Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 10

In response to the types of questions below, show the interviewer the research you’ve compiled on the organization. Obviously, you need to tailor this portfolio section to each employer you interview with. This intelligence-gathering will demonstrate you’ve done your homework. If asked about suggestions for the organization, you can be prepared to point to your research as you share a few ideas for the employer.

  • Tell me what you know about our company.
  • Why did you decide to seek a position in this company?
  • What suggestions do you have for our organization?

Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers, Quintessential Careers Press, ISBN-10: 1-934689-00-9. Find out the ways you can own the entire book.

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The new, improved edition of the book, Tell Me About Yourself, is now available. You can order it on Amazon.

About This Blog

This blog serializes the first edition of the book, Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers (shown below). It is a blog-within-a-blog, and its parent blog is A Storied Career.

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You can read the new, improved edition of Tell Me About Yourself by buying the book.

You can read the first edition of Tell Me About Yourself on this blog, as follows (Follow each chapter sequentially through the dates after the opening entries for each chapter):

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