Interview Influence
You’re going to hit a ceiling in your career pretty soon, if all you have ever learnt about influence is what you’ve read online before a job interview and what your recruitment company or HR manager has handed you.
But if you have you have influence levels which are incredible, then you start to get career results that are exponential.
It’s at this point you start to get what we call “above the line influence.”
You’ve probably already realized that it’s not the person with the best capability that gets the job.
It’s the person with the greatest influence ability, during that job interview.
So given how important this is, doesn’t it make sense to take some time to master it?
You probably spent 13 years at school + years at a tertiary institute + years more in the work force developing capability, but almost no time at all developing your influence ability. Does that equation make sense, given that it’s your influence ability that will have more effect on whether you get the job?
You may think you have your influencing skills sorted. You’ve prepared, you’ve thought about how to answer certain questions, you’ve read up on how to present well at interview time, you’ve even scripted a few stories to tell that show how you handled certain situations.
So has everyone else.
If you want to differentiate yourself – that’s not enough.
In fact, its bordering on self-delusion to imagine that gives you any advantage at all. It may give you a feeling of being prepared before the interview, but that feeling will evaporate pretty fast within minutes of being in the interview room when you find that in the moment, you have nowhere near the ability to apply any of what you read.
That’s because at interview time, there are things that are communicated at a subconscious level that will
- raise doubt in people’s mind
- lower their perception of your market worth and value to them
Often it is a 5 minute – 20 minute fix.
There are other things that will
- get people nodding their head in agreement with your ideas
- increase their perception of your market worth
before you even leave the room.
These things can be learnt within 2 days to the point you can consistently apply them.
What that means is that you can walk into your next job interview as an equal party, not cap-in-hand. What that means is that you’ll be heard and respected and treated as an authority. What that means is that without them knowing why, they will start imagining you as the solution to their problems while you speak. What that means is that by the time you leave that room, they’ll be looking for reasons to hire you, even if you don’t tick all the boxes.
We can say this with confidence because the success rate for this program is close to 100%. We did once have one person who did not got a job after doing our course. That was because they decided to set up their own consultancy company. In fact its not unusual for people who go through our program to get 2-3 job offers. The advantage of that is that get great leverage to negotiate. That means they get working conditions they want and often get a starting salary 10-25% higher than they imagined.
The thing that excites me most about this course is that the skills you learn are with you for life. You can use the same influence once you have your new job to
- align others to your ideas
- lead a team (or lead by example)
- get early and meaningful pay rises and/or promotions
What that means is that you’ll live your career potential to a much greater degree.
Going to a job interview without learning how to influence people, is like proposing marriage, and then offering a lump of gold ore.
They may say yes – but only because everyone no-one else presented them with a polished gold ring either.
If you are ready to sort out this area of your professional life for good, so you can get on with the next stage in your career journey -
Then write “tell me more” and send it now to contact@beyondtheceiling.com.
This is done either as a 2-day course ($1595), or as one-on-one coaching.
