Job Interview Mastery SECRETS ( Job Search Insider Training to Pass and land the Job Offer ! )

1. Introduction: Welcome to the current course. Thank you for stopping by. Now within our organization, we had a recent hiring initiative to board members to join specific roles. Now with this current course, I'm going to walk you through the initiative, how it drove the decision making process to actually provide an offer for the nominated candidates, in which we're going to go through the various phases before the job interview. During the job interview and post the job interview up to the moment of handing over the offer. This will allow you to develop your own interview skills, acquire essential training in order to increase your chances of successfully getting that job offer following un interview, where you will learn from the key mistakes which have been made, you will learn about the key best practices that will allow you to successfully conduct a job interview. And distinguish yourself from other candidates. Now, this is a great course to help you get the best insights within the recruitment initiative. I'm going to walk you through our initiative, what drove the decision making process from the moment we've posted the job all the way to actually selecting the candidates. So this is a very, very powerful and valuable course. And make sure that you join us. Take a look at the various course details, which will supplement your professional development, and I look forward to having you join our community. 2. Your Project: Your project for the current course revolves around applying the key points that you have learned, whether before the interview process or during or post the interview process. Take a look at the course description. I'm going to leave you a checklist. This checklist is very essential. You're going to be using it to help you prepare for any upcoming interview where you will keep in mind points and you're going to avoid other points such that you will be increasing the chances of successfully getting an offer after the interview. 3. The Recuitment Iniative: Welcome back. So within my organization, we recently had a recruitment initiative recruitment campaign in which we were looking for qualified candidates to fill specific roles. Within that process, we've noticed key qualities, key steps that the successful candidates share in common. And this current course, the whole point is, is to provide you with those key insights from within as a recruiting aunt, such that you will be able to adapt and apply those practices to your own job hunt or job searching efforts. So we've divided the current course to various phases where we're going to take a look at the before the job interview. What are the key things which popped and make sure that we actually pick a certain candidate During the job interview, what happened? What are the key essentials or the key driving forces within the interview process that actually led us to pick a certain candidates and post the interview process, what happened as well to validate and confirm that we have chosen the right candidate, up to the moment we've actually presented an offer to those candidates? Now, keeping in mind that this is a very powerful course because you will be learning from the insider view. Often when we're learning about job interview skills or job training, you're learning about it from the external end, where you're taking a look at the best practices strategies, how to go about preparing for the job interview. Now we're going to provide you with the reverse view from the recruitment end, how the recruiters are taking a look at your profile, how are they evaluating the a candidacy for a certain position. What are the key things that will increase your chances with regards to the competition. Keeping in mind that when we took the initiative to initiate the recruitment campaign, we've had hundreds upon hundreds of applicants. The amount of applicants that provided the resume, the CV for the job posts that we have made, we quite a lot. So if we're taking a look at numbers, you're trying to increase your chances of getting selected. So in order to do so, you should stand out Think about it as numbers, one out of 100 or two out of 100. That's a lot of competition. And some posts and some positions, they have over 1,000 applicants. So you could be the best candidates, the best match, the best fit for the job. Yet, you're not able to stand down because you're stuck in a pool, you're stuck in an atmosphere surrounded by noise, which makes it difficult for the recruitment and end to navigate and find you. So we're going to provide you with those skills, that training, those essentials to keep in mind to help you equip yourself with what's needed to actually stand out, Excel, and land that job. So we're going to transition through various phases. We're going to kick things off with the before the interview. When we initiated the job post. What stood out from various candidates. Then we're going to transition to during the interview, what happened that led to the confirmation of this is the right candidate and post the interview, what happened after the job interview, which confirmed that we've made the right choice and we're going to present an offer for that candidate. Let's get things started. 4. What is in Common : Before the job interview, we've noticed that the best candidates, the best match for the job vacancies that we have posted and for our recruitment initiative. They had certain actions that they've taken, not qualities, not traits. We didn't interview the individuals yet. We didn't interview the professionals yet, but they shared certain practices. And the key important things to keep in mind, we're going to go through them one at a time. Well, they started by analyzing the job description. When we made a post about a job description that we're hiring for a certain position, they have made sure that they've actually read the job description. They're familiar with the job description, and they think truly that they are a match for the job description. That simple act increases your confidence levels and makes sure that whatever initiative that you do from this point onwards is going to be in your favor because literally, you are a perfect match for that job, and you possess all of the skills needed. Which is going to be translated within the interviewing process. Nothing is worse than applying for a job that you have no idea about. You haven't read the job description. For the recruiter to find out within the interview that