From the course: Switching Your Career
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Prepare for your job interview
From the course: Switching Your Career
Prepare for your job interview
- There are only three things hiring managers care about in the interview and one that'll be the deciding factor for a manager to extend the offer to a career switcher. The first is ability. Essentially, getting the work done without a lot of hand holding. The second is fit. So working collaboratively with the team and the third is motivation, which means you'll stay in the role long enough to produce meaningful results. Truthfully, hiring managers only worry about your non-traditional background because they're using it as a measure of these three factors. But your past only tells part of the story. Here's how to ace the interview as a switcher. Let's start with ability. If you've made it to the interview, you have the foundational skills required, but still need to bring your A game. This is your opportunity to show your most relevant accomplishments and a technique called SOART stories is perfect for this. SOART stands for situation, which is a description of the context and key…
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