Interviewing

Difficult interview questions fall into a few different categories, including stress questions ("I don't think you're good enough..."), seemingly off-the wall questions ("how do you find a needle in a haystack"), behavioral questions, including those that assume a negative (give me an example of a time when you had a difficult employee...") and "greatest weaknesses" types of questions.  In answering these questions, the key thing to remember is, as we say at the Five O’Clock Club, to play the interview "game".

Below are four of the areas that I focus on with clients when helping them to prepare for a job interview.

1) Be a consultant (take a strategic approach to the interview)
This is a whole mindset that can change the dynamic of the interview. You do this by figuratively sitting on the same side of the table as the interviewer, helping the interviewer solve her or his business problems. It's NOT about just memorizing the answers to their questions and then asking three of your own (this is the way many job-seekers approach the interview. . .