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answers and questions should stress benefits you are likely to
provide for the employer. When preparing for the interview, be sure
to use an employer-centered language of benefits.

4. Support your accomplishments with specific examples
illustrating what you did.

Whenever you male a claim of your accomplishments, it will both
be more believable and better remembered if you will cite specific
examples or supports for your claims. Tell the interviewer some-
thing about a business-related situation where you actually used
this skull and elaborate about the outcome. If it actually occurred on
the job, stress the benefits to the company where you were em-
ployed. Try to identify four or five good work-related examples of
your accomplishments which you may be able to share with the
interviewer. Avoid tallung about “what happened” when you
worked in another organization. Your story needs a subject - you
- and an outcome - a benefit or performance.

5. Identify what you enjoy doing.

There are a lot of slulls you may have honed to the point of
excellence, but do you want to spend the better part of your work
life engaging in this activity? When he was 95, George Burns
claimed one reason he was still going strong and worlung a rather
demanding schedule was that he loved his work! A secretary may
have excellent typing slulls but want to move up and out of
consideration for another similar position. If this is the case, he
doesn’t want to stress his typing skull - even though he may be very
good at it. Slulls you really enjoy using are the ones you are most
likely to continue to use to the benefit of both you and the
employer.

6. Know about your ”field of dreams“ by conducting re-
search on important job-related issues.

Before you go to your first job interview you should have conducted
research on the field in which you plan to work. Though some of
your information may come from printed materials and electronic