{"id":1555,"date":"2013-04-11T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:57:30","slug":"interview-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/interview-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being\u00a0<em>busted, questioned, &amp; interrogated<\/em> by my creative director, co-workers, and wife, I realized that I am probably the only one reading articles about job interview tips &amp; strategies when not looking for a job. I&#8217;ve been with this company for over 12 years and I have no plans on leaving; recently I&#8217;ve surprised people in my office by reading job interview articles. My response is usually a laugh and then, &#8220;Do you think I&#8217;d actually read these at work if I was really leaving?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I read about job interview skills because I do business development and marketing. Every prospect meeting is like a job interview and I&#8217;m working on getting a new client, otherwise known as a new J-O-B. Think about it, both prospective client meetings and job interviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone looking to hire &#8211; In my case, they are looking at hiring a company instead of an individual, but the prospect is looking to grow their team or fill a spot from another company that quit or got fired.<\/li>\n<li>Punctuality &#8211; If you don&#8217;t show up on time (actually early), you will have a tough time &#8220;selling&#8221; the interviewer.<\/li>\n<li>Need to dress professionally &#8211; You do not necessarily need to be in a suit, but you need to &#8220;dress up&#8221; in response to the profession and industry. I honestly struggle with dress because my clients range from suits to jeans, I work to fit in and still show my personality.<\/li>\n<li>Focus on the job at hand, while thinking long-term &#8211; The interview is filling a void, but it never hurts to talk about the long-term or as a previous client put it, the long view.<\/li>\n<li>Follow-up &#8211; Business development is all about the follow-up and so are interviews. Nearly every article I&#8217;ve ever read about interviews suggests some type of followup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One big difference between business development and a job interview is with business development, you are representing an entire company as an extension of the brand.<\/p>\n<p>Great resource for job interview tips is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/moneywatch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Money Watch<\/a>. Also, check out this image about what matters to interviews (talking to students) from <a href=\"http:\/\/sekho.com.pk\/educational-articles\/job-interview-tips-for-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sekho.com<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being\u00a0busted, questioned, &amp; interrogated by my creative director, co-workers, and wife, I realized that I am probably the only one reading articles about job interview tips &amp; strategies when not looking for a job. I&#8217;ve been with this company for over 12 years and I have no plans on leaving; recently I&#8217;ve surprised people<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/interview-tips\/\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[505,346,347],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-development","tag-business-development","tag-interview","tag-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}