Vlad Zachary
Mastering the Job Interview
© 2004 Vladimir Zachary (634479316531)
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An exclusive look in the job interview process of MBA jobhunters from Harvard Business School, Bentley, Brandeis, Suffolk, and Babson College
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- 1 Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
- 2 At this point in your career what would be the perfect job for y
- 3 At your last job - whom did you report to and what was their p
- 4 What were your personal responsibilities?
- 5 How would your boss describe you?
- 6 What was your greatest achievement(s) and how did you accomplish
- 7 What are your weaknesses and how do you work to fix them?
- 8 Why did you leave your previous employment?
- 9 What risks have you taken in your latest job and what were the o
- 10 What are your long-term goals?
- 11 Do you have any questions about the company or the position here
- 12 Why should we choose you?
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How I created Mastering the Job Interview
Imagine you are an entrepreneur who wants to build a new hospital in a provincial village in Botswana, Africa. You care very much about your project and you know that the local community will greatly benefit from your work. However, the local rules require you to meet with and get approval from the local tribal chief, who happens to have no formal education and does not speak English. At that point you get the following advice:
-Have a positive attitude, firm handshake, eye-contact and present your positive experience in the best possible light, list all the benefits they will get from your work ...
As a person who spent 8 months in a provincial village in Botswana, helping build the local telephone system, I can tell that no amount of preparation can be useful when meeting with the local tribal chief (and yes - they do have the last word according to the law). The chief was smart, self-educated, old man, who while listening to my translated arguments looked at me carefully and evaluated me as a person. I was about to 'invade' his community and he wanted to know if I would be a good fit as a person, to the culture of his village.
This is pretty much what happens with every good hiring manager - you can be the best at what you do, and yet the manager may find a better fit. So what do you do as a candidate to become the best fit? Obviously you will try to learn everything about the company's culture and will try to present yourself as the best fit for this culture. But how do you know if the next candidate is not just a little better fit? May be you can learn about these other candidates before the interview.
One way to do this is to carefully evaluate the candidates, presented in Mastering the Job Interview. What kind of a fit are they? Do you think the chief will select the smart, sharp, experienced guy with the German accent, the stuttering Boston fellow who proudly admits that he has passion for accounting and is the first in his family to go to college, or the Indian from MIT, who just added a Harvard MBA to his belt. Or may be they are all too aggressive for your 'village' and if you were the chief you would get the Taiwanese woman from San Francisco, who has the least experience and is relatively shy. Well - a picture is worth a thousand words and a person consists of a thousand pictures, which stay in the mind of the afore-mentioned hiring chief. And if you have in your mind the pictures of the German guy, the Boston fellow, the Indian, and the Taiwanese woman from San Francisco, you can find a way to be better than all of them on your interview.
As an international student at Babson and associate at the MBA career office in 1998, I encountered these cultural issues and decided that it must be because I am from Bulgaria - a different culture. Then I discovered that a fellow Babsonite from Iowa had the same issues. Then another born-in-the-USA job-hunter shared she had the same issues. After careful analysis we believe it is all due to the fact that there is no homogeneous culture among the US companies. Each one of them is a tribe of its own.
So this is how I decided to put Mastering the Job Interview together. And I am greatly encouraged by the positive feedback I am getting from many college professors and career specialists. Let me know what you think.
Vlad Zachary
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Excellent DVD!
author: KosukeThis is an excellent DVD! I bought this DVD in order to prepare the addmission interview of business school. It really helps me!! In addition, you're a great shiper,CD BABY!! I can received this DVD only within 5 days eventhough I live in Japan.
Excellent!!!
author: LoriThis is the best job interview prep I've ever used! I not only know how to sell myself; but also, what hiring managers are REALLY looking for. A must-have for anyone seeking employment. I highly recommend this DVD!
This DVD is the best
author: MartinThis DVD is the best. I mean it is no Holiwood, plotlines or superstars - it just rocks if you want to get a good grip of yourself before a job interview. I got it before an interview for a dream job and you know what - I GOT THE JOB. It was totally worth the bucks.
I got this DVD before a job-interview
author: TatyanaI got this DVD before a job-interview and spent an evening reviewing some of the questions and it totally worked for me. Having seen how the guys from Harvard interview - I knew I could do better. My confidence shot up and I got the job. If you are looking for job - this DVD is worth it.