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1. Introduction : Welcome to how to ace your next job interview, the only job interview guide you'll ever need in this class, you learn how to make a great end confident impression in your next job interview, minor mass must say. And I'm leading you through this course. I was 15 years old when I did my first job interview. And as you can imagine, I was very nervous. My mother actually made me fit for this first interview in my entire life, she told me what to say, what not to say, how to address and all these kind of things. Where since that day, 28 or 29 years have passed. And since that time, I conducted many job interviews. I'm an executive chef actually and have been working on five different continents and different countries. And I conducted many, many interviews, are recruited a lot of chefs and also I myself, of course, had to do job interviews and apply for different positions. I wanted to grow. I wanted to make Korea my online classes here to help you, to make recruit us, hire you. And here's how I'm gonna do it. Learn what the purpose of a job interview is, how to prepare for your next interview, how to research the company. What is important to know about grooming and clothing? We will talk about your equipment setup, especially when you do online interviews. Then I will lead you through the 16 most popular interview questions and how to answer them. I will share with you some general interview tips. Also, I will talk about how to properly sell yourself because this is crucial and very important. I will also share with you how to tell stories because this interconnects with selling yourself and being confident in front of the recruiter. I will let you know what you have to do after an interview and then we do a wrap up and cause high will share additional resources with you with sandpit, Q and A's and other stuff. So you can look forward to this course and also to Earth's resources. By the end of this course, you will be able to conduct your next job interview. And a much more confident manner goal is to make a great professional impression and to land your next job. There are no requirements needed for this class other than that you have an open mind and a willingness to learn. And this course is for everyone who wants to improve his or her interview skills in order to stand out and get the job.
2. What is the Purpose of a Job Interview ?: So what is the purpose of a job interview? It's very clear. It is getting to know each other. The company invites you to get to know you more and yeah. And the other way around, you want to know about the company. You want to learn about the company when you want to speak to some representative of the company. So this is the simple purpose of a job interview. It's a getting to know each other. The most important thing in a job interview from the applicant's perspective is definitely selling yourself. This is a concept which I will refer during this class many, many times. And we also talk about this in later sections. I'm going to talk about the psychology of selling yourself certain techniques. We go over this question and answers this famously asked interview questions. And many people might be even afraid of to receive them during an interview. So we cover all that. And I also will share stories of my own experience, of my own history, of course, and will explain to you what it really means to sell yourself. Basically, when you go into a job interview, you are pitching your yourself. That's what it is. It's a sales call basically. And this, you have to keep in your mind all the time to bring yourself into the right mindset and then 2D, right? Attitude. Yeah, and the interviewer will of course, test you. They want to get to know you. They want to figure out and find out what kind of personality you are a fit for the company, and so on. And therefore, they will ask questions and it really depends on the interview. There is no rule actually how many questions are being asked. But there are a set of typical interview questions and we will go over these questions at a later stage. But this is you have to know, you have to expect to. Being asked these also tricky questions, sometimes not easy to answer. And that's the most important part of an interview because that's why it's called an interview. People, somebody asks a question and you need to answer it.
3. This was my toughest Job Interview ever - Part 1: An interview normally also should not exceed 60 minutes. This is my experience. So everything between 15 to 20 or 15 to 60 minutes, this is my experience. This is a normal denominator timeframe of a professional job interview. Yeah. And every job interview is different. That's my experience. No job interview I have done is the same. They are similar in structure, like an introduction. And then the tell me about yourself sectioning or whether employer asks you to share a little bit about yourself than is typical question, stable rays and you answer them and then there will be a conclusion. But every, every interview in my experience was always different in terms of first and foremost, what kind of questions I was asked, you know? And this is also the main focus of this online class here because I had interviews where it was very, very, how to say a very relaxed, you know, I had a nice to chat with the person on the phone. It was more like a private conversation. These are these people who just want to get to know you. I assume these are people who are operating from that gut feeling. Oh, they just want to see how is the chemistry between me and the sky That's candidate, and then they will make a decision. But I also had interviews where it was really, really tough. And one of these job interviews, which I will never forget was the Ritz-Carlton Company. The Ritz-Carlton Company has special set of interview questions. They have a system how to screen applicants, and the system is famous or infamous, infamous. Whatever you want. And I underwent this screening with Ritz-Carlton many years ago and I can tell you that was the toughest ever.
