Should you hire an interview coach?

There’s tremendous amounts of advice you can find in books and online for how to answer job interview musings, and some of it says to practice your interview answers with a friend, or movie yourself so that you can play it back to see your weak spots.  It’s good advice.  It’s always harder to critique ourselves constructively, and you need both practice and feedback to improve your game.  The flaws in those particular plans are (1) a friend might just tell you what you wanna hear, and (2) if you’re critiquing a clip scene of yourself, the problem becomes “you don’t know what you don’t know”.

Here’s a thought:  If you really wanna improve your skills in something, you take lessons from an expert…in other words, get a coach.

Think about it.  Even pro athletes, with outstanding natural abilities and countless hours of practice, have coaches and trainers to give Them that one last boost over the top to excellence.

Role-playing interviews with an objective, experienced industry expert can give you so much of a boost in your interview skills that you not only do well in the interview, you crush it….just blow the hiring manager out of the water with your confidence, competence and style.  An interview coach can not only help you shape your answers to interview queries, she can help you spin difficult situations into positives (or at least neutrals), and can help you pinpoint and develop those intangible qualities that are ultimately job-winners.

I do provide interview help for candidates in sales and laboratory revenue, and maybe I’d be a nice fit for you–and maybe not.  Either way, it’s still a nice idea for you to get some outside help in this competitive position market, and I believe that it’s even more critical for entry-level candidates, who have the “lack of experience” issue working against them.

Discover someone who is an expert in your field that you are comfortable working with.  Hiring an interview coach is a small investment in yourself that will pay off big for you when you land the job of your fantasies.

Article courtesy of  Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Recruiter at the nationally
recognized laboratory and lab sales recruiting team of PHC Consulting.
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Should you hire an interview coach?