What makes you unique?
What are hiring managers
really asking in the job interview when they ask about what makes you
unique? Well, they don’t want to know about what makes you special on a personal level.
They want to know what makes you unique in relation to the job you’re
interviewing for. Essentially, they’re asking, “Why should we hire
you?” “Why should we choose you over everyone else?” “What makes
you different from the other candidates?”
What
makes you unique is your individual blend of education, experiences, skill
sets, and personality. Sometimes it’s not the particular job on
your resume that
makes you appeal to hiring managers. Sometimes it’s an aggregate of the
different pieces that you’re bringing to the table. Maybe you have
strong communication skills, and experience in the
industry, and experience in advertising and that ends up being the mix that
attracts that hiring manager to you.
Think
about what makes you unique and what makes you
valuable, and then think about WHY it makes you valuable. You can even
quantify your answer of how in the past, your blend of experiences has proven
valuable to previous employers.
“Because
of my background in X, I was uniquely positioned to take advantage of Y when I
worked on ABC project. I completed it faster and with better results than
anyone else in the company.”
How to Answer Interview Questions?
If the quality or the success rate of
your work is outstanding, that’s valuable to an employer because it saves them
time, money, and aggravation. But you have to think about why it is that
you are especially successful and be able to articulate that.
Whatever
you say, now is the time to brag. You must show that your particular
blend of education, experiences, skill sets and personality is the solution
they need to solve the problems they have.
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