Darrin Grella – Interview Guru

My friends…getting an interview is a great thing.  Congratulations!

But the question is not if you are getting interviews but what have those interviews gotten you?  Does that makes sense?  The goal of your resume is get you an interview.  The goal of an interview is to get you a job offer.  The goal of a job offer is to help you pay your bills but ultimately to satisfy your career appetite.

I have been approached  by a particular Creative Director to assist with a job search who in my opinion has some great creative skills and a top-notch portfolio.  She has been actively interviewing week after week which she has landed on her own merit and effort.  If I am following her activity correctly, then she has had seven interviews in just 4 weeks on the job market.  That is actually very good progress for anyone.  I asked her the bold question… Good job on landing these interviews, how many offers are you getting?

I ask this because I see people day after day get very excited about scheduling an interview.  Interviews DO NOT PAY THE BILLS!  Please do yourself a huge favor and invest just as much time in preparing for your upcoming interview as you will searching for interviews or actually interviewing.  Take at least one hour in preparation!  If you don’t feel that you have one hour to invest, then find 30 minutes, or at least 15!  This really is a huge deal because believe it or not you are in more control of the process than you believe.  I am sad to say that my Creative Director friend probably blew the chance to have 7 offers by now.  That is right, if she would have prepared better and more effectively for those interviews then she could potentially be working the job she really WANTS versus a job that she may have to settle for.

Please prepare and you will be glad you did.

I would love to hear your preparation success stories.