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Top Notch Interviews: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques from the First Call to Getting the Job You Want

The First Interview

For most job seekers, this will be their first real interview. All types of questions are possible and you will be interviewed by members of the hiring team. You will receive follow-up questions based on your resume and possible job qualification questions and, you will most likely receive behavioral questions for the first time in the interview process. To help prepare for this interview, we have some additional tips:

1. Began preparing for Behavioral Interview Questions. Since behavioral questions will begin to take on a larger aspect with this interview, it is important to allocate a good part of your preparation time to answer those questions. To do this to the fullest:

a. Make a list of possible job skills from your job description.

b. Make two positive examples from your work or education experience that show how you have a certain job skill.

c. Make two negative examples from your work or education experience that show how you have used certain job skill.

d. Go back over the examples and fill them in with as much content detail you can find and remember. It is best to find actual numbers and know dates and timelines.

e. Practice your answers to these behavioral questions for each job skill by stating these examples. As you practice these examples, adjust your answers to make them sound more professional and clear-cut. Ultimately, you want to make it so someone who knows nothing about your field would be able to follow it and you also want to have enough facts available that you can satisfactorily answer follow-up questions.

f. For the negative examples, choose ones that are minor issues. In addition, make sure you take responsibility for what happened. Do not blame others for the problem. Merely state this is what happened and how you addressed the issue or what you would do differently now. Bottom line is that by preparing for these negative behavioral questions, you will help ensure to put your best face forward.

2. Be ready for follow-up questions on resume- related and job qualification questions. Be prepared to answer more fully questions about your resume and how your skills fit the job description. When answering each question, be sure to drive home your strengths and if appropriate, provide them with some of the company information you have learned.

3. Make the interview a conversation. Try to turn the interview into a conversation. Recognize the interviewer(s) will have ask some questions, but there is no reason why it can’t take on a warm and conversational tone. Be warm and cheerful throughout the interview and you will more likely win over the interviewer. Remember this is not an interrogation, it is a conversation.

4. Get interviewer contact information for thank you letters. As always, get their contact information during the interview so you can send them a thank you letter and also ask them when you can expect to hear from them regarding the next round of the interview process.

5. Tell them you want the position. If nothing else, tell them you want the position. Even if you are not that interested in the position, make it clear to them you want the job by specifically stating it. Do not assume they will figure it out. If they know you want the job, they are more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt when deciding whether to advance you to the next round.

With these phone interview tips, you should have the knowledge to help get you to the on-site interviews.

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A job interview can be a challenging experience where you are asked all types of different questions that at first can seem like a personal interrogation. To help you fight back, we have put together a list of the different types of job interview questions. Armed with this information, you should be well on your way to taking back control over the interview.

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Designed throughout to meet the developmental needs of the beginning family therapist, this handbook provides readers with the basic skills and tools necessary to become empathic, confident, and successful practitioners in today’s rapidly changing field of family therapy. From initial client intake to the nuts-and-bolts of the interview, assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, treatment planning, intervention techniques, troubleshooting, and termination, the book trans… More >>

Essential Skills in Family Therapy: From the First Interview to Termination

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Designed for students in all mental health disciplines and for professionals who wish to hone their skills, this user-friendly, jargon-free text clearly shows how to conduct a successful diagnostic interview. The book covers a broad range of personalities and problems, offering fresh insight on how to elicit key information from even the most challenging patient. Focusing on both content and process, it details what should be asked and describes the best methods for… More >>

The First Interview: Revised for DSM-IV

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Readable and concise yet immensely informative, this bestselling text prepares students and new therapists to work confidently and effectively in real-world clinical practice with families. The authors offer wise and compassionate guidance on everything from intake and assessment to treatment planning, the nuts and bolts of specific interventions, the nuances of establishing therapeutic relationships, and how to troubleshoot when treatment gets “stuck.” They hel… More >>

Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Second Edition: From the First Interview to Termination

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This indispensable clinical guidebook, now in a revised and expanded third edition, describes and illustrates how to conduct a successful diagnostic mental health interview. James Morrison details effective methods for posing clinical questions; what the clinician should ask to obtain complete, accurate information; and how to select the best strategy to meet any clinical situation. Throughout the book, Morrison interweaves the latest research on what works with fre… More >>

The First Interview, Third Edition