Phil Rosenberg’s Interview like a Rock Star at Secrets of the Job Hunt gives 16 excellent points on coming across like a “rock star” candidate in an interview. He breaks the process down into two main sections: preparation and execution. Here’s a quick summary; click through to the full article for details.

Preparation

• Research
• Ask yourself what challenges the company is likely to face along the way. What problems are likely to arise that your Subject Matter Expertise can uniquely solve.
• Write a Rock Star resume - one that presents a solution to problems your target company faces. Throw out the old biographical resume.
• Bait your resume with a few partial statements, and leave your audience curious to learn more, helping you to control the interview by what you’ve left out of your resume.
• Ask questions to draw out problems and implications - of problems you can uniquely solve.
• Anticipate - What questions will the interviewer ask you? Practice answering questions in a positive manner, while still telling the truth.

Execution

• Dress the part
• Open - Stand tall, maintain eye contact, smile, and use a firm handshake.
• Initial impressions count - people form an initial impression of you in the first 30 seconds.
• Control the interview
• Eye contact - Maintain eye contact while talking.
• You control the interview and demonstrate both Subject Matter Expertise and leadership by asking questions.
• Turn negatives to positives
• Close - Closing techniques will take a number of future posts to cover. In general, close by gaining some sort of feedback, and time/action commitment to next steps.
• Re-Close - Send a thank you note.

Check out Phil’s ReCareered blog - great resume and job hunting info.