4. This was my toughest Job Interview ever - Part 2: I remember the ask about 140 questions. The interview of course was Scatchard and they were telling me, You know, we interviewed. Interview will take about an hour or so and we will ask you a 140 questions questions. And then you will have like one minute time to answer each question. And if you cannot answer the questions or if you don't know how to answer, then you can skip the the answer and so on. And yeah, I remember seeking advice also from other colleagues. You know, I told him I haven't Ritz-Carlton interview and some hi friends told me, Oh my God, that's crazy. No, I've done the same. I failed. I didn't pass and, you know, but at the time, there was the Internet already. So I looked up a try to find these questions online and they now try. I found them. I prepared that was another friend who already mentioned failed, but he shared with me his DOT questions. They asked these kind of things, so I prepared where and the long story short, I actually passed the interview, but I can tell you, I remember it was very, very tough. Yes. And I remember there were like out of although the 140 questions sorry, I have to correct myself. Not a 140 questions, but about 45 questions because the interview was roughly around 40 minutes and yeah. So between 40 and 45 questions pad. That's already enough. And Deborah, like a handful of questions where I did not know the answer, I simply had to pass to say Next question, please. And yeah, that was my experience. So vida also had very, very easy going interviews where I landed the job after a 10 minute conversation. So that's how it can go. But this is no. Let's say a free ticket that you do not prepare, that would be the most foolish thing to do if you do not prepare for your next job interview, especially for all these questions and answers, because you'd never really know who is sitting opposite of you and what they want to know and how they want to test you and they're really test you, you know. And yeah, so that's what I wanted to share about my experience.
5. Tips for researching the Company - Part 1: In preparation for your job interview, the most important thing you need to do in the beginning prior to the interview is that you research the company. This is what I have mentioned already before. And as a quick win, this is really, really crucial. Some people don't do that. They just walk in and sit down in front of a camera or the laptop and just start talking without a researching the company. Why is that so important? This is important because obviously, if you are interested in a company which I suppose you are, then I think it comes just naturally that you research the company. Now that you look up their website, there are different ways to do it. And also what, what it also shows us that you are. It shows the recruiter that you've done your homework and doing your homework communicates that you are interested, that you are serious, that you are professional. These are these some limit subliminal messages, so to speak and know. A lot of messages and communication which you communicate without you even knowing it in all. But this is a very simple thing. It takes 1015 minutes. You know, you don't need to study their website from a2 to z. You find the website every, every professional company now these days has a website. If a company does not have a website, doesn't mean it's not professional about them these days and times. I think everybody needs to have a website because online presences as everything today.
6. Tips for researching the Company - Part 2: Yeah, You can check their website. What I always do is look the company up on LinkedIn. Linkedin is a great network. I hope that most of you are familiar with this professionally networking net side and that website. And yeah, that's what I do. Most of the companies are there, look them up, get some information. You know, look who is employed there. And you might find people who have worked there before or maybe you want to contact them, even get some more information. Now these are all smart things to do. Also check their Facebook site, Facebook account. Most of the companies are also on Instagram. For example, you know, I'm from the hospitality industry. I've been working for many, many large hotels during my time. During the past three decades. We know Hotel, it's all about food, guests, service rooms, swimming pool, It's nice locations, golf courses, et cetera. And that's a great opportunity for the Soviets to showcase their facilities and properties, and rooms and food and everything on Instagram, for example. So most of the old heads, I know they have an online presence also on Instagram and of course check their YouTube channel if they have one. Some of the companies they do have. I think YouTube is still in the kind of little bit of an infant stage for many companies. Not many companies do that. Most of the companies are on LinkedIn, but nevertheless where they are check all these platforms and you will get hopefully useful information. And this is also very important during your interview because you know, knowledge is power. And if you can use that knowledge during the interview, if you gather some very interesting information which you have found on, let's say their Facebook page, for example. Then you can impress the recruiter during the interview. And David C, hey, man, that's this guy or this girl is really knowledgeable. He really they really, she or he knows stuff about our company, which I would never have expected. C, This is how you already start to sell yourself, showing interests, being interested in audits. This subliminally communication and that will make a good impression.
7. Tips for researching the Recruiter - Part 1: Now the second step is for me what I usually do is when they invite you for an interview, be it online or face to face. You will know the name of the person who will conduct the interview. So I do the same. I look up this person on LinkedIn first. I tried to check their background. Where have they worked before, where they're working now, what's the role? You know, check their social media accounts, facebook, Instagram again, try to get a hold of them there to find out what they do. What does the life about some people, most of the people are on some of these platforms. Sometimes they're not easy to find, of course, because they're using different names or acronyms. But yeah, this is this is what I do. I try to get again information about the person. You never know how useful this information be in the interview. And also what I mentioned that already. When you are on LinkedIn, for example, the different buttons which you can click where you also can see who, who is employed there, you know. And yeah, you can just check check it out and then tried to contact these people and to get more information. And sometimes not happened to me that some of my former colleagues or friends worked for this company already. And then of course, I talked them to get more information about the company and everything.
