everybody Don Georgevich here job
interview tools and today I want to
answer a burning question that people
write in to me almost every day with and
that is how many questions can I get
wrong on a job interview before I fail
the interview well you know what there's
no right answer to that there's no right
answer and I'll tell you why because all
questions are not created equally
some of them are weighted more heavily
than others now if you miss a lot of a
heavily weighted ones you know then you
know what you're probably not going to
get the job but if you miss some of the
the light weighted questions the ones
that that don't have as much value
associated with them then you have a
better chance so what are some of those
light weight questions well okay some of
the light weight questions that you can
probably screw up or you don't have to
give a great answer for is you know
maybe you know describe yourself or you
know what makes you a good leader how do
you start your day how do you manage
your time you know what are your what's
your favorite books um you know what
stresses you out those are some of the
the lightweight questions and there's
there really no right or wrong the
answer to those anyways and they don't
carry as much weight and if they don't
carry as much weight they're not going
to affect be the final decision in the
end from the employer so now there's
another set of questioning that it's a
little bit more detailed carries a
little bit more weight and those are
things like you know why did you leave
your last job tell me about yourself you
know things like that why do you want to
work here those types of questions
carry a little bit more weight maybe
maybe 30 percent it really just depends
on the interviewer but when they asked
you you know why do you want to work
here or - tell me about yourself if you
can't give them good answers to those
questions then then they're going then
that's going to weigh heavily against
you now the questions that matter the
most that carry all the weight carry all
the weight in the interview and they all
start off with tell me about a time when
you did blank that's right those are all
your behavioral questions though
questions I heard are designed to test
your level of competence so any question
that is asked in a way to test your
level of confidence is very high you
have to be able to answer competency
questions like all with almost near
hundred percent accuracy you can miss
you can miss maybe one or two but they
better be some easy ones or they better
be because maybe you just didn't have
all the information but if you're
missing multiple competency level
questions that's telling the interviewer
that you're not qualified for this job
that you know if you don't know how to
do these things you're not right for
this position and that's going to cut
you off even if you got even if you got
all the other questions right you could
get everything right you know why do you
want to work here why do you like this
place all that stuff you know what are
your weaknesses what are your strengths
you could get all those right and you
could miss two or three competency
questions that would just do you in
you'll be done they're like well you
know what if she doesn't know this stuff
she's out there's no way there's no way
she can you know be a developer on our
team if she doesn't know these
fundamentals of PHP coding or whatever
it is you know could be nursing could be
engineering could be accounting I mean
if you don't know these certain
accounting fundamentals you can't be an
accountant here you have to know this
stuff
you can get all the other stuff right
but if you're missing key questions
about the competencies on this position
you're done so knowing that now that you
know which questions carry the most
weight be prepared for competency level
questions simple as that you need to
prepare for competency level questions
using the star method star stands for
situation or task action and result I
have another video that I go into way
more detail on how to answer star
questions and I'm not going to do that
here but before you go on your next
interview make sure you are comfortable
using the star method to answer
behavioral style questions because they
carry all the weight they probably
carries
see the 70% of the weight of an
interviewers decision on whether you get
that job or not and that's going to
determine whether you pass that
interview or not 60 to 70% maybe even
more it just it just depends on the
employer everybody's a little bit
different but that's generally the
breakdown so you have to know the
answers to these questions and I can't I
can't give you the answers to those
questions because that comes from your
own level of experience there's they're
going to test you on what you know
that's what Starr questions do that's
what competency questions do nobody can
give you the answer to that it's
irrelevant you have to you have to know
it because it comes from your experience
but I can teach you can teach you the
framework in the style and how to frame
your answers and there's no guide that
does that better than the complete in
view answer guide and the completing
answer guide I go into great detail
about how to answer Starr questions
using the star formats I've got about 40
or 50 different behavior questions in
this guide that from all different
competencies and they're just going to
teach you the right way and how to frame
your answers how to talk about the
situation that you were in and the
action that you did and then how to sum
that up with the result so before your
next interview make sure I'm sure you're
ready for those star level competency
questions so that you can go farther in
the interview process and and I'll tell
you that that's one of the reasons
people don't go very far in any of you
they get like one interview have you
ever had just one interview and that was
it you never heard from him again
well that's because you failed the
competency part you failed the
competency part of the interview if you
didn't get a second interview it's as
simple as that
that's one way to know you failed now
they're not gonna tell you and I gotta
tell you why you failed they won't do
that that's something that you have to
know for yourself so when you start
getting the second interview then that
shows that a you know what they see
something in you that they like and
that's your opportunity to talk about
more about what you can do for them and
the value that you can bring to them
alright so grab the complete interview
answer guide before your next interview
and learn how to answer
those star questions you can get that
from job interview Tools comm it's
pretty cheap download it's like 50 bucks
it also comes in mp3 and video and
interest for a few bucks more on that so
that's all I have for you today good
luck on your next interview and I will
see you in the next video bye now if you
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