Learning Through Helping

I spent quite a few hours helping a good friend prepare for an important interview today. My take aways:

1. Helping other people really clarifies my own thinking about topics and techniques
2. Using tone of voice, speed of talking, and gestures to emphasize are all really important. I need to practice more.
3. Take a moment to collect your thoughts before answering.
4. Decide on your three main advantages that make you the best candidate. Drive that home through each question, in a slightly different way. Use the bridge and stop technique to change the questions you don’t want to answer into an answer where you can go back to your three main advantages. Use the questions to build your narrative.
5. I’m a pretty good interviewer, but as an interviewee, I need more work. (Don’t we all)