In the hiring decision, it's not what you say but what you get the hiring manager to say.

May 29, 2010 - PRLog -- Bill Burnett, author of The Peak Interview has been giving talks to job seekers to help them prepare for their next job interview and to show them how to create competitive advantage in the interview over their unknown rivals.   He shows what has more impact to the hiring decision, is what the candidate gets the hiring manager to talk about, rather than what the candidate says.

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 determined 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’.   Bill shows how to use this insight in the job interview and how to produce the most perfect interview.
http://www.peakinterview.com/

Bill will be presenting to senior executives on June  2, 2010, 4pm at Execunet, Chicago IL
This is open to all senior executives.  To register go to: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2010/02/septe...

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Launchpad Partners are extraordinarily good at finding competitive advantage in difficult situations. The Peak Interview is an example of finding competitive advantage in a highly saturated environment where you'd expect that every stone had already been overturned. The advantage found in The Peak Interview can be applied to the job interview, any sales environment, or in face-to-face social networking.