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How to Sell Yourself in a Job Interview to Guarantee a Job Offer

October 3, 2018 By EMI

How to Sell Yourself in a Job Interview to Guarantee a Job Offer is a guest post by Nader Mowlaee

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You’ve sent out your resume and cover letter and gotten that job interview you wanted. Are you ready? Because now it’s time to concentrate and do whatever it takes to get the job you’ve always wanted. Begin by learning everything there is about the company you’re interviewing at, the person you’re be meeting, and the position you’ll be interviewing for.

Go to LinkedIn and search for other people with the same job title, who work at the same company. Go to all their profiles and see what information and data you can gather about their work and projects. Write everything down and take it to the interview with you; and feel free to ask questions based on what you found.

From your first attempt to contact a person and throughout the entire interview process, keep the 7-38-55 Rule Of Communication in mind. This is a communication model by Albert Mehrabian, a professor of psychology at UCLA, which suggests that the word we speak and say out loud is only 7% of what is read and understood by the recipient of our full message. 38% of our message comes from the intonation (pitch) and changes in the volume and speed of our voice, while a whopping 55% is from totally non-verbal cues such as body language, facial impressions, and posture.

Make sure that your body language and tone of voice demonstrate your level of enthusiasm for the job you’re interviewing for. Sit up straight, shoulders back, arms in front of you, not crossed, while keeping eye contact in order to show your confidence with your body in addition to your verbal cues.

Follow these tips to ace every stage of your upcoming interviews and get more job offers than ever before.

1st Job Interview: Ask Questions and Identify Problems

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TECC 131: Questions and Answers on Engineering Career Challenges and Critical Decisions

October 7, 2016 By EMI

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In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast I am going to answer questions on engineering career challenges and critical decisions that some of our listeners have to make.

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Here are the summary of questions and answers discussed in this episode:

Question:

If an engineering job offer comes up and you have no other offers waiting, but you know that it isn’t what you truly want, do you just take it regardless, just because there is nothing better, or do you pass on the opportunity and find something else until you get an engineering offer you really are passionate about?

Answer:

  • At this point in your career, think experience, not passion
  • You need to be a sponge right now and figure out your passion later.
  • Don’t just take anything, but be lenient and flexible and start to get experience.

Question:

I want advice on how to get work experience and an engineering internship, where to get them, and anything else that I should start doing and get involved with now to give myself the best chance to succeed as an engineer?  My ideal goal is to work for NASA one day.

Answer:

  • Talk to engineers at NASA and ask them to mentor you.
  • Contact your school alum department and find people who work at NASA.
  • Go onto LinkedIn and search for NASA engineers and reach out to them.
  • Improve your grades.
  • Work hard, but get the blueprint from the horse’s mouth.

Question:

I would love to go back to school to study aerospace engineering but how would that look to prospective employers? Would it be worth the time, money, and effort to change careers this late in life?

Answer:

  • You are still young and can definitely still make a career change.
  • I want to give you this quote by Jeff Bleustein: “This isn’t a practice life”. This is your only opportunity to go through life and make a career for yourself, so you want to do it the right way.
  • Don’t just keep doing what you are doing, if you are not passionate about it.
  • Always think about what the risks are associated with going to study engineering.
  • Consider studying part time online for at least 6 – 12 months, just to give yourself an idea of what the job entails.
  • Talk to other people that also started an engineering career later in their lives.
  • Try it out, but minimize the risks and investment you have to make, until you are sure that you enjoy the engineering aspect of it.

Question:

I am looking for advice on how to approach my engineering company to request financial assistance with personal development programs.

 Answer:

  • Forget pitching your boss on Tony Robbins. Pitch him on how the seminar will make him and the engineering company more money.
  • When you want to sell someone on something, you need to sell them on the benefits of it for them, not for you.
  • Ask yourself if the seminar will make you more productive?  If yes, tell your boss how.
  • Will it help you build more relationships that might yield opportunities?  If yes, tell him that and quantify it.

More in this episode…

In the Take Action Today segment of the show, I will answer one more question on a very tough career decision one of our listeners have to make.

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals –  LL Cool J

Books mentioned in this episode:

Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

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Resources and links mentioned in this session include:

One-on-One Career Coaching for Engineers
The Engineering Mastermind

How important is it to have passion in your engineering career?

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To your success,

Anthony Fasano, PE, LEED AP
Engineering Management Institute
Author of Engineer Your Own Success

Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: aerospace engineering, Anthony Fasano, Critical Decisions, Engineering Career Challenges, engineering opportunities, engineering passion, financial assistance, job offer, NASA

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