How to answer: 'filling the gap' #interviewtips #interviewquestions #interviewcoach #careercoach

This is what will happen when you ask the interviewer how they will help you get up to speed. Hi, my name is Chloe Spillane. I'm a career coach and I've interviewed over 1,000 people, so I know what works to get you hired. They ask you, we see you don't have experience in this area, how do you plan to fill that gap? You say, you're right, though I don't have experience in that specific area, I believe that I'd be able to leverage my transferable skills across X, Y, and Z to ensure that I get up to speed quickly. Now you're going to want to share how you have got up to speed quickly as well. Also, based on my experience getting up to speed in X role at X company, I'm confident that I'm someone that learns quickly based on that experience and is able to deliver on the role. What I'd love to understand from you is what support looks like in this role. Can you speak to what that looks like? What this is going to do is not only demonstrate your confidence in your own capability and demonstrating that, yes, you believe that you'll be able to get up to speed as quickly as possible, but you're only prepared to do that if they're prepared to give you the support that you need. What this does in the interview room is that it completely levels the playing field. You establish credibility, authority, and a huge amount of confidence in yourself, which will then make you a much more desirable candidate. And the most important part is that you have shown them tangible evidence of when you have filled a gap in a role. And that's what the interviewer needs to hear.