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effortless English dot-com I was
desperate at one time in my life death
sprit for a job I was unemployed and I
had just a little bit of savings and my
savings were going down down down very
quickly i desperately sent out resumes
and cover letters now eventually I did
get some interviews but they all want
the same I went into the interviews and
I was confident you know and this was
later in my life so I had more
confidence i was a better interviewing
so go in and they asked the usual
questions again what's your greatest
strength well my greatest strength is
that uh you know I work very hard I'm
intelligent I'm always looking to solve
problems whatever something like that
what's your greatest weakness why do you
what do you want to be doing in five
years all that stuff and I gave decent
but boring answers like most people and
i did not get called again I started to
panic because i was getting job
interviews I was doing a good job with
my cover letters and resumes and i use a
it was using a method that I use that I
talked about rather in the business
English conversations course business
English conversations dot-com and very
powerful and effective method for
getting interviews using letters and
emails now we can do emails and resumes
so that wasn't my problem but I could
get interviews no problem but i could
not pass the interviews I would get one
interview and then done an interview and
then done an interview done again and
again and again and then I was getting
more and more and more desperate like oh
my god I I'm not gonna be able to pay my
rent I i'm not going to be able to pay
my bills my phone bill I'm gonna starve
you know all these thoughts in my head
I'm starting to panic and that's when I
decided to try something different in
the next interview with got an interview
at a hospital for a job in the emergency
I thought again and I've got to do
something different in my job interviews
so i decided to try something new and
different and i decided to use two magic
words to magic words and these two magic
words transformed my interviewing
ability with these two words i went from
being okay at interviewing too great and
interviewing I got that job in the
emergency room because of those two
words and then after that any time I
went for a job interview I got the job
offer yeah i had a hundred percent
record after that until i started my own
business mainly because of these two
magic words the two magic words of job
interviewing what are they i know you're
wondering what are the AJ why don't you
tell us because i want you to think
about it what do you think they are the
two most powerful words you can use in
any job interview any job interview any
situation doesn't matter to most
powerful words when you give an answer
alright i'll tell you the two most
powerful words and job interviewing are
for example for example for example for
example makes you an amazing interviewer
let me tell you how it works i'll show
you give you two different answers
the second one will use the magic words
so number one uh tell us about your job
history you know what are you good at
oh yes I'm very punctual you know I i
I'm not late never late that's answer
number one sounds confident sounds good
right answer number too much better same
thing is you know i'm i'm always on time
I'm never late being punctual being on
time is very very important to me
for example in my last job I never
missed one day of work and I was never
I was on time or early every single day
of that job in fact I encourage you
please call my former boss he's one of
princes and I'm sure he'll be happy to
talk to you about my attendance record
and my dedication to being on time and
but that's not the only thing that's
important you know it's also important
when you're at work to do good work to
for example in my last job we had a big
project there was a problem one of our
team members quit and I had to step in
and do his work also and we got the
project finished on time i'm very proud
can you feel the difference between
those answers you see what that does
those two magic words for example they
transform the answer how do they do it
well by being specific see as a job
interviewer what I want is I want proof
I want evidence every person says the
ok nobody comes into a job interviews as
you know really i'm not a good worker
i'm lazy and I'm always late and I
really hate working and I saw my skills
nobody says that nobody even though it's
probably true for a lot of them but they
don't say that everybody says they're
everybody says they're a hard worker
everybody says they have good skills
everybody does so just saying it is
meaningless in a job interview the
interviewer doesn't believe it he hears
every person says exactly the same thing
so how will you be different how will
you convince him that it's true with
examples specific stories specific
examples specific numbers when you say
for example and then you tell a story to
show your actions not just talk about it
but show specifically when you did
something and how you did it then you
give the interviewer a picture they
start they see you performing and this
will make you so much different than
most other interviewers most other
interviewers are two general you always
want to be specific in your answers
you always want to give an example for
everything everything everything every
answer should have at least one example
specific example don't just say you work
hard talk about a specific time when you
worked hard talk about the details about
how hard it was and i stayed up every
night until midnight then I would sleep
for four hours and then i got up at
eight the next morning and worked again
because this project was so important
that's a specific example of you working
hard talking about a specific example is
so powerful just saying I'm a hard
worker that sucks that's a week it's
everybody says that so when you prepare
you not only prepare for the all the
different questions you have to prepare
your examples you need you know 20 or 30
great examples from your past to show
that you work hard to show that you
solve problems to show that you can work
with other people well to show that you
know how to make money to show that you
know how to save money to show you that
you're not stupid or crazy or foolish or
difficult so that he come to work on
time all of those things right that
employers are looking for you need
specific stories specific examples to
show each of those things don't just say
it show it with specific examples
this makes you a super-powerful
interviewer they will remember you you
will get a lot more job offers when you
for example you should use that phrase
those two words in every single answer
you give I'm giving you this is a super
powerful secret it's simple it's simple
but see it takes time because you really
have to think about you going to think
about all the details the more detailed
your example the more detailed your
stories the better the more powerful the
detailed examples that's what's powerful
that's what's convincing that's what
sells yourself to the interviewer that's
what convinces them that you're special
that you are better than the others that
you're different that they should hire
now common question I get especially
from young people maybe just in college
and say well but I don't have any work
experience I don't have any examples
well you need to get examples that means
you need to get out and live your life
get out of the damn classroom stuff just
taking notes and taking tests that's all
useless get out in the real world and do
something useful then you will have the
stories then you will have the examples
how can you do that get a part-time job
even working at McDonalds or pizza
higher fast food that's still a job and
you can still show that you worked hard
that you were on time that you were good
working with other people that you could
handle money there are a lot of good
things that come from a job like that
that you can show just got to think
about it something else you can do is
volunteer volunteer for different groups
charity's events in your school or
outside of your school and again this
shows you can show leadership you can
show examples of hard work you can show
examples of getting results all of those
things you need to get out in the real
something don't just complain i don't
have a job yet because I've just been in
well that's no excuse you're going to
lose you're going to lose if you just
think that being in schools enough it's
everybody else interviewing also went to
school so just going to school it's not
enough so you better get your butt out
in the real world and do something
useful then you will have the examples
then you will have the stories and the
other guys won't you'll get the great
and of course as you get older it should
get easier because you get more and more
and more and more work experience and
life experience so you should have more
and more and more great stories great
examples of all the good things you've
done to prove to prove that you will be
useful and good and skillful and
hardworking and on time and all of those
things you want to prove it don't just
prove it this is also where having good
references can help i gave that one
example if you know you have a great
reference if you did good work for them
and you know they will say great things
about you mention them in the interview
actually encourage the interviewer to
call them say you know one of my
references is my last boss from my last
job and you know I completed a great
project that made fifty thousand dollars
for the company and he was very happy i
encourage you please you know call him
and talk to him about my work I know
that he's going to say great things you
can say it a little differently but you
know some people like that almost afraid
of their references you should have good
references so that you encourage the
interviewer because that's more proof
it's more evidence not just talking
everybody talks the more evidence and
specific examples you can give the
better the chance you get the job and
you get the better jobs and you get
higher pay and over the years as you get
older in your career your career will go
higher and higher better and better as
alright so that's it it's a simple one
today short but this is super powerful
super super powerful I want you to get
out there and get those great jobs you
can do it all right as usual all of the
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