What successful interviewees do

I'm a fan of advice that helps you break down a challenge into manageable parts. Aside from being a valuable life skill, this approach helps make problems smaller and reduce the anxiety around them. Anyone else up for a little anxiety reduction? I mean, like interview anxiety reduction.

Minal Mehta posted on LinkedIn today with some interview advice for job seekers and I really like what she had to say. Key take-aways:

1) Do research to identify the intersection of your skills and the position requirements and craft ready-to-go stories around those attributes. I like the concept of working backward from what the company would see as a good fit for the position.
2) Structure your answers using the STAR (situation, task, action, result) formula to draw your interviewer into your story.

You can read the article here.