| You've established rapport and maintained relationships | | | | there and have come to help. This attitude holds true |
| with family, friends, and business associates for years. | | | | whether you're fact-finding at a networking meting, |
| People like you. And so will job interviewers when you | | | | requesting an appointment, or interviewing for your |
| make establishing rapport with them your top priority. | | | | next position. |
| While the various job search techniques employed in | | | | To be shrewd, slick, or clever may produce some |
| interviewing and networking are important, they're no | | | | results. But it isn't the straightforward approach that |
| substitute for establishing rapport with job interviewers. | | | | enables you to establish rapport with an interviewer |
| Because rapport -- having harmonious relationships-- is | | | | who is as interested in getting facts as well as |
| how to be liked by prospective employers, it needs to | | | | providing them. |
| be your top priority at interviews, networking, and | | | | Even when you find yourself being interviewed by a |
| business meetings. | | | | group of several executives (the dreaded group |
| A survey by the human resources department of a | | | | interview), it's still a conversation between two people. |
| Fortune 500 Company makes the point. The study | | | | That's because you will talk to and establish rapport |
| shows interviewers base hiring decisions on three | | | | with one person at a tGive gime |
| questions they ask as soon as you enter their office -- | | | | Another way to establish rapport is to connect with an |
| 1. Do I like this candidate? | | | | interviewer almost as you would with a friend. You'll |
| 2. Will she fit in with the rest of my staff? | | | | make interviews more spontaneous when thinking of |
| 3. Can he do the job? | | | | them as conversations. |
| Which point contributes most to winning interviews? | | | | What separates social conversations from interviews? |
| The first. Getting people to like you by establishing | | | | With the later you're aiming towards a specific goal |
| rapport is the key ingredient of a successful interview. | | | | other than the mutual enjoyment of the conversation |
| As the study shows, establishing rapport is even more | | | | itself. Otherwise, there is the same give and take |
| important than you ability to perform the job. To be | | | | between you and interviewers as there is between |
| liked is what sets you apart from other candidates. | | | | you, friends, and business colleagues. |
| An easy way to establish rapport with job | | | | When you consider all of the interviewing skills, |
| interviewers is to be truthful and have a desire to help. | | | | establishing rapport with your interviewer is the best |
| You must translate with words and gestures, | | | | way to make a winning impression. |
| inflections and expressions that you're happy to be | | | | |