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interview skills development

Success in the business world invariably requires that one engage in innumerable interviews.  For young professionals, job interviews are the key to landing jobs and gaining promotions.  For aspiring executives, prowess in the interview room is the invisible divider which separates progress and success from a career spent treading water.  For those persons who have already established themselves in senior positions, a capacity for answering questions confidently and persuasively in an important part of maintaining one’s status, and keeping the door open for further growth.  And, for the small number of professionals whose job requires that they formally and informally grant direct media interviews and operate press conferences, having a deep set of interview skills is much more than an asset—it is a survival tool.

It should surprise no one that, each year, careers and businesses are made, and ruined, by interviews (both job-related interviews, internal corporate interviews, and media interviews).   What should surprise us all, however, is how few members of the business community are adequately trained to prepare for and engage in interviews in a thoughtful, clear and successful way.

An important part of Diversified’s interview skills development service includes “mock interviews”, but unlike other agencies (which believe that interview skills development is solely a matter of “practice”), Diversified believes that much more goes into becoming a good interviewee.  And, as such, mock interviews are only a single portion of a much larger process.

Interview skills development requires building a knowledge base about the nature of interviews, the differences between various sorts of interviews, and the significance of the context of each interview.  And, furthermore, interview skills development is intricately tied to issues management, because knowing what one is likely to be asked (and being able to prepare accordingly) is almost always a matter of properly identifying what the interviewing party is likely to consider one’s “issues”.

Diversified’s unique approach to interview skills development teaches clients to actively and systematically prepare for interviews, rather than “training” clients to simply answer a collection of practice questions.