hey everybody don georgevich here with
job interview tools and in this video
i'm going to walk you through my seven
best interview tips
for beginners so if you're just starting
out interviewing for jobs these are
going to be very helpful to you they'll
help you
understand what to expect in the
interview and how to present yourself
and just how to make the best possible
first impression now maybe let's say
you're an experienced professional but
you haven't interviewed for five or ten
years
i would consider that your interviewer
skills are somewhat at a beginner level
so this is going to help you kind of
just
polish up your interview skills a little
bit sand off any rough edges so that
they can just see the best possible you
and so that you have a better idea of
what's going to be coming at you
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first one is salary and this is one of
the things that nobody or at least job
seekers never
seem to like to talk about
and everybody's always scared about
talking about money but i look at it
this way are you willing to work for
free
obviously not so money is at the root of
whether you go to work here or not and
that's the case for most people
now i'm gonna cover salary from two
points now the first way is when they
first give you the call
and say hey
don are you interested in a position um
would you like to come in and talk about
it so that's where they contact you over
the phone and invite you to an interview
or just kind of ask you a little bit
more about what you're looking for
now that is one of the best
times to bring up salary usually at the
end of that phone call or somewhere in
between
where and i like to simply say has a
salary range been determined for this
position now this will help you decide
whether you want to even go on this
interview or not now let's say for
example
this job pays 50 000 a year but your
salary range is in the 70 or 80 range
if you don't find out what the job pays
until you show up for the interview
you've just wasted a bunch of your time
and a bunch of their time but if you
just simply ask that question during the
initial
phone contact you can find out whether
you want to move forward or not now
sometimes they don't know they might say
you know what we haven't decided yet or
the hiring manager knows that and that's
okay
but
it's okay for you to bring it up
now you might be saying don
i already have my interview scheduled
they already called me
i didn't get a chance to ask that and
that's totally cool you're not alone
that's usually what happens for most
people so the best way to bring up
salary
in the job interview whether whether
you're meeting them for the first time
on skype or you go down to their office
is
wait until the end of the interview
don't bring it up in the beginning
unless they do one of their questions
might be you know
you know what is your salary range but
still that'll usually be near the end of
the interview now if they don't bring it
up and sometimes they don't i don't know
why
but
if at the end of the interview you felt
like you've had a good interview and
this is a job that you'd be interested
in you can simply ask them hey you know
mr interviewer i'm really interested in
this work and i i think i could really
be a lot of value here
has a salary range been determined for
the position now it's very important
that you ask it like that
because that way you're not saying you
know what does the job pay
because that's it just kind of has a
different meaning simply ask
has a salary range been determined for
the position it's a simple yes or no
question if they say yes then they'll
likely lead into what that range is
or they might say no it hasn't
and then you say okay now they might
turn it back on you and they might say
what is your salary range what are you
looking for and that's where you need to
be quick with an answer you need to have
a response
that is
fair market value for yourself so let's
say for example for the type of work
that you do you know you're worth sixty
thousand dollars
your salary range might be
you know fifty five to seventy thousand
fifty five to 75 000. usually i like to
go with a 15 to 20 000 span now your low
range make sure that that's your bottom
so if they were to offer you one dime
less than your bottom low range
you're out
so those are numbers that you need to
have
in on your notes or in your pocket or
whatever you need to know what you're
willing to accept and you need to be
quick with it you don't want to be in
the interview and say well i don't know
i'm not sure how much i'm willing to
take um
you don't want to play that game when
you're talking about money you need to
be quick and you need to be direct so
let's move on to number two a lot of
interviews these days are over skype or
over zoom
now
there's all kinds of little tips and
tricks and stuff you could go with on
zoom and i have a separate video about
that but just very briefly one of the
common questions i get is you know how
should i dress
i always say dress professional
always you know something with you know
a nice collared shirt or you know
whatever some kind of uh professional
clothing because you don't want to show
up in a t-shirt or something like that
you don't want to show up with you know
bed hair or anything like that
show up professional plus this will even
make you feel more professional now also
when you're on skype some of the things
that i like to do i never like talking
into the little webcam i don't really
think the uh the microphone and that's
very good so i always have a separate
headset with a microphone so that when
i'm talking they can hear me very
clearly and when i have a headset on
their uh
all everything they say gets pumped
directly into my ear so i can hear
exactly everything they're saying
without saying what what was that
and then another thing while you're on
skype make sure you turn off all of your
notifications close your email i have
been on skype consultations with so many
of my clients and almost every one of
them they have little email chimes
coming in ding ding ding you know while
we're having a meaningful consultation
now if you're doing this with your
interviewer and your messenger is going
off ding ding ding
it's just not going to look good for you
this is not going to be showing your
most professional side
so
close all notifications
and just have skype up or zoom or
whatever it is you're talking with
and have your conversation that way
uninterrupt
because if you're even if you have
silent notifications on you're going to
kind of catch them in the corner your
eye and it's going to distract you
from the interview and when i'm working
with somebody i can tell if they get
distracted i can just i can just because
it breaks continuity in in the in the
continental conversation
so
all notifications turn off over skype
all right moving on to number three
use a lower
voice if you can't i mean we can all
lower our voice we all have a we only
have this natural
tone that we speak at but studies show
that lowering lowering your voice just a
little bit will make you sound more
professional
more direct more commanding
and
that will look good on an interview i
mean if you have a really high voice and
you're talking like this on the
interview
you're going to come across a lot better
and a lot more direct and professional
if you lower that voice just a little
bit now
if you have a naturally high voice it's
going to take a little bit of effort for
you to bring that down
but during an interview
it's really going to show that you're a
lot more professional it's going to show
that you're a lot more commanding that
you're a lot more direct
