Show off your experiences

So now you’ve got your interview, and you are so close to that perfect internship or job, and you want to make sure that you can represent yourself in a way that shows the hiring manager that you would be a perfect fit for their company. How do you do that? Well one of the best ways is to conduct as much research as possible on that company. The more you know about the company, the more you can tailor your representation of your experiences to the position. Look for articles, press releases, videos, anything that is attached to the company that gives you an idea of what the culture is, and then think hard about how you bring out some of those in your experiences. For example, at the Weinstein Company in New York, a Marketing Coordinator’s desired qualities and skills include:
1) A professional appearance and telephone manner.
2) Must be able to interact and communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization. Position continually requires demonstrated poise, tact and diplomacy.

So if you were applying to this position, think about how some of your past experiences fit; maybe when you worked as a customer service agent, you had to deal with many different kinds of people; so you had to communicate effectively with different people -> that’s #2 on the list. Concrete examples also help a lot in demonstrating your capabilities, so show off as much as you can!