Employers fear hiring someone who can't do the job. Research the company's specific problems and walk in with a ready solution. One head-of-IT candidate won an offer by identifying the platforms needed and proposing fixes before being hired.
How to win any interview. What most people don't know is that when an employer is looking for somebody to come do the job, the thing that they're most scared of is that they're going to hire you and you're not actually able to do the job. And so if you want to win the interview and you want to win the job, the secret is to start doing the job before you get it. And so what I mean by that is this, I'll give you an example. So we were looking to hire somebody to be head of IT, and so this person came on to their second interview and they already researched the platforms we were looking for, the integrations we needed, and they had figured out the solution to the problem that we had that we were going to hire them to figure out. And so what that says to the person hiring is you already know how to solve the problem. You went and figured out already and I haven't even hired you yet. If that's what you've done for me before I've hired you, what are you going to do when you have the job? And so the best thing that you could possibly do is start doing the job before you've gotten it.