you are completely clueless, this will ly diminish the success rate for getting an offer post a job interview. The key take from this current point is, before you apply for a job, take a look at the job description, make sure that you have read it properly, and it's actually a genuine match to your own set of skills because you're going to save yourself a lot of time. If you're not a match, like you genuinely know that this is not the job that you're a perfect match for, and you just simply submitting your resume for the sake of application. This will be translated within your job interview, and that will be picked up on, which is going to diminish the success rate, like I've mentioned, at the same time, is going to be wasting your time and recruiters time. So start things off by taking a look at the job description. Does it match your aspirations? Does it fit your requirements? Do you have any questions about the job description? Write them down. Prepare ahead of time for the interview. Do some research about that specific job in case you do have questions that you're going to be using within that job interview process? 5. The Starting Point for Success: Following the review of the job description, it's important to research the company. Often when we had those interviews, we've found out that we have candidates who have no idea about the job description, what is the role requirements? What are we looking for and the nature of the work that we do? In addition to being completely oblivious about the a company that we have. What do we offer, what are our services, what area do we work in, and all of these essentials that gives an indication to the recruiter that you're actually interested in being part of the team that you're actually interested in joining the company. You're interested in the role itself, rather than having no idea about the job, no idea about the company, and then you present your resume and your CV and hope for the better. Again, preparation is key in this case. We've talked about the importance of reading the job description. It's very important to research the company as well for multiple reasons. Whether or not you're actually interested in that industry, or you don't really want to work in the industry, or you do have a lot of questions in mind that you would like to ask within the interview process, which leads us back to being prepared, doing your own job before the interview. Because once you transition to the interview process, and you have no idea about the job description and you have no idea about the company that you're going to be applying for and potentially working with, the success rate plummets because you're not prepared and recruiters are going to be picking up on that. Like I've witnessed those effects hands on. It could be a really great candidate, but they are not going through the proper sequence of the job preparation. They're not reading the job description. They are not actually preparing themselves for the job. They have no idea about the company that they're going to be working with. They're just simply applying, and that just simply excludes a sense of carelessness. That you're too lazy to do a job, that you're too lazy to research for the job. You just simply want to apply and see how things work out. Which is not proper. You need to exude the impression that you are on top of your game and that is easily picked up on within the interview process. Keep this key point in mind as you are preparing for an interview. You read the job description, then you're going to be researching the company to understand the practices of the company, the nature of the industry, key personnel who are actually working in the company to help you prepare for your upcoming interview. 6. Crucial Step for Your Success: You've done all of these key points. You've researched the company, you have read the job description, and you find out that this is a great fit for you. Prepare your resume accordingly. Most probably you've heard the saying, you do have only one chance to make a great impression, and this is it. We've seen of lot of resumes, lot of CVs. If you dig deep within that resume, the candidate is a great fit. Yet, from the first impression, the CV or the resume is poorly made. The fonts are not consistent, the font sizes are not consistent, the spacing is not consistent, the graphics, the coloring, the presentation, the image location, all of these factors, they play a role in developing a solid impression. We've received resume, which seemed that they actually at one point, they might be handwritten. Which is quite complicated to analyze as you are looking at a pool of 100 plus candidates. If you present a resume which is poorly constructed, you are lurly sabotaging your efforts because you didn't make it to the interview process yet. You are still being considered with comparison to other candidates. Keeping in mind, you're not the only resume being submitted. This is not your only CV being submitted. You do have other competitors with you who could be less qualified than you are, but they've managed to make a great impression. So when you are preparing for the job interview, take a look at the CV. These are key pointers to keep in mind, and we might create a separate course exclusively for how to craft a proper CV. So make sure that you follow the profile to stay up to date with all of these releases and future updates. So when you are creating your CV, Here's some key important pointers. Take a look at the job description. Often, large organizations, they do have what we call as an ATS, which is an applicant tracking software. Before the recruiter actually takes a look visually and manually at your CV, your resume is going to be passing through a scanner, which has a software. That's going to be picking up on certain words that has been input into that software and going to filter your CV from all of the candidates. So take a look at the job description. This should be your starting point. Take a look at the job description. What are the key responsibilities? And then take those action verbs like manage, execute, develop, plan, lead, analyze. All of these action words are part of the responsibilities. You're going to be using them to help you fine tune the experience that you have at your current role, or add them to your summary of your resume to help you stand out even better. These are key important points. Make sure that you're taking notes, you writing them down. These are very, very powerful, and they really make or break your job preparation efforts. You've