8. Tips for researching the Recruiter - Part 2: Very important company website. Go there and look, especially
check the newsletter. That's, that's very important. This is what I always do because you want to be up
to date, you know what a, what a company is
up to at the moment and newsletters very important. And also, look what kind of adopt projects they
are involved and are they involved
in community works, charity, these kind of things. You know, every big company
these days is involved in some community activity
and also looked at up, get familiar with the facts. Newsletter as mentioned
already, costs. If you can kind of integrated
a new job interview, if you have the possibility
to talk about this, then it's again, it's
a selling point. You will make a big points. I'm not saying that
you have to, um, talk about the projects the company is doing
during your interview, but when the time is right and maybe you receive the
questions from the recruiter. What do we know
about our company? This question also will come. I can happen. And if you say, yeah, Not much, I know you are a let's
say, for example, I would apply for hotel
and any five-star hotel. And they would ask me, so what do we know
about our company, but do you know about how our
10 and I would say, yeah, I know your talents in Los Angeles and it's a five-star hotel and I
think it's a nice property. It looks nice from outside. And now you can say that, but I'm pretty sure that it
will never call you back in. Also, you will want
to come up with some insider information
about the company. And you only will find this insider information
on their website. And then you also might
have to look a little bit and not just look
at the pictures. Or I don't know what. Like I say, look,
look what they're doing in terms of charity
and community work. Because this is
very important for these hotels or companies these days that they imaged
and branding also, it's very people like to see that companies
now the states, are involved in
community work and so on and the eye and then
they have other opportunities. Look for other information
on the Internet. You know, anything what
is available and gathered the information because
this information is very important as a backup. When you go into your
next job interview.
9. Here is what I do - Part 1: Me, for example, as
mentioned, I'm a chef. I work in restaurants
or an OT in hotels mostly or tariffs. So when I have an interview, sketch it and upcoming one, then what I do is I
go, I do audiences, social media researchers,
LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, what we just talked about, but also what I do is I go, for example, on TripAdvisor. Tripadvisor is a well-known
online booking site where you can also
leave reviews. And I know from working in five-star hotels
international tests that the general managers and the hotel management
pays a great deal of attention to the
reviews on TripAdvisor, Booking.com, Expedia,
and all these kind of other online
booking platforms. And there you can get plenty
and great information, especially from guests who
did, who gave ratings, who rated the hotels and go, you can see a tendency, you can see a trend. You can see certain
consistency or inconsistency. And our hotel, for example, permanently rated for five-stars and you know what's going on. I also read the guest comments
because sometimes very interesting because the guests go really much into detail. Not many guests, but
some gas they do. And they even mentioned
staff names and mentioning how great the
breakfast buffet wars, for example, and how perfectly cooked the omelets
and things like that. Yeah, I'm reading this
and I'm noting i'm I'm noting these
things also down for my preparation for my interview because I can incorporate this in my induce this when I craft my answers in
all just as a backup. Because if I can manage
to mention during my during my interview when I answer a question from the recruiter that I read about this omelet
thing for example. Then again, The
recruiter will be very impressed and ask him saved. Oh my God, how does he know or how does she know
all these details? It's true and they know
it's true because they also read their own
Trip Advisor comments. Anyway. So that is a great thing to do. Again, another
round goes to you. You make big points
and yeah, it does. It's a smart thing
to do these days.
10. Here is what I do - Part 2: And of course, check
their website. Look at the rooms, look at the restaurants, get familiar with the menus somewhat heads the post menus
online on their website. So this is all information
what I normally do and gaba, in order to prepare myself
for the interviewers. Researching the company. I want to know what is going on, what is the hotel doing? What kind of different cuisines they offer in their hotel? For me, this is important. And of course, again, if you can show that you know a
little bit what's going on. The hotel anyway, I will
explain during the interview, The recruiter will anyway, explained to you what
the company is doing, what they are looking for and what they're
not looking for. But show them that you did your homework that you know about accompany that
you research them, that you have already
facts on hand, which you can show that
a good thing to do.
Marcel Riemer, Minimalist, Traveler & Chef
