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Execs who've worked at Google, Starbucks, and other top employers share their best advice for acing a job interview and landing your dream role

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You can replace "social media skills" with "technical skills," or "editing skills," or whatever it is that you're hoping to develop. Above all, you want to explain why the job isn't giving you the chance to grow or to take your career in the direction you'd like.

She's interested in why you made the choices you did."You can suss out things like ego," she said. "Is your ego focused on, 'I'm proud of doing the right thing in a way that's going to impact lots of people?' Or is your ego placed on, 'I did this and I did that and I am so great?'" Wharton professor Maurice Schweitzer and Columbia Business School professor Adam Galinsky: Be confident and deferential," Schweitzer and Galinsky argue that success — in business and in life — is a matter of competing and cooperating with others, often at the same time.

Say you met with a few people at the organization and they talked about the challenges they're facing. You could use comScore to do some research on their competitors and put together a graph with relevant statistics. In your email, you could say: "I think there's opportunity; I'd love to talk about it."

In her case, the role didn't even come to her through an interview; it came through a casual conversation with the managing director of Google Cloud in the CTO office. They discussed overlapping projects that they had worked on – and midway through the conversation, the managing directorInteractions like this are easier at Google, where employees are encouraged to try different roles within the organization. Chaleff had already been working at Google as a product manager for Google Drive.

 

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