Securing an interview is exciting, but it also means it’s time to prepare. This is your chance to display your skills and allow the company or recruiter to learn what you can do and what you have to offer, which can be a lot of pressure.
There’s a lot you need to get through in a short amount of time, so it’s important not to leave the experience up to chance. You need to walk into the interview confident you can express exactly what you can do. Here are some of the best ways to showcase your skills.
Put an emphasis on your soft skills
Your hard or technical skills, what you know professionally that enables you to do the job, can come across more clearly in an interview. Knowing this, you have to think about highlighting your soft skills.
What skills fall into this category? Think of them as anything that will enable you to perform well in a role but don’t relate to practical knowledge needed. For example, how you communicate, solve problems, lead people, show you’re responsible, and demonstrate flexibility are all soft skills.
The key is not to just list these and hope that does the trick. The interviewer may ask you to do that, but throughout your time you need to back up what you said. If you say you’re a good communicator, that should come off in your conversation. When you list that you’re a good team player, provide examples that showcase this.
Anyone can say they have what it takes, but the interview is your opportunity to prove it.
Provide real examples to back up hard skills
Similarly, this is the approach you want for your hard skills. Discussing your experience is your opportunity to say more than what you can do, because you have the chance to show the results. Use explanations behind your experience that demonstrate growth or increases in productivity.
Ensuring you explain the value of your skills and the effects of them in real life can give your recruiter more confidence in placing you in the right position or make it an easy decision for a company to hire you.
Practice until you’re comfortable
Now that you know what you’re supposed to do, it’s time to practice. You can’t predict everything that will be asked, but you can begin finding ways to showcase your hard and soft skills by providing examples in the conversation that support what you’re saying. The more comfortable you become, the better your chances of nailing the interview.
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