Being a Real Leader on Job Interviews | JobSearchTV.com
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter points out the false “Hollywood Leadership Model,” which defines what leadership really is and encourages you to show it on your interviews.
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I want to talk with you about expressing
your leadership on interviews now some people have this silly idea that people
are born leaders they’re completely charismatic it’s like they walk into the
room and the seas parts and the heavens open up and it’s wrong. Now in point of
fact most leaders are individuals who are passionate about what they do can
make a case for for themselves, and cause people to suddenly say I want to follow
them. Now, in interviewing, . . . No, let me give you an example. Whether you like his
politics from now President Obama is someone i’m going to give a case out of
his life. He’s a guy who has a team guy, high regularly, didn’t show up for
classes and is now president of the free world. ou know is it that he just
hypnotized people along the way I don’t think so but along the way he exhibited
qualities that caused people to trust him like him respect them and there
certainly have been a lot of people who said no to him along the way yet there
was a determination and perseverance about him that’s brought him to where
he is today and again let’s not get into the politics I’m talking about the
personal qualities the man has you know so when you’re interviewing what’s a
firm looking for I want to talk about competence self-confidence cash or
chemistry charisma personal leadership this is the part of the Covey my
conversation with you or I’m talking with you about complete belief your
complete self confidence. And, understand people will say no to you. It’s not as
though, again, the heavens will part and the seas will open
but you need to display qualities that cause people to trust you to have belief
in you have believed that you’re the solution to a problem now how do you do
that? Number one is you have no answers. Most people walk into
interviews and they’re arrogant and believe that they can tell the employer
what they’re doing wrong. You’ve first got to listen. You first have to, when they
say “so how do you think you can help us?” I’d say “I don’t know. What problems do you
have? What issues do you have? What have you tried so far? I don’t want to presume
I know anything about your environment and make suggestions to you they’re
pointless because you know far more about this than I do tell me what you’ve
done so far tell me what I can help you with big difference in attitude so my
encouragement to you is be someone that inspires confidence be the leader that
you can be I was listening to a podcast recently where Seth Godin was talking
about the ASPCA which most people don’t know was originally an organization that
put animals to sleep. And through the efforts of an individual whose name I
don’t recall right now they first were able to set up a trial in San Francisco
of no no kill now this man who worked hard was fought every step along the way
He was nondescript. He was the antithesis of what an hour Hollywood stylized
culture is seen as a leader but he had faith and determination and persistence
that even though opponents flew in in the early 20th century to oppose his
vantage point he still worked at and persisted and found a group of
individuals to support him eventually and was able to make that trial
environment in San Francisco work he then took it elsewhere all the while
as an individual who was nondescript and again not exactly the image of a leader
but he became a leader. He became someone who inspired belief in his ideas and you
can do that too and you need to show that under interviews
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