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Because the strategy in this article is so powerful that the results sound beyond-belief, I am going to begin this article with a challenge.

I challenge anyone to come up with a strategy, an approach, a technique, or a tool that is more effective at landing job offers than this one. I could be wrong - there may be a more powerful tool. If there is, I would love to know about it.

In this article you will learn the secret strategy that allowed me to gain 4 job offers from three job interviews. That’s right, every interview I went for resulted in a job offer, plus the recruitment firm offered me a job at their company.

Why? Because I was using some secret strategies that no-one in the recruitment business was teaching. Have you noticed that when you tell someone something, it creates doubt? However, when you show them - it creates certainty?

And isn’t it true that to get employed, you must create certainty that you have what it takes in the minds of the interviewers?

So how do you create certainty? The easiest way to create this certainty is to understand the difference between showing and telling.

Using these steps below, you will discover how to “show” not “tell”. The result is that your interviewer wont be left thinking “she might have what it takes” - by the end of the interview she will be thinking “she has what it takes - I saw it with my own eyes”.

That’s because rather than do what most people do which is “tell them something doubtable”, you “showed them valuable”.

It’s the difference between a stand-up comic telling a joke, versus a stand-up comic saying “I’m a very funny person”. Which would you rather hear? Same applies to your interviewer: they want to be shown, not told.

Yet most people end up like the second type of “comic” - telling their prospective employer “I have great communication and team-work skills rather than showing it.”

So how can you show, not tell your new employer what’s valuable about you? This secret below will show you how.

Practice a question you know that they will either ask, or that you will have an opportunity to incorporate in your answer. Such as “why do you think you will be good in this job?”

50% of the time, the interviewer will ask some variant of this question. And if they don’t, simply knowing in your mind why you are ideal for that job somehow almost telepathically transmits through to them even if you don’t even use your words.

They will pick up subconsciously on the fact that you know you’ll be great at this job and why through your body language and the inflexion of your voice.

So here is a powerful example of how in as little as 2 minutes, you will show rather than tell that you have all the goods for the job.

Q: Why do you think you have what it takes to do this job

A: “From what I have seen and read about your company, I believe you put the emphasis on teamwork, relationship building and excellent customer services. Now yes its true - I have made it my mission to cultivate these skills through my working career, but something more than that - I’ve learnt the importance of these things because to be honest, I haven’t always had them.

There was a time in my career where I was too intent on putting my nose down, shutting out the world and working until the job was done. The consequence of “doing my own thing” meant I would not put enough time and to relationship building, and it meant I didn’t hold the customer in the same highest level of esteem that was necessary for a company to thrive.

Something happened in my life which caused me to operate differently. Perhaps one day I will share this with you. But for now, lets just say that afterwards, I gained an awareness of where I was lacking. I undertook steps to correct myself such that now, the most common feedback I get from employers is that I am a model of relationship building, customer service and teamwork skills.

I believe that not always having these attributes, has qualified me to understand their importance and take them to a higher level than if I had simply always been that way. And this has given me the opportunity to be a model for the teamwork, relationship building and excellent customer services that your company demands, in this role here today. “

Think about how powerful this answer is. What does it show.

- Does it show the ability to self-reflect?

- Does it show that you are honest?

- Does it show humility?

- Does it show you have the capacity to grow?

- Does it show you are a real person, not the pretend cut-out of perfection that most people hold up in their CVs and interviews?

- Does it show that you have great communication skills?

- Does the employer feel more likely to believe your final announcement that you have “teamwork, relationship building and excellent customer services that your company demands” because you’ve got a track-record of being honest just one minute earlier

Ask yourself “how can I show not tell” and you will be ahead of 95% of other job candidates straight away.

You will end up with multiple job offers and be able to use this to not only gain your dream job, but negotiate your dream

Daniel Batten makes unconventional products for conventional areas: your business and your career. Using “chaotic compliance: you learn to succeed in your business/career by becoming a persuasive speaker, a GenX leader, or a headhunted employee. Find out more by subscribing to his free newsletter: => http://beyondtheceiling.com/newsletter.html or pick up secrets from his blog http://beyondtheceiling.wordpress.com/

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