Doing This (Almost) GUARANTEES You Get Hired In A Job Interview!

Learn how storytelling and preparation can transform your job interview and almost guarantee you get hired.

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Key Takeaways

Preparation is not luck but readiness meeting opportunity.
Prepare answers for the top 10 common interview questions.
Use storytelling, especially origin stories, to build rapport and stand out.
Emotional connection and authenticity engage interviewers more than generic adjectives.
Storytelling creates a relaxed, friendly interview atmosphere, increasing hiring chances.

What the video covers

Storytelling in interviews shifts the dynamic from candidate to friend, building rapport and trust.
Preparation is key; those who succeed aren’t lucky but ready when opportunity arises.
Top 10 common interview questions every candidate should prepare for.
Avoid generic answers; instead, connect emotionally through personal origin stories.
Using an origin story demonstrates personality and relevance to the role.
Example story of being an early adopter and entrepreneur to illustrate how to answer 'tell us about yourself.'
Storytelling triggers positive chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin, making the interview more relaxed and conversational.
Interviewers treat you like a friend after effective storytelling, improving your chances.
Preparation combined with storytelling revolutionizes the way you approach job interviews.

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What is the most important thing to prepare for a job interview according to the video?

The most important thing is to prepare for the common interview questions and to use storytelling, especially origin stories, to build rapport and connect emotionally with the interviewer.

How does storytelling help in a job interview?

Storytelling helps by shifting the interview dynamic from a formal Q&A to a friendly conversation, triggering positive emotions and chemicals like dopamine, which makes the interviewer see you as a friend rather than just a candidate.

What are some of the top interview questions mentioned in the video?

The top questions include 'Tell us about yourself,' 'What are your strengths and weaknesses?', 'Why do you want to work here?', 'Where do you see yourself in five years?', and 'Do you have questions for us?' among others.

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When you invest three minutes into storytelling like that, all of a sudden they're not interviewing you as a potential candidate, they're interviewing you now as a friend. I find that the people who often get shortlisted for jobs and job opportunities are the ones

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who've just prepared, and you just think they're lucky. No, it's not luck. Well, it kind of is luck if you define luck as being preparation meeting opportunity. They've just prepared, the opportunity came along, they did the job interview,

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and because of the preparation, they got the opportunity. They seem lucky? Nope, they're just prepared. I've got a couple of friends in the recruiting space here in Australia, and I remember me messaging one of them named Jared, and I said, Jared

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what are the most common questions that I asked during a job interview? So I'm going to give you the top 10 list that he gave me. All right, you ready? This is the top 10 list of questions. The first

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one, inevitably, and you must be prepared for this question, whereas most people, they just go into the interview and go, I'm just going to wing it, I'll think in the moment, and, you know, just, just right, and then they fail at the

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first question that they know is already going to be asked. And the first question is, so in, tell us a little bit about yourself before we begin. That's the first question they always ask. Tell us about yourself. Make sure you've got

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something prepared for that, right? So I'll give you the 10. I'll fire them off at you. First one is tell us about yourself. Second one, classic, so tell us a bit about your strengths and weaknesses. Next, why do you want to work

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here? Where do you see yourself in five years? Is why should we hire you? Tell us about a challenge or conflict you faced at work and how you dealt with it. Seven, what is your greatest professional achievement? Eight, tell us why are you

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leaving your current job? Nine, how do you handle stress and pressure? Ten, classic one they always end on, so do you have questions for us? We know all of us, we know that these are the most common questions, yet we don't prepare. Do

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you know what most people do here? Most people give descriptive phrases about themselves, adjectives. They'll say things like, oh yeah, sure, my values are integrity, honesty, punctuality. My only weakness is that I'm a perfectionist, and I do things really well, right? No, no.

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Connect with people. This is where you build rapport. So if you want to build rapport, let's say, for example, I was applying, and we'll do some improv here. Okay, let's say, for example, I was applying for, I don't know, head of innovation

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at Apple or something. Okay, clearly I'm an Apple fan, massive Apple fan, Apple nerd. One day, hopefully, they'll bring me in. So I say I'm interviewing, they go, San, tell us a little bit about yourself. I can use a childhood story, and I call

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these origin stories. I think using an origin story when they say tell us a little bit about yourself is extremely powerful because it shows them who you are, it builds rapport, and if you can link that story into the position that

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you're applying for, match made in heaven. Hello Vin, welcome to Apple. We can tell you're very excited. You haven't been able to stop shaking your leg for the last 15 minutes while you're in the waiting room, but Vin, tell us before we

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begin, tell us a little bit about yourself. Thank you for noticing the leg shaking thing. Look, if I had to tell you a little bit about me, there's one memory that comes to mind. When I was young, I got to ask you this:

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What do you think a 13-year-old boy wants more than anything? A PlayStation? Sex? Well, close. Love. It's love. And thank you, Brad, for being so transparent, but I wanted to

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find love. And Brad, I remember asking my dad for advice, and I asked my dad, I said, Dad, I want to find love. What do I do? And do you know what my dad said to me? My dad looks me dead in the

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eyes, 13, and he goes, okay, no money, no honey, man. And I thought, damn it, Dad, that's really wise of you. It rhymes like Eminem. So I thought to myself, okay, how am I going to make money as a 13-year-old? And

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that's when I discovered eBay. And one of the things about me, Brad, is I'm an early adopter, so my friends didn't know what eBay was at the time. It was 1999. So I got on eBay, I borrowed my mom and dad's

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credit card, borrowed, and I purchased 30 MP3 players, and I sold them to my friends for double the price. I love entrepreneurship, and as a result of doing that, I made double the amount of money. Parents were truly pissed off, but

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that set me off on a journey. It set me on the journey of entrepreneurship. And as an entrepreneur my entire life, I'm an early adopter. So whether it comes to MP3 players, whether it comes to the latest AI that's coming out, one of the

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platforms I've been playing with is Yudo, and Yudo is a wonderful platform that can use AI to create music. Whether it's the Apple Vision Pro, I'm on it. I'm an early adopter, and I share this story about my past with you because that's

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why I'm applying for this role. I know that for someone in the head of innovation, you need someone that's not just saying the right things and talking about technology. You want someone who's actually an early adopter who's living

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and breathing things that are just coming out. I don't wait until it's cheaper. I don't wait until it's been in the market for three, four years. I'm the first one waiting in line in an Apple store, and when you release the Apple iPhone 16,

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you can bet your butt I'm going to be there at 6:00 a.m. I'm an early adopter. That's why I'm perfect for this role. Again, right? That's me spending about three and a half minutes, three and a half minutes sharing a story.

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Now there's laughing moments like, oh, no money, no honey, that's a good one. I built rapport. There's endorphins flowing through their body. I've been conversational. We're friends. I asked them questions the entire interview situation. Now it's relaxed again. You know

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that when you storytelling, dopamine, endorphins, oxytocin, all these wonderful chemicals. Now the rest of the interview, they're going to treat you like a friend. They're not going to sit there and be like question to question to question to

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question. No, when you invest three minutes into storytelling like that, all of a sudden they're not interviewing you as a potential candidate, they're interviewing you now as a friend. So create a wonderful origin story, and this is going

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to revolutionize the way you do job interviews.

Topics:job interviewinterview preparationstorytellingorigin storyjob interview tipsgetting hiredcareer adviceinterview questionsrapport buildingVinh Giang

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