--- title: Job Interview Skills description: This topic covers the preparation, communication strategies, and behavioral techniques required for successful employment interviews. Learners will understand how to articulate their experience, answer common questions, and present themselves professionally. category: personal-development subcategory: life-skills difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/job-interview-skills --- # Job Interview Skills This topic covers the preparation, communication strategies, and behavioral techniques required for successful employment interviews. Learners will understand how to articulate their experience, answer common questions, and present themselves professionally. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 2 Courses • 1 Websites ## Courses ### 1. Job Interview Preparation Ace your next job interview! This free Alison course covers key skills & techniques to help you confidently land your dream job. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://alison.com/course/job-interview-preparation **Tags:** job-interviews, interview-preparation, behavioral-questions, career-development ### 2. Successful Interviewing The goal of hiring managers is not just to hire people who need a job. It’s to hire people who believe in their organization, its mission and the work that’s involved in the job position. Every hiring manager knows: Hire people to do a job and they’ll work for your money. Hire people who believe in the work and they’ll work for their passion. And this is not a case of “fake it until you make it.” You have to be genuine about your belief in an organization and its mission. That means you have to have researched the industry, the company, and the position – and be able to show how your goals in life align with the company’s mission. Having done so will shape the impression you convey as a candidate, the way you answer traditional questions, and the way you demonstrate that you’re the right candidate for the job. This course is the second in a five-course specialization. We recommend that courses #1, #2 and #3 be taken in sequence. Course #4 - on resume and cover letter writing - can be taken in any sequence, while course #5 is the capstone for the specialization as a whole. This course can be thought of as "Interviewing I", while course #3 is "Interviewing II." Course #3 covers more advanced interview formats, including behavioral and situational interviews - along with the special case of telephone screenings. The logic for including telephone screenings - which happen at the start of the interview process - late in this specialization on interviewing is that those screenings, while happening early in the process, involve all the skills that you'll learn from course #1 through course #3. As for this course, it will teach you how to: 1. Do thorough research on a company of your choice. 2. Prepare for those critical first 3-5 minutes of an interview (when many recruiters say an interview is either won or lost). 3. Prepare for the all important "Tell Me About Yourself" question. 4. Prepare for traditional interview questions. 5. Use strategies for handling the salary question. We don't teach you salary negotiation techniques, but we do teach you how to avoid putting yourself in a weak negotiation position. 6. Prepare an elevator speech - all three variations. 7. Use persuasive speech techniques to present professional accomplishments and qualifications in a manner that conveys benefits to a potential employer. 8. Use persuasive speech techniques to convince a potential employer of your interest, motivation and preparation for a particular position. 9. Adapt your nonverbal communication style to the expectations of English-speaking interviewers. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/successful-interviewing **Tags:** courses, personal-development, career-development ## Websites ### 1. Ask a Manager Long-running advice column by Alison Green answering reader-submitted questions on job applications, cover letters, interviews, salary negotiation, and workplace conflict. Readers see how hiring managers actually evaluate candidates and get scripts for difficult conversations with employers. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.askamanager.org/ **Tags:** job-search, cover-letters, job-interviews, salary-negotiation, workplace-advice ## Books ### 1. Knock 'em Dead Job Interview **Author:** Martin Yate A job-interview guide explaining the reasoning behind more than 300 common interview questions and answers, with strategies for handling stress questions, phone screens, and salary negotiation, plus 100 questions candidates can ask to evaluate a prospective employer. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1440536791?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, personal-development, career-development ### 2. 60 Seconds and You’re Hired! **Author:** Robin Ryan Career counselor Robin Ryan's guide to interviewing, built around a 60-second pitch that summarizes your strongest qualifications. Readers learn to prepare answers to common and difficult questions, present accomplishments concisely, handle salary discussion, and follow up after interviews. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143112902?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, personal-development, life-skills --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/job-interview-skills