{"id":5916,"date":"2019-05-04T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2019-05-04T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T19:02:19","slug":"great-interview-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/great-interview-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Interview Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While interviewing for internships for this summer, I was able to use some of the techniques we have learned in this class in order to get more job offers. What I was able to do possibly most successfully was identifying the need, or pain that a company had and needed to fill, then showing them how I was the perfect candidate to fill that position. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pilbox.themuse.com\/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.themuse.com%2Fuploaded%2Fattachments%2F24057.jpg%3Fv%3D52c131fe9d4f8216c83364140aa2bb03bb3064b84d1b6cf48db5a12839ddd373&amp;h=367&amp;prog=1\" alt=\"Image result for interviewing\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, I interviewed with a Christian summer camp who needed someone to do their marketing this summer. During the interview process, I found out where they had struggled in the past with marketing. I showed them what I would be able to do during my time with them, and how my work would benefit the camp down the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only does identifying the pain show your potential employer that you care more about their company doing well than you care about yourself simply getting a job, but it also can serve to show yourself what kind of things you will need to do in order to get the employer where they need to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don&#8217;t have to wait until we are in an actual sales position to apply the skills that we learn in our sales class. As professor Sweet has said many times, we can be implementing these skills into the things we are doing every day, and if we do this, we will be able to use the tools much more effectively when it comes time to use them in an actual sales situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While interviewing for internships for this summer, I was able to use some of the techniques we have learned in this class in order to get more job offers. What I was able to do possibly most successfully was identifying the need, or pain that a company had and needed to fill, then showing them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sales-selling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}