The First 60 Seconds - Win the Job Interview before It Begins

The First 60 Seconds - Win the Job Interview before It Begins
Author: Dan Burns

Get the Job before the Interview Even Takes Place!
The first 60 seconds of your meeting with a prospective employer are
important, but you don’t really want the success of your job interview
to hinge on a quick 60 seconds. It’s important to look at the job
interview as just one part of a longer-term, larger scope, and multifaceted
process.
Everything you do in the 60 days prior to the interview will determine
your interviewing success. Most of your competition will simply show
up for their interviews and attempt to talk about their resumes and
qualifications. For you, the interview can be the final formality in an
extensive process to win over your new boss.
The First 60 Seconds gives an easy, step-by-step approach addressing the
many potential variables of the hiring process. You can choose to focus
on each of the strategies, or you can supplement your career plan with
ideas you find here. Most of all, you will be making a positive, proactive
effort to manage the job interview process, your career, and your future
success.
Maxims of The First 60 Seconds Approach:

• On a job interview, in a business setting, and in every encounter you
have with another person, the other person will make a decisive
qualification of you within the first 60 seconds of the time you
meet. Expect it, prepare for it, and make the best of it.
• In attempting to get that next great career opportunity, while important,
your resume is not the key to your success; everything else you can
do is what differentiates you from the rest and gives you the edge.
• In attempting to get that next great career opportunity, while important,
the interview is not the key to your success; everything you do in
the first 60 seconds of meeting your prospective employer, everything
you can do in the 60 days prior to the interview, and every step you
take after the interview will determine your success.
• Beating out the competition is all about differentiation—setting
yourself apart from the masses and showing your unique strengths
and qualities. The simple key to differentiation is making a focused
and concerted effort to surpass what is normally expected.
• Proactive management of your job search process and your long term
career plan is the key to achieving the career and financial
success you deserve.
• The success of your First 60 Seconds encounter is dependent upon
everything you do prior to that encounter and everything you do
after that encounter as you manage your long-term goals and plans.
• Career growth and personal development is achievable through
small, continuous, and incremental change that can be sustained
over a long period of time.