{"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":"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-12","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->