prepared your resume, you've taken a look at the job description, you've got an essential keywords, essential phrases, essential responsibility indicators, and you have tailored your resume to match those responsibility requirements. Take a look at the visual aesthetics, our defaults consistent. Does it look organized. You have clear sections, you do have the summary, you have your work experience, you do have your references, it's quite structured. You do have a decent template. The template is quite proper and avoid using images as part of a template, where you do have a lot of pie charts and a lot of graphics. If a company is using ATS software, it's not going to be filtered out, rather than your resume will be just simply thrown away that it doesn't match any of the requirements. It's a software at this point. So once you pass that point, It will go to the recruiter, and they will be taking a look at your resume, evaluating that resume after the filtration process. And this is where the whole graphics, the arrangement, the image, the layout, the fonts, all of these things, they verify the selection and the impression which has been made. So these are key essentials to keep in mind as you're preparing your resume. Make sure that your resume is either in PDF or Docs. Don't use images, don't use PowerPoint, don't use whatever template GPEG, whatever it is. Make sure it's either Docs or PDF word document, because these are the most commonly used templates for ATS softwares. At the same time, these are the most commonly used e mail attachment documents, which will make sure that the size of the document is fine. There are no issues with the size of documents, and it will be easily transferred to the recipients. These are the key intakes to keep them in mind. So we've transitioned at this current point from no post whatsoever. We've got a job offering. We read the job description, then we have analyzed the company, researched the company. Then we learned about the importance of quality CV preparation to allow us to actually apply for the job and increase the chances of our interview process. Up to this point, the interview did not take place. You are preparing yourself for the interview. You are making sure that you stand out from other competitors for that role. So keep in mind all of these key pointers that we have taken a look at, make sure that you replay them over and over again. Whenever you have a job interview, you're planning to apply for a job, write them down. Watch this course over and over again. This is a very, very powerful course equipped with years worth of experience. It will save you time. It will save you effort. So at this keypoint, at this current key part of the course, we have covered important key points. The importance of preparation before actually conducting the interview through CV preparation, through company research, and through job description analysis. 7. Standing Out from the Competition: So you've submitted your resume, and you would like to actually stand out. You do like to just simply be present, just simply try to put your foot forward and try to distinguish yourself compared to the competition, and how would you do that by leaving an impression, and how would you leave an impression? Walk through the process with me. You've read the job description. You have researched the company. You've prepared your resume, keeping in mind the job responsibility from the job description, and you make sure that your resume is a perfect fit for the job description. Now, to add the cherry on top of the cake, you need to follow up. Now, the mechanism for following up could be through reaching out to the recruiter, could be a Linked in, on e mail, or a phone call, where you express that you have made the effort to apply for the job and that you're interested in the job, and you look forward to hearing back from the company. Many candidates when we had the recruitment campaign, didn't actually take that step. But the ones who actually got the offer at the end, we've noticed that all of them took that initiative. And that was kind of surprising. Like I've mentioned, we're sharing the insider view, the driving process for the decision making. How we actually trans just jumped from interviewing someone to actually presenting an offer and having that individual join our organization. So when that happened, we've noticed that the interview the individuals who took part of the interview, they had certain common grounds, and one of them is the leading an impression. They tried to reach out to their cers. They tried to engage on social media, whether Linkn, YouTube, they send an e mail irrespectively, highlighting their interest, sharing their insights about the job post, or reaching out through a message or an e mail or a phone call, expressing that they have applied for the job and they're looking forward to get a feedback and how they are a great fit for the job. This liarly allowed them to stand out from the competition because if we assume you have 100 candidates, one or two candidates have taken that step, and those candidates were the ones to get the offer at the end, which was quite surprising to us, because we didn't give it too much thought. We were going through, let's say, the traditional approach for recruitment, where we have a job posts, take a look at the CVs, host a couple interviews, and we evaluate the candidate. But once we are reverse engineering the process of the decision making process for those candidates during the interview sessions, we've noticed that all of these candidates who have been picked after the interview process, all of them they went through that sequence. They managed to reach out after the application, through a linked in message, through an e mail, through a phone call. Simply commenting on a post of the job of the job itself, mentioning that this is a great job post, and I think I'm a great fit and I've applied for the job, and I look forward to hearing back from you and I look forward to the interview process. That provides a positive vibe that helps you leave an impression that helps you stand out at the same time, you'll be able to notify the recruitment end on the spot that someone has sent a message. Someone has left a comment. Someone has liked a post, and let's wonder who is that person. I is actually a candidate, X Y Z for that job and is going to be interviewed for a job. So you've managed to leave an impression compared to other competitors who are part of the candidacy pool. For that specific role. Up to this point, we