the best response to "why should we hire you"

[EMRGLOBAL]

you mention that you'r a daytrader and they either:

Laugh you outa the office as you'r looking for a job.

look at you with a blank face, tell you how they use to trade on etrade and never hire you.

Ask you why you spent the last X years in a business where you couldn't make money and then think you'r fucking stupid.

The will ask you 'What skills" did you aquire while trading the apply to the position.

Offer you a job in the Mail Room.

 

[cdowis]

Doesn't matter.

You need to find out what this person will be doing, and fit the example to it. Focus on what you will bring to the company by specific examples of what you have done.

"Why should I hire you?"

Tell a story== "This was the problem and what I did to fix it".

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from EMRGLOBAL:
----Laugh you outa the office....
----look at you with a blank face....
----never hire you.
----they think you're fucking stupid.
----Offer you a job in the Mail Room.

Do you also use the alias, "brokenmarkets"? :eek:

 

[LEAPup]

Quote from Ghost of Cutten:

Cmon, you have to be kidding. These kind of arrogant answers turn interviewers right off. It just reeks of insecurity, and smarmy salesman bullshit. George Soros himself could interview with me, and if he said some crappy Boiler Room line like that, I'd kick him out of the office.

Agreed! The interview would end immediately with a smart answer like "I walk on water."

I wonder what it would be like working around someone arrogant enough to tell the boss @ first interview that "they walk on water?"

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from LEAPup:
----The interview would end immediately with a smart answer like "I walk on water."
----I wonder what it would be like working around someone arrogant enough to tell the boss at the first interview that "they walk on water?"

1) If your name is Jesus H. Christ, it's a reasonable and proper statement to make.
2) How do you really discern a "Paul Tudor Jones" from a "Joe Schmoe"?

 

[Ghost of Cutten]

Quote from nazzdack:


2) How do you really discern a "Paul Tudor Jones" from a "Joe Schmoe"?

Not by conventional interviewing or employee assessment traits. For example, Tudor Jones got *fired* by his main trader employer (Eli Tullis, a big cotton guy) for sleeping at his desk during the working day! Within 10 years, Jones was stinking rich and the best fund manager on the planet. Tullis in the space of 5 seconds cost himself hundreds of millions of dollars, more than he made in his entire business career, by that horrific blunder.

 

[Visaria]

I would say it's possible that Tullis gave Tudor Jones the kick which spurred him to becoming stinking rich etc

 

[nutmeg]

Quote from cdowis:

Doesn't matter.

"Why should I hire you?"

Tell a story== "This was the problem and what I did to fix it".

My favorite.

When self emplyed, you have to answer this question with every prospective client whether they ask you directly or not.

 

[nutmeg]

Quote from nazzdack:

12) How do you really discern a "Paul Tudor Jones" from a "Joe Schmoe"?

Joe Schmoe's yahoo id is Paul Tudor Jones.

 

[spread_trader11]

Quote from OTCkrak:

ive had this question thrown at me a few times and i finally came up with the best answer.

why should we hire you?

"aside from being qualified and motivated for this position, if you hire me, im saving you the time and effort of having to interview other candidates."

can you top that?

Because I am F@!#@ smart.