Podcast 29: Highlighting Your Soft Skills to Nail Every Interview

It’s Week 4 of the Six Weeks of Serious Soft Skills
Strategy, where we will be looking at how to
incorporate soft skills into a job interview. Armed
with this ability, you will zoom to the top of
every job search list.


In Episode 29 of the Serious Soft Skills Podcast,
Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham continue to
put soft skills to work for you in your quest to
obtain a better job or a promotion. This week,
we're going to talk through how to use soft skills
as an interviewee.


Among the topics covered:


Soft skills are best conveyed in storytelling,
which is a soft skill.

Rather than reciting facts, give context.

Show passion, show initiative, show you did
more than what was required.

Why you want to be sticky to the interviewer

How long an anecdote or story should be

Dealing with open-ended questions

Highlighting your transferrable skills

How you want to be remembered by the employer
or search committee

How to take control of the interview and make
sure you get to explain your soft skills

Dealing with behavioral questions

What you need to do in advance to be ready to
integrate soft skills into an interview

Why you should take EVERY interview offered



Next week


Next week we will be starting the last part of our
Six Weeks of Soft Skills Strategy. For the next two
weeks, we will look at the soft skills and
interviewing from the employer's perspective. Not
only will this help people looking to hire, but
potential interviewees will obtain even more
insights into how to integrate soft skills into
their job search. Coming up next week on the
Serious Soft Skills Podcast.


And don't forget to download your copy of our
ebook, The 55 Soft Skills that Guide Employee and
Organizational Success, with the coupon code
“sixweeks” to get it for free. Until next time,
good day, thanks for listening, and of course, good
soft skills.









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