are dealing with the before the job interview. Keep these things in mind, and hopefully they help me out because they surely helped out a lot of professionals out there, get that job. 8. Post Selection tactics: We've concluded the segment of the preparation prior to the job interview. Let's say now you are call for the interview, and you need to prepare for the interview itself. You've been selected as part of the applicants, and you're going to be interviewed to see if you're going to be a grave fit for the role or not. Now, the first thing you need to keep in mind, when you are being asked to join an interview is timely attendance. When you have a specific time frame for the interview, and you have set an appointment for a meeting, let's say, whether online or going to be passing to the head office and all of these things. Attend on time. Don't be late. Be 5 minutes early. If you are early, just for 5 minutes, it shows that you're very punctual. It shows that you're quite interested in the job post. It shows that you're quite organized and systematic. These are essential skills that every organization is looking for. 9. Important Element within the Interview Process: Once the interview starts, you shouldn't be professional. You should be having a professional attire, a professional outfit. Conduct yourself in a professional manner. Try to communicate professionally, B present, make sure that you do have a presence within the interview, such that you are going to leave a mark. For the company, for the recruiter, for the hiring, that yes, we remember this candidate. He stood out because he asked a specific question, or he expressed a certain initiative, or he knows certain aspects of the job responsibilities, which give him a leverage or they possess a certain skill that they managed to communicate. So be professional, dress professionally, attend professionally, and communicate professionally within the job interview. And if you are having a job interview online, here's a pro tip. Make sure that you're sitting in a place which is quiet. You have clear sound, whether a microphone or just a clear ambience, where there's no disturbance. Minimal background movement or background noise to avoid distractions and make sure that you are presenting yourself for an online interview, the same way you would present yourself for an offline interview, where you dress up properly, you're going to show up on time, and you're going to be professional with the way that you're communicating because this will show that you take that initiative seriously. And nothing is worse than having candidates just simply coming for the interview with a hoodie, simply because they're having an online interview. They attend the interview session with a hoodie and you do have movement in the background, a lot of noise in the background, and then all of a sudden, they have to pause the interview session, or they need to disconnect and just simply reconnect. All that creates turbulence. It shows lack of preparation and lack of professionalism. And every organization requires someone who is prepared and who is professional. 10. Where Many Failed: Communication goes a long way, whether before the job interview or during the job interview. When you are part of the session, communicate, articulate, use words, full sentences, avoid just simply replying with yes or no. We've seen this a lot, and personally, when I was conducting the interviews process for multiple candidates, when I'm asking a question related to a specific job responsibility. Some of the feedback or the answers, there were just simply yes or no, without explaining the process, without explaining how things should be done or how they would be able to do or tackle a specific task. Keeping in mind, the interview process is more of getting to know the candidate, to assess the candidate, and just simply confirm the impression which has been made within the resume submitted. When you are communicating, be expressive, Don't talk too much, but don't talk at all is completely worse. Literally, both of them, they are devastating in terms of the success rate for your interview. If you talk too much or you're not talk at all, just be yourself. Be professional. If you have a question, ask if you're receiving a question, avoid simply replying with yes or no, and that's it. Where every single question, the only response that you have is yes. Another question? No. Yes, no. Well, that does not portray the ability to communicate and communication skills are very powerful. If you are the best candidate for the job, and you're not able to communicate how great are you for the job, you will not get that job. Keep that in mind. This is a very, very powerful insight. When you are preparing for a job interview, communication is key, especially during the interview process. The key take from this current lecture is at this current point, communicate effectively. If you are receiving questions, try to articulate answers which are professional, straightforward and concise and avoid saying, yes or no, as the go to option when you're answering or responding to questions. 11. It Goes Both Ways: Ask if you do have a lot of questions, you do have a certain queries that you would like to clarify, ask within the interview. When you are part of the interview process is often taken as the recruiter is going to be asking, and I'm on the responding end where I have just simply to answer. Well, this is not the case. It's a communication line. It's back and forth. The company side is going to be asking you a question, and you are expected to ask some questions. There's a point behind this, which is interest. If you are asking questions about the role, if you're asking questions about the responsibilities, it expresses a level of research that you have made, a level of thinking that you're taking part of to help you analyze whether the job is a best fit for you or not. And it expresses interest within your presence, that you're part of this initiative, that you're interested and you're looking forward to getting positive results. Because what often happens is candidates who are being interviewed, they do not ask questions related to the job or to the expectations, whether time hour, whatever it is. And all of a sudden, once the interview is concluded, the recruiter is going to be bombarded with e mails, queries about things that the candidate is have managed actually to ask at this current point in time after the interview has elapsed, which raises the question, why those queries or questions were not asked