One of the fundamental concepts I have come up with (not an original idea but not directly stolen as far as I know), is to steer the interview.
The idea is to take some control and steer the conversation towards your strengths.
Idea here is based on a few premises
1) interviewers are often not that prepared, they'll take your bait.
2) good interviewers go with the flow because its easier to.
3) taking control shows dominance and confidence.
The trick really is to have a few really great things you've done in mind. Say you were lead on some badass project or helped close some crazy deal. You don't want to just blurt it out, but instead you want to get the interviewer to ask you about it this project. You steer them towards your strength and then blow them away with your answer. I'd do this all the time when I interviewed. I know one analytic (Theta) really well and I'd always mention it and they would always bite and ask me what Theta is and I would describe it in such great detail that they'd say, "damn this guy knows his shit".
You really have a lot of opportunities to do this. You can write about these things on your resume. You can answer those generic questions "tell me about yourself" to lead towards these "great stories" of your strengths. The idea is that you want to flow the interview to something that makes you look good. If left to the interviewer.. who knows what they may ask. You don't want to take that chance.
I am not quite sure how I did it in the past.. but I was almost always able to steer an interview towards some obscure article I read or some detailed tech things that probably made me look like a hardcore badass. In reality I duped them all. You can do it too. I have to analyze how to make it work....
More on my new interviewing workshop in the coming months.
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