By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
You have your last interview scheduled and you want to do it. What can you do to be prepared? I’ll go over some details you need to be prepared. By the way, don’t leave too early, the most important advice is lastly, after a minute if you follow my instructions I will make an offer to connect with my network on LinkedIn
2 huge final interview mistakes
I’m Jeff Altman, a big game hunter, and I coach people and organizations to become more effective. Here’s a video I’m going to make about the final interview. Because unlike the first or second interview, you’ve almost crossed the finish line.
You may be competing with someone for the role. So I want to remind you of some things you need to do to be prepared. Now, I’m going to skip over the bit about getting a good night’s sleep the night before because the reality is you’re probably going to be off work and the stress of the day is taking its toll on you.
I hope you get the most out of your adrenaline. If the weather is hot, get to the building early so you have a chance to cool off. If it’s cold, you want to warm up.
No one wants to shake hands with someone who has sweaty palms or extremely cold hands, right? It’s just one of those little things that drives people crazy. As a reminder, if you’re working through a recruiter, hopefully the recruiter has a relationship with the person you’ll be meeting with. So you can go beyond their LinkedIn profile and get to know their personality, what they like or don’t like.
Because it’s not enough to hear encouraging words like, “Oh, you’re meeting with the VP.” Oh, like this is a big, dramatic one. No, you want to hear from the recruiter who represents you about them as a person.
If you don’t have someone representing you, yes, you can go to LinkedIn and look up their background and find out about their academic history, where they live and where they’ve worked before. This will give you an idea of what they expect from you. The next few things are going to be pretty minor.
Carry a resume for everyone on your calendar. They will most likely never ask for it. They’ll have it printed out next to them before you come in the door, but in case they don’t get a chance, you’ll have the chance to present it to them if they ask.
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If they ask for references, say so politely and casually, and I’ll forward them to you after the interview. No problem at all. Do you want me to send it to you or HR? If they say to them, can I get your email address? I will give you my card later.
Great. You need to be prepared to answer some questions. The basic questions are like I teach in other videos.
Hey, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today. I’ve spoken to everyone and they’ve all been great and have a lot of praise for everyone involved in the calendar so far. I already know what their expectations are for the role, but I want to know what your expectations are.
Can you tell me what you think of the job and how I can help? What have they told you so far? And you’re ready to demonstrate your understanding of the role. This is approximately accurate. That’s how I see it.
amazing. I just want to make sure that if you hire me, I’m on the same page as you. Great.
You’ve viewed their LinkedIn profile. Hopefully you’ve received the recruiter briefing. Remember, one of the things they are looking for is consistency between what you told the organization and its people in previous interviews and what you say today.
You want to rehearse one or two additional stories from the stories you’ve told before. Like you might roll out an old story, as I was talking to Jerome about two weeks ago, when I was talking to Jerome about my meeting with him, the situation that I was in was… . . Then you tell a story about behavioral interviewing. So, you have to be prepared for that.
You want to be prepared for this. You want to be prepared for this. You want to be prepared for this.
You want to be prepared for this. You want to be prepared for this. You want to be prepared for this.
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You want to be prepared for this. You want to be prepared for this. You have to be prepared. . . Interview to determine if you have the skills to do the job.
But the advantage one has over another is the relationship with each person you interview, especially the managing director, the senior vice president, the managing director, whatever the title of the last person you interviewed was. Never forget to do this. I’m going to relay to the president of an organization a story about a guy I worked with a few years ago who wanted to be the chief of staff for an organization and he wanted to use PowerPoint for his final meeting to showcase his background.
There’s nothing inherently bad about this, but I reminded him that I don’t want you to focus on the presentation. I want you to focus on your relationship with this person because you are going to be the chief of staff. In your case, you might be a software developer or an administrative assistant or any number of roles on their team, but at the end of the day, the hiring manager has to like you and trust you and believe that you can help them achieve their goals.
Focus on this. This may help you get hired more than the reams of data you want to give them. Hope you find this helpful.
I’m Jeff Altman, big game hunter. If you are interested in my coaching, you can connect with me on LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/inTheBigGameHunter. Mention that you watched the video because I like knowing I’m helping someone.
Once we are connected, please send me a message if you are interested in coaching. One thing I want to mention is that I have a larger network than most other people. You know, my LinkedIn number is 7653.
If your network isn’t large enough to contact interviewers or see the profile of the person you’re interviewing, you can do a Google search or contact me and say, you know, I want to connect with you not for coaching, but you know I have an interview coming up and want to see someone’s profile. Would you like to contact me? I don’t always accept connection requests from people, especially from outside the United States. So please be sure to mention that this is why you want to contact me.
I’d be happy to do this so you can see if my network can help you view this profile. Hope you find this helpful. By the way, visit my . . By the way, if you want to subscribe to my channel on YouTube, see that little icon below? Click this button and you’ll be notified whenever I post a new video on YouTube.
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