during the interview session. This wastes time, and often it minimizes the impact of the interview because once the interview has elapsed and you're asking key questions about the role, then what's the point of you attending the interview? Because at this current point, everything should be clear for both ends, the hiring end, and you, the applicant. So ask as many questions that come to mind, clarify everything. Which leads us back to the first key points that we've talked about, which is the preparation. You need to be prepared, research the job, research responsibilities. The companies have a list with all of these questions, and actually bring that list with you. And it looks quite nice and professional Excuse me. I have to have a question, I wrote them down. I need you to help me answer those questions. It's a very nice gesture. It's a very nice approach. It's a very professional approach, which will save you time, save the hiring and time as well. And it will help you confirm whether this job is a best fit for you or not. 12. Be Present like you Mean it: You're part of the interview session, try to engage with the interviewer, try to engage with the recruiter. Ask about the company, ask about the activities, ask about the role, ask about the responsibilities that you might be having. Have the recruiter share their experience with you. Try to engage in a communication which seems professional. Friendly, which expresses the willingness from your end to be part of such a team and how you're looking forward to be actually part of the team. Nothing is worse than we have seen within the interviewing process. We've received multiple profiles of great candidates. On pen and paper, they are a great fit for our role. They are a perfect match for our job. Yet Once you go for the interview process, surprise, surprise, many of the things from the resume do not actually match the sequence of questions or the sequence of steps that should confirm this within the interview process. And one of the key takes that we have noticed that you should be expressing the willingness to be part of the interview, that you're looking forward to be part of the interview. Be some candidates, whenever they show up to the interview, It's like they don't want to be here. They don't want to be part of the interview, or they are just simply being there for the sake of going through the process, and they have no energy whatsoever. They have no drive whatsoever to be part of the organization. It's just simply one of those interviews, one of those applications, and let's see how things go. Well, unfortunately, the recruiting end will pick up on that, that this individual, that this candidate, even though they possess the skills, but they are not expressing any initiative to be part of the team. They don't want to be part of the team, just simply attending for the sake of attending because they have been invited for an interview, and they are just simply looking forward to having an interview and see how things work out later on. But in order for things to work out later on and to get a job offer, guess what? You get to put some effort. You got to put some work. I've been on both ends. I've been on the end where I'm interviewing people and I've been on the end where I've been interviewed earlier at my career. So I'm sharing my experience with you based on my insights from both ends. If you are recruiting someone for a job, you're able to pick up on their willingness to be part of the interview process. And if you are being recruited from the job, you're able to see if basically the recruiter is picking up on that, that they are seeing your effort. They are seeing the willingness of you being part of the interview process and the drive that you have to be part of an organization. At the end of the day, we're all humans, and we're able to pick up on these things, regardless of the process, regardless of the sequence of interviewing that you would like to call it, we're humans at the end of the day. If you are attending an interview with a fellow human who's not interested in being in the interview, you're going to be able to pick up on that. On the other hand, if you are going to attend an interview with a human being who is very interested in being part of the role or the organization, yet they do not possess the skills, but they're expressing their interest to learn and acquire and develop, you are going to support them along the way in terms of joining the company and give them that push. So you get the idea up to this current point. Be willing to be part of an interview. Join the interview, make sure that you're professional, make sure that you are looking forward to the interview and make sure that the interviewer or the recruiter is able to see that, that you're interested in working with the organization, you're interested in the role, you've done your research, you're prepared resumes pot on, and all of these pieces of the puzzle will be connected together. And eventually, in addition to all of the skills I'm going to be teaching you right now will help transmute that into a little job offer, and hopefully it will make your career better. Like I've mentioned, I'm sharing with you all the common grounds for the successful candidates that managed to get the job offer from my organization to help them transition and be part of my team. And all of them, had certain commonalities. And I'm sharing with you these common grounds to help you develop your own professional job hunt as well. And hopefully, these steps up to this current point, they are helping you out. Make sure that you share the current course with fellow professionals who might need this helpful or leave us your feedback if you'd like to learn about something else, or you do have specific questions. We're more than glad to engage with our members of the community, which is quite global, and we look forward to supporting you on that as well. So let's keep the wheels. 