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Alan Nierenberg:
The answer to questions cannot be top of mind answers. They have to be focused on what the job requires and if you answer a question that has nothing to do with the skills that that company requires, you lose.

Employment expert, Alan Nierenberg, author of the book, Winning The Interview Game says for example if you are interviewing for the job of manager of employee benefits…

If someone asks you a question what are your key strengths you don't want to say mountain climbing you want to focus on what that company needs. "Well, my key strengths are, I really understand employee benefits resulting in saving my company many thousands of dollars."

You may be the most qualified person and have all the right answers but Alan says if the interviewer doesn't like you you're never going to be hired. Consequentially…

You must establish rapport during that interview. If you do not establish rapport with that interviewer you will not be invited back. I particularly am very interested in practicing the Marshall Arts for example. I can't tell you, when I was looking for a job prior to my recruiting business, how that really lit up the interviewers, "Wow, tell me about that." And it was just a way of creating a little rapport with the interviewer to throw out an interesting hobby.

Tomorrow likely interview questions you need to have answers for, I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.