTION PROVIDES CLUE FOR INTERVIEWS
“What jumped out at you from the job description?” I asked my client in the interview prep session.
“What do you mean?” he asks.
“Were there specific items that seemed important to the employer or things that seemed different than what you expected?” I clarified.
“I have to be honest, I briefly scanned it,” he admitted. “It looked like standard boilerplate stuff.”
I’m always amazed at how few candidates for executive level positions bother to carefully read the job description. There are numerous clues contained in it that would set them up for success if they took the time to read it.
Carefully read the job description. Read it slowly. Read it several times. Stop and think about why those things were important enough for the employer to include. It’s essentially a scouting report.
You begin to see what their real needs and challenges are when you do this. That knowledge allows you to speak specifically to their hot buttons in an interview.
But if you don’t carefully read it your interview is all about you and not about how you can help them. They don’t really know you yet. But they do care deeply about themselves.
If you want to win the game read the scouting reports and think about the best game plan for you.
About Endeavor Agency
Endeavor Agency is a leading executive career coaching company helping individual executives, VPs, senior managers, professionals, and recent college graduates find the jobs they truly want. Our additional resources, expertise, and career change specialists help our clients uncover more and better job opportunities than what they could access on their own.
Endeavor Agency helps rebrand clients to effectively communicate their value throughout the interview process and increase their odds dramatically of winning offers. Additionally, Endeavor Agency helps clients achieve better results in negotiating the terms of their employment agreements.
Endeavor Agency also provides executive coaching, outplacement services, and business consulting services. Endeavor can also help guide executives focused on the private equity and venture capital market segments.
