So, we all know how important interview preparation is. I mean,
talking about the salary question or how to answer the question, tell me a little bit
about yourself or what happened at your last job or what do you think your biggest weakness is?
There are so many videos out there, including on my channel on how to best answer these questions.
And so, you get this gap, you know, how to best answer these questions, but
do you really know if you're sounding confident enough in your answers when you're providing these
answers to that hiring manager to that recruiter? My name is Bill Benoist. I'm a certified
professional career coach here in Silicon Valley. And I'm someone that you could hire, um,
to help you with interview preparation. I mean, number one, it's probably the most sought-after
service that I offer in my coaching practice, interview preparation, doing mock interviews.
But you know, for a lot of people hiring a career coach may just not be something that's
feasible for them. It may not be something that's affordable for them, but there are some other
resources. And I want to share one today with you that I think is cool. It's on the LinkedIn
platform. And my bet is most of you that's watching these videos have never seen this before.
It's interview preparation. And it's so cool because here's what it does.
It allows you to review a number of different potential interview questions
that you're likely going to be asked. You can videotape your response to these questions.
There's a great resource right there, because we all have to feel a lot more comfortable on video
and years of great practice, uh, resource and allows you to do it. It's going to give you almost
immediate feedback through artificial intelligence as to how well you've done
against something that I think is just absolutely priceless.
And finally, it's going to allow you to save your response and you can go ahead and send it to one
of your connections. Like let's say your career coach, or maybe one of your connections that you
highly value their opinion and trust their opinion. And you want to get their honest
feedback as to, oh well, you're answering this question. All of this is a resource
sense available in LinkedIn at absolutely no cost to you. And let me show you how this works.
Okay. So, I have just opened up my LinkedIn account. I'm on my homepage of LinkedIn. In fact,
there's my friends Manuela. Amen. Willa. Nice to see you then. Well, as a great career coach,
by the way, check her out. If you want to follow her, she has always some great
videos out here on LinkedIn. But what I want to show you is what we're going to do is I'm going
to go up and click on jobs up here at the top. And again, my that is you've been here before,
but you've never been over here in the left where it says interview prep. So let's check this out.
So it click on this. Look here. 26 common questions that you can expect during the
interview process. Uh, tell me about yourself. What is your greatest strength? What is your
greatest weakness? Why should we hire you? Why do you want to work here, et cetera, et cetera. So
we're just going to go with the first one. Tell me about yourself. If you see over here,
there's a practice and when you click on practice, once you to notice what happens here, practice
your answer and choose if you want to privately receive feedback. So I could write a response
or I could do a recorded video guys. I am going to suggest you do record a video. I mean, this
is a great opportunity to get some feedback as to how well you are coming across when it comes
to video. So let's go ahead and do this and we'll click on that and sets up the camera.
Automatic feedback is currently unavailable, but we'll get it in a second. I'm going to click on
the record button here. We have a countdown to one. So as you can see from my resume,
I'm a certified professional career coach here in Silicon valley, primarily work with individuals
in mid to late career, like to say help them find jobs that feel their passion rather than zapping
it. I worked in private public and government industries before coaching. I was a vice
president of information services where I managed a remote team of 11 across the U S and Canada,
according to the Gallup organization, my number one strength is connectivity. And I think that's
spot on. I'm definitely a people person. And you know, what I think makes me unique is that
for three years now, I've been uploading career tips and strategies to YouTube.
I have well over 300,000 views on my channel, several thousand subscribers.
And I think that's, you know, something that just makes me stand out from the rest
of the crowd. And know what I'm going to do is I'm going to stop the record.
It says words 138 per minute. Good pitch variation, all of this right here,
preview of your feedback. Save your video answer. I'm going to click on this.
Now look here. Some AI feedback evaluates the delivery. I am well above the standard here.
Your pace is just right. Keep it up and look here, keeping a good picture. Haitian can help
engage your audience. I kind of started out with a monotone and then I went up high and ended on
a good note. So void filler words like you know, which is something that it looks like it picked
up guys. This I think is priceless. I really think this is priceless. So definitely check it out free
resource for you on LinkedIn. So guys, I hope you found this video informative and useful. If you
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