Here Are The 5 Words

“How are your interviews going?”

It’s So, Stupidly, Simple. Here’s WHY It Works…

They’re on candidate number five. It’s Friday afternoon. They’ve got a checklist they pulled off an HR blog and they’ve listened to the same rehearsed answers since nine in the morning.

Nobody has treated them like a human being all day. You just did.

Their eyes come up off the papers. And whatever they say next:

Every one of those is a thread.

And threading is the single most important skill in an interview. Pull the thread, and the person deciding whether to hire you will tell you exactly what they’re looking for — before they’ve asked you a single question.

The five words are the easy part. Spotting a thread, knowing how to pull it, knowing how far to go, and knowing what to do when they hand you nothing back — that’s the whole skill. The full explanation of threading and how it works is in my book, 10,000 Interviews.

The rest is in your inbox. The four threads to pull, the exact follow-up questions, what to do when they give you nothing back, and the 58-second answer to “tell me about yourself.”

Look for the subject line “SUBJECT_LINE_HERE” — and drag it to your Primary tab so the next ones don’t get buried.

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