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I'll see you guys in the course All right guys, let's jump right into the problem with interviewing and software engineers trying to get a job a lot of you guys drop the ball in the interview for multiple reasons You're nervous or you're not prepared You got a lot of things going on and I want to help you guys really get this under control Put yourself in position so that you can showcase your skills and really get in front of the interview or interviewer With a lot of value with a lot of confidence. Don't be as nervous and kind of give you guys some tips Five tips on how to do this guys So what I need you guys to do is to share your experience below in the comments on You know what have been your experience so far? What are you struggling with when it comes to the interview so that we can have a conversation below? So go ahead and do that comment below on what you are struggling with when it comes to Software engineering or development interview so that we can start a conversation below on that being said guys The takeaway from this video is Preparation preparation you're gonna always have a certain level of nervousness when you're going into a new situation That's gonna that's the nature of the piece But to reduce that nervousness is Preparation, you know a lot of you guys come to a situation haven't prepared Don't know what to say don't know anything about the company is a lot of things that you can do To really put yourself in a more confident position You don't do that. So the nervousness is high you worried about so many different things that you know You really put yourself in a position to drop the ball in interview We want to bring that down to the point where we keep the nervousness at a minimum So once you get in there you start to Answer questions you see that they like you everything good that nervousness just goes away and it just becomes a conversation And that's why I tell you guys The key thing in an interview guys, I don't like the word interview because it seems like You're coming to them good gracious Accept me when it should be a back and forth, you know, I'm interviewing you guys just as much as you interview me So I like the proposal route I want them to see me as a solution to their problems And we're just having general discussions to make sure that hey, we're a good fit the money's right The culture's right the actual Skillset and can I solve their problems? I want that to be out of the off the table because that's a given you hurry You see my resume You just confirming that I have knowledge you have those questions up front and it should just be a fit That's what you want your interview to be guys you want them You want them before you leave out at building like man We need to give them him or her a offer because they are high value Developers and they are going to get a job soon. We want to be in front of that We don't let we don't want that guy to leave out this door without getting a job offer Because that's how much they want you guys. So I got some I got some tips here. I wanted to go over. I got five here I want to make sure I cover that and go through that guys if you haven't already Go ahead and sign up for my free seven-step guide. 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Well, there's gonna be always questions You don't have a answer force for as far as just directly Experience with that particular program language or that piece of software but what you can do though is Know what piece of software they use or have a general idea of what that software is and compare that to something you've done in the past The equivalent the cross-reference the translation to let them know that hey Even though I don't have experience with that particular piece of software that particular programming language I can still Do that because I've done it over here. It's just if you know one two three over here in English You're gonna know one two three over here Spanish You just got to make the translation and you're right there within a couple of Times of learning that so you got to do that when it comes to programming guys That's gonna be the key here You want to do that as far as just the programming language number two knowledge of the company and industry This is one where you guys really dropped ball at because you come in just knowing that hey They just need a software developer. I just need to know the programming skills and all that stuff Which that's a huge part of it But in 2021 going forward to really stand out. You need to have at least a general understanding of the industry What are the major components? What are the major softwares? How do they do business? Who are the key players in the industry? What are the common problems whether they come in tech stacks? You need to know that information because knowing that information puts you far ahead of the developers who don't because they see that Hey, they got specific industry knowledge on this that means that's less training for you You get it get on board it faster You're gonna be a better fit because you already know all the stuff that they got to go through and tell people up Front this give you a huge advantage in the interview and kind of get you your eyes right there So learn that stuff guys and be ready to last but not least be ready to showcase your Projects your projects is the key thing that's going to answer all the questions up front and get all of that Can they do the job off the table because they're gonna say show me some of your old work You don't necessarily have to have the most pretty portfolio. You can just go over some of the things Maybe have a website or something like that. Just sold some projects with primary Management system software that you've done in the past That answers all their questions if you have those projects on the table That can say hey, these are problems or projects. I completed are solved in the past This is how it's similar to what you have. I can do this for you That's where you want to be that's where it the interview shift to not being interviewed to a proposal Are we a good fit? Are you can I pay you enough money to get in? Because I know you are the person for my company from a technical perspective Let's get all the Intangible stuff out of way now as far as just company culture the money all that good stuff That's where you want to be and that's where I try to get you guys to go when it comes to my seven-step guide and my Toolkit guys links are below for both Because a lot of people focus on the technology to what you should but you got to allocate some time also with Industry their tech stack the technology some of the problems that they use put all of the get into a nice solution and say here I can do this for you. You don't have to worry about it. Just pay me lots of money So guys, what's your what's your opinion comment below? Do you agree with me comment below? Do you get this agree with me comment below? Let's start a conversation below. 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