What Value Can You Bring To The Table?

What Value Can You Bring To The Table?

Through the years, I lost count of the interviews I hosted as the hiring manager for various roles cutting across management, leadership, associate and even entry-level job roles.  What Value Can You Bring To The Table?  Oh, that was my favorite one-line opener and I hope I DON'T get questioned for it because let's face it, the interview process is meant for the interviewee to impress that he/she is the best candidate for the job role and for us hiring managers, we'd like to short-list them and figure out the 'cream of the crop' before we make a decision📗📙📘

BUT whether it's a job interview process OR you are wooing the 'girl of your life' OR you are worming your way into a certain group WHO share the same advocacies you are pushing, we will likely end up with the same question 'WHAT WILL YOU BRING TO THE TABLE?"  And it's NOT a Mount Rushmore kind of question as long as you're sincere😀😀😀

BUT let's place things at the right perspective.  Either way, good people DON'T need to beg at all.  WHO like to?  And most people with healthy self-esteem WON'T do it either and WHO can blame them?  Nevertheless, if someone will pose you that question, IF you can stifle your nausea long enough to answer the question a different way, you might find that the 'questioner' is NOT a pompous idiot after all, BUT only someone WHO HASN'T questioned OR departed from that traditional script of asking that question.  And let's NOT feel slighted OR offended because that frame-shifting question is/was NOT meant to put you down at all❌❌❌

I always coasted with these Q&A kind of situations with an open mind.  NO way should you entertain NEGATIVITIES because that can even blur your thought process.  Moreover, I always harped on the analogy that for every product, there has to be a salesman and I always vouched that a product is as good as the salesman is [and NOT the other way]❎❎

Our takeaway:  I remember WHEN I was relatively a rookie in the workplace and there I was, ending up with job interviews every few years [no thanks to my headhunters then WHO permanently saved my CV/Resume's in their archives] and I always told myself, I can be the best product ever BUT everything hinges on my shoulder as to HOW I will sell my very own self as a product.  So, WHAT VALUE CAN YOU BRING TO THE TABLE?  Get back on your bare knuckles and rattle off that long list of exemplary and outstanding traits you have.  Good luck dude in your endeavors!!!