Rob Bagley explains the F.I.T. Model for job interviews: Favorite, Insight, Transition. Use it to answer "Tell me about yourself" in the first 15 minutes, when 60% of interviewers form their opinion. He walks through a detailed example spanning missionary work, research, therapy, and education.
Today I want to teach you how to use the F.I.T. Model to get your interview off to a great start. In the first 15 minutes of an interview, 60% of interviewers will make their decision about a candidate. Because of this, it's critical that you're likable and memorable during this portion of the interview. It's easy to do this using the F.I.T. Model created by Steve Dalton. The F.I.T. Model helps you talk about your previous experiences with enthusiasm So people can understand the things you're good at, as well as understand why you transition from one work experience to another. The F in FIT stands for favorite. The I stands for either insight gained or improvement desired. The T stands for transition, in other words, the reason you stopped doing one job and started doing a different job or activity. The perfect time to use FIT fit is during an interview when you're asked one of the two most common questions: tell me about yourself, or walk me through your resume. Here's an example of how you do this. After my freshman year in college, I took a two-year gap and served as a volunteer missionary in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. During this time, I worked with a diverse group of people from all over the world. My favorite thing about that experience was learning how to resolve conflict with coworkers how to teach and train new volunteers, and develop my public, public speaking skills. This experience motivated me to seek a career helping people, so when I returned to college, I decided to become a marriage and family therapist. During graduate school, I had an opportunity to work as a research assistant. My favorite part of that job was developing a website and writing scripts to automate data collection. An insight that I gained from this job was that I love working with technology. And improving processes is something that I'm good at. After graduation, I worked as a therapist and I had the opportunity to provide workshops and family therapy for teenagers who just committed their first criminal offense. My favorite part of that job was helping parents learn to connect with their teenagers and help them make better choices. While this was satisfying, it was also very emotionally draining. So the improvement that I desired was to do more prevention work, helping people avoid problems Therefore, I decided to transition back to a career in education. That's why I'm so interested in this position. It would give me the opportunity to utilize technology, improve processes, and teach students how to have successful lives. So that's it. Remember to use FIT, FIT, for each one of your resume experiences, and that will help you be likable and memorable. Good luck on your interview.
