Why Should We Hire You? | Best Answer (from former CEO)

hey everyone welcome to the second video in my series on getting hired today I'm

gonna give you the best answer to the common job interview question why should

we hire you okay there are many different forms of this question why do

you want to work here why should we hire you why do you want to work at this

company why do you want to work for us it's all the same question and you

always give the same answer each time I'm gonna let you in on a little secret

here this is actually a really good question to be asked in a job interview

this is your moment to shine this is your moment to make a case for yourself

see often during formal job interviews that are very structured you don't

really get a chance to speak freely you spend your entire time answering very

specific formal questions I mean you could have been the first person in

history to discover finally the meaning of life but you would have never had a

chance to say it in a formal structured job interview where all that happens is

they ask you very specific formal questions like how many eras experience

do you have using Microsoft Excel so this question is your chance to shine

and really be able to say whatever you want to make a case for yourself

in fact if I was asked this question during a job interview the first thing I

would say is I was hoping you'd ask me that now before we talk about how to

answer this question really we need to understand something first about

recruiters recruiters are paid to find candidates that meet a list of

requirements that's their job that's what recruiters are paid to do whether

they're internal to a company or their external operating as an intra crew ting

firm that's their job that's how they get paid what they care about our

requirements they don't write the requirements they are given a list of

requirements usually by a hiring manager or a client if it's an external company

and they are paid to provide candidates that meet those requirements now hiring

managers are a little bit different they're not the same thing as recruiters

if you end up getting the job chances are the hiring manager will be your boss

usually they're the ones that write the requirements and give them to the

recruiter they might not necessarily be hung up on specific requirements they

tend to care more about whether they like and they think that you'll be good in the role if you can bring something

extra to the role maybe that might be a factor and that's for the hiring manager

to decide you like that expression you know you had one job well you have one

job in a job interview and that is to communicate to the recruiter how you

meet all the requirements for the job so if somebody asks you the question why

should we hire you a good answer is to say well as I understand it you're

looking for somebody who and then you go down the list of job requirements and

say how you satisfy each one now that's the answer that many many big dollar

resume writers and hiring consultants will give you I would like to add an

optional extra to end off and that would be to show a little bit of personality

and a little bit of desire for the position maybe you could say something

like well I've always wanted to work at an organization like this

for this reason so that's why I'm hoping you'll select me okay so an important

note here you know that if you get called in for a job interview you're

gonna have to be doing some preparation for the interview one of the things that

you need to do is make sure that you print out the job description which has

a list of the requirements what I would recommend is taking a highlighter and

highlighting maybe one word on each of the requirements so you can quickly scan

down that list then when you're in the interview make sure that you have that

paper in front of you among perhaps other papers and when you

get asked this question when you go down the list of requirements you have the

paper in front of you so you know that you're speaking to each one and you're

not forgetting or omitting any of the requirements so once again you get the

question why should we hire you a great response is to say I'm glad you asked me

that question as I understand it you're looking for somebody who and then you go

down the list of requirements speaking to each one for example three years

experience in this I do I actually have five that has this particular degree I

have that actually I got that degree with honors you're also looking for

somebody who's familiar with this software well I do I actually have five

years of using that software practically every day I'm in

advanced user for it and I've always wanted to work for this company because

I do know a couple of people that work here and I've heard good things about

how they treat their employees so that's why I'm hoping you'll select me so there

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