{"id":64,"date":"2006-05-30T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-05-30T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:35:20","slug":"how-to-answer-any-interview-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/how-to-answer-any-interview-question\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Answer Any Interview Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, so much for focusing on the interviewer-side of face-to-face interviews.  CareerJournal has come out with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjournal.com\/jobhunting\/interviewing\/20060530-capell.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&#038;cjrss=frontpage\" target=\"_blank\">new article<\/a> that is the title of this post.  There is nothing groundbreaking in the approach outlined in the article.  Yet, I did enjoy this bit of cryptic strategy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He suggests when answering job-interview queries applying the formula Q = A + 1: Q is the question; A is the answer; + is the bridge to the message you want to deliver; and 1 is the point you want to make.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you take the &#8216;+ 1&#8217; off the formula, then the interviewer is controlling the session,&#8221; says Mr. Braun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to write about that excerpt.  Of course, math became quite confusing to me once letters replaced numbers in the equations.  I make no bones about that fact.<\/p>\n<p>I close with one quote from earlier in the article that basically sums up the thesis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These trainers say you can deliver the message you want to an employer, regardless of the question you&#8217;re asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uggh.  For the antecdote, may I suggest an approach we use called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Newsletters\/2005\/2005_May_3.html\" target=\"_blank\">drilling down<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, so much for focusing on the interviewer-side of face-to-face interviews. CareerJournal has come out with a new article that is the title of this post. There is nothing groundbreaking in the approach outlined in the article. Yet, I did enjoy this bit of cryptic strategy: He suggests when answering job-interview queries applying the formula Q = A + 1: Q is the question; A is the answer; + is the bridge to the message you want to deliver; and 1 is the point you want to make. &#8220;If you take the &#8216;+ 1&#8217; off the formula, then the interviewer is controlling the session,&#8221; says Mr. Braun. I&#8217;m not sure&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/how-to-answer-any-interview-question\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-interview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-12","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":183,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/interviewer-styles\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"Interviewer Styles","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Monster.com has an entertaining article about interviewer styles. We've seen this \"version\" more times than we can count: The Unskilled Interviewer Problem: This is an interviewer who doesn't know what he's doing. Maybe the person was \"roped into being there,\" says Meehl. \"Maybe they just don't know what to do.\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":185,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/questions-for-the-interviewer\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":1},"title":"Questions for the Interviewer","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Tory Johnson from abcnews.com has a helpful article titled Turn the Tables in a Job Interview. 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I am not making these up: \"If a spaceship were to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":59,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/finally-some-interviewer-tips\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":3},"title":"Finally Some Interviewer Tips","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We are back after a scorcher of a Memorial Day weekend here in Minnesota (record highs this past weekend). Instead of overheating as I read more candidate interview preparation articles, CareerBuilder.com finally chimes in with some tips for the interviewer with Top 10 Interview No No's. We do enjoy top\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":252,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/finally-some-interviewer-tips-part-deux\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":4},"title":"Finally Some Interviewer Tips &#8211; Part Deux","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"August 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A few months back we posted on an article from CareerBuilder.com titled Top 10 Interview No No's. One of the top 10 \"no-no's\" is a topic that we discuss with our clients regularly. It is: 2. 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