13. Harness Your Powers: Showcase your skills. This is very powerful. When you are applying for a job. Often, there are specific set of skills being interviewed, let's say, or the recruiting end is looking for those specific skills. But if you do possess additional skills that after the job review process, the job description process you went through, and you see that, you do have extra skills that you could add to the organization, whether you're able to perform a certain task. Or use a certain software, or you have a certain experience with a certain project which is related and could be helpful. Make sure that you highlight this within the interview, which is really, really, highly appreciated. It shows initiative. It shows drive. It shows creativity. When you are being part of the interview process, And all of a sudden, you paused the interview and you mentioned to the recruiter that I've seen the job description, and I do have this and that experience with this on that software or that project. And I believe I could be an asset. I could support the growth of the organization by adding those skills if you are interested actually to hire those skills to be part of your team. That looks and sounds great. Because you are being interviewed for a certain role, and then you showcase the skills that you have, which could be supplementary to the current role in addition to future roles or responsibilities. This will help you stand out as someone who has multiple skills, multiple abilities that could be helpful to the growth of the organization, especially in today's world, being specialized in a certain key skill could be problematic. Maybe in olden times, let's say ten, 15 years ago, if someone works in a certain field and they possess and know that field inside out and they possess all of the skills within that field, that's quite valuable because whenever a company is hiring for an individual, they are very specific. They need those skills with a certain number of years for experience. However, In today's dynamic world, where the emphasis is on continuous growth and development. If you do have multiple skills which are essential, this is a great plus in your profile. Make sure that you highlight this in your resume, and you highlight this within your interview. Why? For the following reasons? First, it shows interest. Two, it shows drive. T, it shows the willingness to participate and you're a team player and you're looking forward to develop the organization with the rest of the members. Four, it shows capabilities. You're able to actually execute multiple domains, using various skills that you have learned and acquired. This is very, very powerful. At a later stage, this gives you, this is a protip. At a later stage, this will allow you to request easily, let's say, six months when you've been aborted, to request for a salary increase, request for promotion or raise or bonus. Why? Because you've been a powerful contributor to the organization. So keep this in mind. If you do have multiple skills which are essential for the role, make sure that you highlight them within the interview process. 14. Setting Expectations: Towards the end of the interview. Always, always, always set expectations. In terms of, when will you be getting a feedback? Don't leave things quite open in the air and you have no idea when you might be hearing back from the hiring end. As you go through the interview process, following the key points that we've talked about, as you head towards the end of the interview process, be quite professional about it and just simply ask the question. It has been following the statement. It has been a great interview, and I look forward to hearing back from you. If possible, can you please tell me when should I be expecting a feedback? When would I be able to hear back in terms of the success of my interview whether I made it or not? And that will give the recruiter an indication that you're quite serious about the job, and you're looking forward to join as soon as possible. And every single recruiting initiative has a certain timeline, whether one week, one month, respectively. That way, you'll able to set your expectations right when you would be able to hear back from the recruiting end, and this will facilitate the upcoming steps that you need to discuss or that we need to discuss after the interview process. This will set the grounds for your upcoming following up mechanisms and keeping up to date with any changes regarding your job candidacy. 15. It's Not Over Yet: So we've established some key important points before the job interview. During the job interview, and congratulations, you have successfully completed the job interview. Now what? Post job interview, you could actually do extra steps or go the extra mile to help you seal the deal. If you follow everything I've told you up to this current point, you are going to increase your chances of success of landing that job offer dramatically. Why? Because this is the insider's view of the decision making process from the hiring end. Like I've mentioned, we had a great campaign recruiting campaign as part of my organization over the past couple of weeks, where we had hundreds and hundreds of candidates from across the globe. And all of the successful candidates have managed to get job offers. All of them, they had common grounds, common tactics, common strategies, common actions, whatever you want to call it, but everything was in common between them. I'm simply presenting all of these things for you in the current course. Make sure that you take notes, watch this course over and over again because this is very powerful, and will surely have an impact on your job search. So post the interview process, now what? So we'll just sit down and wait? Of course not. Once you're done with the interview process, keeping in mind, you have set clear expectations when you when we expect a feedback, when you should know whether or not you made it or not. Let's say, after the interview process has been concluded, the recruiter has told you that you should expect a feedback tomorrow after tomorrow. Just wait till then one day or two days. After that confirmed time frame has been established. Once that period of time passes by, then, these are the extra steps that you could take. Send up a follow up e mail. That it has been a pleasure being part of the interview and as per the confirmed set date for a feedback. I haven't heard back yet. So if possible to provide me with a feedback for my job interview success, whether I made it or not. That's one. Try to contact the recruiter directly if you're able to through a call, through a message, stating the same thing. This will express a certain level of seriousness from your end, that you're really looking forward to get a feedback, looking forward to actually join the organization, and you're eager to support the growth of the organization. This will further facilitate the process of your interview, and this will further enhance the success rate for you to get that job offered. In addition, be present across social media. If you notice that after the period of time has elapsed, and you haven't