Ask for the Job

• 00:05 So you've accomplished everything you want at the job interview,
• 00:07 you feel like it went well.
• 00:09 How do you end it?
• 00:11 You don't want to just look at your watch.
• 00:12 I know you've got other people to interview, let me get out of here.
• 00:16 You don't want to wait for the person who's been interviewing you to say, well,
• 00:19 we're out of time.
• 00:20 Get out of here.
• 00:22 You need some way of concluding that's graceful and
• 00:25 that's positive and that ends with the ask.
• 00:30 What I mean by that is in a sincere way, a non-pushy way, ask for the job.
• 00:37 Now be sincere about this.
• 00:38 Sometimes you get into a job interview and you can tell, you would hate this job,
• 00:42 it's not a good fit.
• 00:44 They wouldn't like you, you wouldn't like them, which case you just thank people for
• 00:48 their time.
• 00:50 But let's say you're in a job interview, it goes well,
• 00:52 it seems like a great company or a great organization.
• 00:54 You'd like to work there.
• 00:57 You legitimately think you're a good fit and you have the skills.
• 01:02 Don't just thank the person and say, thanks for your time.
• 01:06 Instead sum up, say,
• 01:07 I really appreciate you taking the time to tell me more about your company.
• 01:12 Now that I know X, Y and Z, and mention something specific,
• 01:17 I think that really is a perfect fit for me based on X, Y and
• 01:21 Z, something else in your background.
• 01:24 Tie in together your strengths, your passions.
• 01:28 Bring in something new that came out from this job interview, show the person
• 01:33 you're really listening to them, but make the case how this is a good fit.
• 01:38 And then the final thing is, and you gotta be sincere about this,
• 01:42 show a moment of reflection.
• 01:44 Now that I think about this, I really think this would be a good fit.
• 01:49 I would like to have this job, and I sincerely hope you consider me for
• 01:53 this job.
• 01:54 Ask, again, you don't want to seem pushy.
• 01:58 You certainly don't want to seem desperate.
• 02:00 It's like, please give me this job or I'm going to get kicked out of my apartment.
• 02:04 No, you never want to seem like you need a job.
• 02:09 But there's nothing wrong with seeming like you'd really like this job.
• 02:14 You're not stating I have 50 other job offers.
• 02:18 You're not implying it directly, but
• 02:20 there has to be not a single whiff of desperation or intense need.
• 02:24 Instead it has to be you've thought about it, you like what you hear today,
• 02:28 you're implying this has been a mutual interview,
• 02:31 I'm interviewing you to see if your company is good enough for me.
• 02:35 I've thought about it, and I have concluded this is a good fit.
• 02:40 So not only thank you for your time, but thank you for your consideration.
• 02:44 I would in fact like this job.
• 02:48 Ask for the job.
• 02:49 We've all heard the story of a politician who spend a lot of time with a voter and
• 02:55 the voter said he liked the politician.
• 02:57 Or she liked the politician but didn't vote for him.
• 02:59 And you say why?
• 03:01 He didn't ask for my vote.
• 03:03 A lot of times in life you don't get if you don't ask.
• 03:07 So my recommendation is ask, in a non-threatening,
• 03:12 non-pushy, non-needy way, ask for the job.
• 03:17 Do that and then there's no doubt whatsoever in the mind of the interviewer
• 03:22 that if everything else fits, you would be a good selection for this job.
• 03:28 Good luck with your job interviews, and good luck with your career.

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