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Lewis Lin – Interview Coach

Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 posted by Bill in Videos

Lewis Lin is an interview coach at http://www.SeattleInterviewCoach.com .

He says  "I have been coaching job seekers for five years. I earned my Masters of Business Administration from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and my Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Stanford University.

I’ve been working at Microsoft in various marketing, product management, and product planning roles. Prior to Microsoft, I’ve worked at Google, Citigroup, & Sun Microsystems.

Over the last five years, I’ve interviewed over 150 candidates for marketing, product management, and program management positions at Google and Microsoft."

From his blog are some "Common Job Interview Questions and Answers "

Review the most common job interview questions below, craft your own responses, and read my suggestions on how to approach and answer each one.

Tell me about yourself.
In this blog post, I offer suggestions on how to answer this popular, yet sometimes awkward job interview question, using examples from Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey.
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/03/interview-tip-tell-me-about-yourself.html

What’s your biggest failure?
In this blog post, I offer suggestions on how to answer this popular, yet sometimes awkward job interview question, using examples from Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey.
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/02/interview-tips-on-answering-whats-your.html

What’s your biggest weakness?
In this short post, I discuss the secret to answering the greatest weakness question.
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/01/how-to-answer-what-is-your-biggest.html

In this longer post, I analyze Obama’s response to a variant of the common biggest weakness interview question, drawing from an interview between Katie Couric and Obama.
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/01/ace-your-job-interview-questions-like.html

What is your leadership style?
Katie Couric asks Obama and John McCain an alternative of the "leadership style" job interview question. In the second section of the blog post, I analyze the differences between Obama’s stronger response and McCain’s mediocre response to this question.
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/01/ace-your-job-interview-questions-like.html

What are the biggest opportunities and challenges in the industry?
In the final part of the blog post, I look at how Obama conveys credibility, intelligence, and dramatic effect in his response to this interview question.
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/01/ace-your-job-interview-questions-like.html

Job Search Advice

In addition to advice on answering the most popular interview questions, my blog features tips on the job search in general.

How to Handle Rejection
In this post, I offer my top tips on how to cope after an interview rejection.
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/02/job-interview-tips-how-to-handle.html

How to Handle a Lunch Interview
Here are my top three tips on how to handle the lunch interview.
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/02/interview-tip-how-to-handle-lunch.html

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