Fearless Interview

1. Fearless Interview By Marky Stein Summarized by Quang Nguyen

2. Agenda • Why Are Interview So Scary? • Build Your Skills Arsenal • Q Statements: Your Secret Weapon • Research: What Separates the Hired from the Not Hired • Managing the First Twenty Seconds of the Interview • Answering Interview Questions • Negotiating Your Salary • Following-up

3. Why Are Interview So Scary?

4. Build Your Skills Arsenal • General skills • Job-specific skills • Personal traits • Competencies: clusters of skils • Flexibility • Adaptability • Problem-solving skills • Interpersonal communication • Ability and willingness to learn • Gifts

5. Q Statements: Your Secret Weapon • Q statement = Verb + 5WH + Result • Examples • I am very organized. • I organized meetings for top international executives in New York, Washington, D.C., and Hong Kong. • I organized up to 40 meetings a week for over 15 international executives in New York, Washington, D.C., and Hong Kong.

6. Research: What Separates the Hired from the Not Hired

7. Managing the First Twenty Seconds of the Interview

8. Answering Interview Questions • Straightforward questions • Questions behind questions • Stress questions • Questions you ask the employer

9. Negotiating Your Salary

10. Following-up

11. Conclusion

12. Q & A