To Answer Interview Questions, Use A Car

To answer interview questions, use a CAR This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories Tricky, answering interview questions. Half the time, we are all over the board with our answers. And when we practice answering interview questions, we don’t know how to start. Before you can mess with the rules, you have to know the rules. A good rule for answering an interview question is to go out and get yourself a CAR. Not that car. A CAR. You need the Context, Action, and Result to answer interview questions. Have a CAR in your back pocket and you can take the interview anywhere you want to go. No one understands your situation better than you. Unfortunately, you provide answers that assume the hiring manager knows the situation you went through to get your results. Not so. Every company culture is different and every company has different problems to solve so you have to explain the context of what you did to show your results. What was the situation in the department or project? Was the situation dire? Full of conflict? A dearth of money or time? What, exactly, was the situation when you, our hero, entered the scene from stage left to save the day? A paragraph or two about the situation you encountered when saving the company provides context to the hiring manager so there will be understanding of why you did what you did. What actions did you take to solve the problem, turn the situation around and save the day? If the interview question was “tell me about a time when your team experienced conflict and what you did to resolve it,” you need to state the actions you took to help channel the conflict into a productive decision. Actions can demonstrate your job skills, your motivation for doing the work or how you attempt to fit in with the team. Know which of these actions are needed to answer the interview question. At the end of the day, hiring managers want to hire people who produce results and can help them achieve their goals. Without showing the results of your actions with numbers, compliments or changes to process, what you did to solve a problem won’t come across because nothing was resolved by your actions. Know the results you are going to show to answer each interview question. Going through this process to answer an interview question â€" Context, Action, and Result â€" gives you the framework to answer any interview question. More importantly, this process gives you the ability to tell great interview stories because there is always a problem to solve â€" Context. Plus a hero who can save the day â€" your Actions. And satisfaction provided to all â€" your Results. Think about it: people remember stories far more than they remember anything else. Why not be the hero of your interview by answering your interview questions with Context, Actions, and Results? […] is to explain how you achieved your business results from your work. I advocate the CAR method â€" Context, Actions, and Results. Here is the context of the work needed, here are the actions I took to get the work done, and, […] Reply […] start describing your situation using the CAR methodology â€" Context, Actions, and Results. You can talk about a situation, but the action you want to […] Reply Your ability to build interview stories…that is why I like this method. As well, you can effectively answer virtually any “behavioral” type interview question because you start with the context, then the actions you took and the results you get. Reply What a straight forward and great guide to presenting a formula to answer interview questions. Stories using the CAR concept can leap frog you ahead of the competition in your job search. Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.