5 Sales Tactics to Use for Your Next Interview

By Cathryn Vandewater on November 30, 2010

Interviews are often intimidating, but they can get a lot less stressful (and more successful) if you develop a salesman's approach to handling them. You'll never be able to predict the questions you'll be asked, but if you've honed your key selling points, studied the company's needs, and perfected your attitude, answering will get a lot easier.
Try these five tips and watch your batting average soar:

1. Develop a Pitch (or Two, or Three)
Imagine you're the head of a company whose products you truly believe in. You don't need to oversell your products—you just need to connect with the potential buyer and let your faith and enthusiasm in the product shine through.

Interviews are a lot like a sales meeting, with you as the product. Just as you might prepare a presentation of strengths and uses for merchandise, make one for yourself. What are your core strengths? Who are you as a person and how does that reflect in your work? Once you've developed your "story," you can answer any interview question in a way that underscores your key values.

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Career and online experts recommend leveraging social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and (especially) LinkedIn as part of a job search. But, they say, social networking should be used as a complement to, and not a replacement for...

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