and that you're a lot more sincere
so
just keep that in mind and practice
practice lowering your voice just a
little bit now if you forget if you're
in the interview and you forget
that you've lowered your voice your
advice your voice is likely to create
back up to where it was so you're gonna
have to constantly try to bring that
down and keep it under control
if you can it's just that
a lower voice can really help you and
kind of push your candidacy a little bit
farther in the interview alright so
moving on to number four this also has
to do with voice and speech and it's
called the rule of 7
38 55 and what those numbers actually
mean and this is scientifically proven
it means that all communication
any of our forms of physical
communication
only
seven
percent is carried through our direct
speech
so
that means
the words that you use don't have as
much of an impact as
how you use them so if i'm just reading
off to you and i'm speaking like this
you're only going to grasp seven percent
of what i'm saying just
from my words alone
now
it goes up to 38
when you enhance your voice
when you have voice inflection so you
might want to talk real soft you might
want to talk real loud to emphasize your
points you might want to talk very
direct at the interviewer but
ranging your vocal tone from high to low
to medium and slowing down
your rate of speech when you really
want them to understand something or
speeding it up when you're trying to
talk fast through something
variable speech patterns
lowering your register raising your
register emphasizing your voice accounts
for 38
of how much of your answers are
communicated to the interviewer
now it's the rule of 7 38 55 the 55 is
body language that means how i use my
hands how i use my facial expressions
how i use my eyes my mouth all of that
my body language communicates
55
of my total communication so just think
about it
just your words alone are only 7
and you would think that's the most
important part but it's not
the most important part is how they hear
you and how they feel you and how they
see you
so remember the rule of 7 38 55 on your
next interview so moving on to number
five they're going to ask you questions
that
you may not know the answer
it happens
now sometimes when people get asked a
question they say well i don't know
that doesn't look good you might be able
to pull that off once in an interview
but
if you say i don't know more than once
that's probably about it so what i want
to do give you a little tip here for
answering questions when you kind of
don't know the answer so if they ask you
a question and you're like gosh i'm not
sure i'm not really sure what they meant
just ask them
it's kind of like stalling for time say
can you tell me a little bit more about
what you mean or can you rephrase that
question a different way now again you
can't keep using this over and over for
each question this is just to bail you
out but ask for clarification now let's
say they ask you a question and you
understand it but you just don't know
the answer say they ask you a question
about you know can you tell me about
your experience with
let's say just salesforce here which is
a crm solution
and you don't know anything about it
what you might want to do is say you
know what i really don't know much about
salesforce but i do know about one of
their competitors you know product x
and and then answer their question using
you know a different product or a
different program it's called reframing
so you simply
acknowledge the question but you answer
it using information that you can
actually answer it with so they say can
you tell me a little bit more about you
know your experience with salesforce and
like well i really don't have experience
with salesforce but i do have experience
with this other platform
let me tell you how to solve that
problem or how to do that in this other
platform and that way you just reframe
the question
and you get away from
not having to say i don't know all right
moving on to number six when you get to
the end of the interview and let's just
assume that everything went well
you want to get some feedback from the
interviewer to kind of gauge how they
feel about you so one of the questions i
like to ask is you know mr interviewer
i'm i'm really intrigued by everything
you're doing here i like this position
i think i could i think i could really
fit in around here let me ask you if i
were to come to work for you if we were
to come to an agreement and i came to
work for you
how would you see me fitting in around
here over the next six months
and then stop talking
what this question done this is a very
strategic question this is meant to
cause the interviewer to
visualize you working there they can't
help but think about hmm
how do i see dawn fitting in around here
over the next six months
forces them to visualize you
and they're either going to come back
and say
i'm not sure
and if they do that that's the kiss of
death that means that they can't see you
working there that means they're never
going to call you again
so what you want to do is try to fix
that
while you can and you might simply say
um
what kind of concerns do you have about
me coming to work here
and then they'll say well you know we're
not sure about your experience here or
we wish you had a little bit more
expertise in this area i don't know what
they're going to say but they're going
to tell you what their concerns are now
it's better to find out their concerns
now while you're in the interview then
you know two weeks later when you call
up and say hey did i get the job and
they'd be like no
um so you want to find out now that way
it gives you an opportunity to do
something about it you can actually
address their concerns in the interview
now they also might come back and say
well you know if if
if you were to come to work here i could
see you working on this project and that
project and and then moving into this
department and that's exactly what you
want to hear because now they just
visualized you in the role
and they can see you in the role
and now you can go to the next step
which is the final close which is number
seven
and then you might want to simply say
hey that sounds great
when do you guys plan to make a hiring
decision it's a very strategic question
that you want to ask and that's step
number seven the last thing you want to
do
when do you plan to make a hiring
decision and they're probably gonna say
oh well we hope to interview a few more
candidates and then maybe in two to
three weeks and then your follow-up to
that is hey do you mind if i follow up
with you before that
and they'll be like yeah sure
and then get the phone number and get
their email address and that way you're
essentially asking for permission to
follow up so in a week or two you know
maybe a week before they make a hiring
decision
you call them up or you email them and
you say hey you know i was just
following up on the position you know i
told you i'd give you a call about this
time and that way you don't have to feel
uncomfortable about calling or emailing
them because you've already asked them
if you can follow up and they said yes
so you have permission to call it's like
they're
expecting you to call
so there you go my friend seven steps
for beginners for your next interview
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you have it my friend seven steps
to preparing for your next interview if
you're a beginner and a couple of extra
tips there on how to answer the most
common interview questions in a job
interview so that my friend is all i
have for you today good luck on your
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