heard back from the company, and the company, whether on Lincon, on YouTube, whatever it is, whatever social media presence that they have. Try to be present, like a certain post, engage with the comments and try to send the poster a message, this will show that you are up to date with the movement or the updates on the social network for the company, in terms of the activities, which expresses a level of interest, drive, willingness to be part of such a team, This will further give that, let's call it the sublime or the subliminal push to help you get that job offered. So once the time frame has elapsed, one day to two days, you haven't heard back from the company, and if you've managed to do everything that I've taught you up to this current point, you should be able to get that offer within one to two days from the completion of your interview or after the confirmation of that date. The recruiter is going to be more than looking forward to having such a valuable, powerful member joined the organization. But let's say, things do happen. You haven't heard back from the organization or the hiring end, and it's no surprise that sometimes the recruiter forgets. Or things do happen at an organizational level which delay the process. So you following up on that case is a great, great plus for you. Often it's frowned upon that you don't want to sound quite too eager or you're pushing quite too hard to get that job role. Of course. You don't want to sound quite eager and desperate for the job role. That's quite negative because this reduces the quality of the job offer that you might be getting, which is a subject for a different discussion, a later point. But you should put that minimal extra effort that I was expecting a feedback, but I haven't heard back yet. Simply following up and looking forward to your confirmation. Have a great day. That's it. Simple, straight to the point. So keep this in mind. You have done your interview process. You are just simply following up, whether on social media, you leave a comment or post, send a message, send an e mail, or just simply pick up the phone and call the Cooter or the company directly, and you can just simply tell them that I was expecting a confirmation or a feedback within the confirmed time frame as part of the interview process. Yet I haven't heard anything yet. So I just wanted to follow up and hopefully everything is quite fine. I'm looking forward to your feedback. And they will surely give you a feedback, whether or not you've made to the actually end where you're going to receive a job offer, or they are in the process of actually creating that job offer for you, and they will keep you up to date when it's done and they're going to be sending to you or any indicators of changes are going to be communicated for you to help you set your expectations correctly. So keep that in mind. These are phases that you need to go through before, during and post the job interview. Now we're going to transition to the moment where successfully you've gotten the job offer. Now, there are key things to keep in mind, once you receive a job offer, which we're going to be highlighting next. Often candidates they believe once they got the job offer, that the interview is done, and that's it. Well, don't rush. Make sure that everything is aligned with your expectations at the same time with the company's expectations. So let's transition to that. 16. Ready to Sign the Offer ?: Gratulations up to this point, you've managed to get that job offer. So what should you be doing next? Just simply sign up the offer and send it back. Of course not. Read the offer, make sure that whatever has been discussed during the interview is actually presented to you in a job offer. At the same time, make sure that all of the conditions within the job offer are in line with your own expectations, are in line with your own set of responsibilities and job description. Again, in accordance with the job interview. This is very important. Now, when you're evaluating the job offer, keep in mind, be flexible. Companies appreciate flexibility in terms of the way, for example, that you'd like to get paid, the way that you would like to carry on your tasks, Or if you have a certain requirements, don't make it quite too complicated to join the hiring. Even if you're a great candidate, but if you are always coming up with obstacles rather than solutions, this will eventually jeopardize the offering that you have, and it might be revoked. Yes, it's possible where job offer could be presented to a candidate, and then it gets revoked. Why? Because some conditions are not being met, or some complications arise. These complications could be quite variable. But there are common things to keep in mind. First of all, if you haven't done the proper research about your responsibilities for the job or within the job interview, you haven't asked the right questions. It is quite frowned up upon to be asking those questions when you are handed an offer. You're handed an offer for a remote job, the post clearly says, this is a remote job, then you're handed an offer for a remote job. All of a sudden, you're asking a question, Well, I'm not interested in remote jobs, and I thought this is an offline site job. Well, automatically by default, you're no longer qualified for that job offering, and you're no longer the right candidate for the post because your expectations are completely of the requirements. So keep that in mind. You don't want to waste your own time and you don't want to waste the recruiting end time. So when you are going through the process, if you start things correctly, you will be arriving at the shore with the right expectations, with the correct offer which matches your responsibilities. Be give you a sneak pick future wise, what could happen. You might sign the offer, then join the organization, and then all of a sudden, clash begins, where the hiring company, they have hired you for a certain set of requirements, responsibilities, working hours, time frame, pay rate, whatever conditions which have been confirmed and established within the interview, post the interview, and within the offer. And all of a sudden, because you haven't done your job in terms of research or preparing for the interview, asking questions in the interview, reviewing the offer properly, you haven't done that. And then your expectations are completely off and doesn't align with the company's expectations. And what happens next? It's a matter of time before you get quite too stressed out, you leave the job, you look for another job. Once again, you've wasted your own time and the company's time. Start things off correctly in order to get to the right results. Review your offer once, twice, three times, four times. In case you do have any questions or comments, watch the next lecture, how to communicate those concerns. 