Win The Job Interview - Author Of The Peak Interview Shows Job Seekers How To Get The Offer

April 28, 2011 - PRLog -- New insights into the job interview process can give you an edge to win the interview and get the job.  By the time you get to the job interview, the company has done lots of screening and already knows that you are qualified for the job. But so are all the other interviewees.  Your experience, skills, competencies, and abilities will not differentiate you.  Your competition is just as qualified as you are.  You need an edge.
 
Great jazz soloists know that when they are playing a solo, they have to hit one or two peaks in the body of the solo and end with a flourish.  That's because people evaluate an experience based on its peaks (good or bad) and how the experience ended.  The rest of the experience is remembered, but the evaluation of the experience is based on its peaks, and how it ends.  This is called the ‘Peak/End rule’ and it was discovered by Nobel Prize winner, Daniel Kahneman.

Burnett tells his audiences that you need to have a perfect baseline interview, and then build emotional peaks for the hiring manager.  That’s because the research shows us that the hiring manager will hire the person he or she likes the most.  The job interview is your first opportunity to start to build a great relationship with your future boss.  To win the interview, you must be focussed on this relationship.  Bill’s talks are based on the book “The Peak Interview” which shows you how to create those crucial peaks also explains how to deliver a perfect baseline interview. http://www.peakinterview.com/

Bill Burnett also posts additional helpful tips on the blog for The Peak Interview at http://blog.peakinterview.com