17. Just Incase You need Clarity: Previous lecture, we've learned that it's important to assess the job offer and keep in mind key important takes that you should be having at the back of your mind as you take a look at the job offer. But let's say, the offer is not a perfect fit. You do have concerns, you do have questions. How should you communicate that? When you are going through the offer, write these things down because when you're communicating back, you don't want to have back and forth communication on something which should have been established and confirmed earlier. Write these things down on a piece of paper. Your concerns, one at a time, then draft an e mail, send them back to the hiring end that thank you for sending the current offer. It's a pleasure to actually go through the offer, and I'm looking forward to being part of the organization. But kindly assist me with clarifying the following key points. Write them down, one, two, three, four, and avoid asking questions that you've already gotten answers to within the interview. If within the interview, you've asked about the working hours, and you've gotten an answer, and then you asked the same question within the feedback process from the offer, it would not look proper because you have went through the interview process. You've asked that question. It has been noted down. It has been translated to an offer, and then you're asking the same question about that offer, which you have requested in the first place. This does not reflect in a proper fashion. It doesn't look nice because it shows the recruitment end that you were part of the interview, but you were literally not that present within the interview. Keeping in mind, once you get an offer, it doesn't mean that the deal is sealed and that's it. You're a couple yards away from finishing up that game, but you need to make sure that you actually successfully cross that touchdown line and get the job offer and board the company and start working. So keep that in mind. Have your questions clearly mentioned, clearly stated, be flexible, try to be accommodating to certain requirements, certain clauses. This is very important because if you are very fixated on things which do not make a difference, yet you are trying to tailor things in in the way that you like them to 100%. Well, it's not going to happen. Keep that in mind. So in order to successfully increase the potential to get that job offer on board the company, be flexible, and this will come by default if you've prepared properly in the previous steps before the interview and during the interview. But things do happen. Things do skip your mind, and you go through the offer. Things might pop out, which you haven't talked up, which haven't been talked about within their interview, and you would like to clarify. And that's perfectly okay. But make sure that you minimize the communication streak to one line of communication and one flow, which is one e mail, get the feedback. Confirm it, whether or not you're going to go for the offer, make sure that's quite clear. That's it. So avoid having back and forth what I would like to call as Ping Pong communication, where you just have one question goes forward, then you have another question, then another question, another question, which is quite frustrating on the recruiting end to deal with the candidate which is not able to go through an offer from one time and just simply pass on their concern at once, which is quite discouraging. And it makes the company or the recruiting end, we think whether or not they've made the right choice with that specific candidate because that process shows lack of organization, lack of awareness, a lack of consistency on all of these are big, big, big warning signs for companies trying to hire candidates. So when you're reviewing the process, be quite organized, be quite concise. If you do have any questions, write them down, send an e mail to recruiting end that you acknowledge the receiving of the offer. Yet you do have certain concerns, and you look forward to the feedback, one, two, three, four, five, One e mail, and that's it. You haven't heard back from them, give them a call, follow up e mail. Which will show that you're willing to be part of the team, yet you do have certain concerns that require clarification, which is perfectly okay. So up to this current point, you have considered the offer, you've evaluated the offer, and everything is perfectly fine. Then you're going to send back the offer, which has been confirmed from your end, and you are ready now to transition to a new organization to a new team and Excel within your career. 18. Wrapping up For now: And I truly hope that you found this current course really helpful. The way I found it quite joyful to make, because I'm sharing real life practice, real life experience, which helped others. They were proven by the success of our team members who are who used to be candidates applying for the jobs. And now there are team members as part of my organization, and they are quite effective. They're quite contributing to the growth of the organization. And all of them, like I've mentioned, they shared those common grounds. All of them, they shared all of these key skills and traits which helped them secure the job offer. Join my team. All of those skills, I'm sharing them with you, passing on the insider's view on what worked, how it worked, and the entire process from A to Z from receiving a job post to actually landing that job offer and what drove the decision making process from our end. And I truly hope that you found it beneficial, and it would provide value to your own professional endeavors and your own professional pursuits, whether you are looking for a job, looking forward to change your career, or you're looking forward to go from one company to the other, or you have been off the market for quite too long. You do have multiple members of our community who have been providing us with great feedback in terms of the benefits that they found in our courses. So make sure that you stay up to Follow my profile, and look forward to having you as part of my community, which is quite global and hopefully, we'll see you in the upcoming future releases and upcoming courses till then.