What makes you think you are the right candidate for the job is a common question in interviews. Now what you must remember when going to any interview is out of all the people that applied for the job, you have already been chosen to go for an interview which mean the employers already like what they know of you from you CV, personal statement and references. So remember to be confident and stay calm, all you have to do now is prove to them that what they think about you is correct and add any extra details which make you sound even better that you couldn’t fit on your CV and personal statement.
Once you’ve done all these things, we come back round to answering the question what makes you think that you are the right candidate for the job. So you’ll have already answered several questions, as this is usually the last question to be asked in a job interview. Those questions will have been things like what would you do in a set scenario or what do you think of the company coming from outside of it. But this question, ‘what makes you think you are the right candidate for the job’ is much more of a personal question. You have to answer with the true reason you think you are best for the job by informing them of what experience you have that will help you do well at the job, as well as the things you want to give to the job and ideas that you may have. But you have to do that without sounding arrogant. However that doesn’t mean that you can’t big yourself up as that’s exactly what you need to do, but make sure you are doing that in the correct professional way. Also, as a way of finishing your answer to this question it’s always useful to say what you hope to gain from the job such as the skills and experiences.
Once you’ve done all these things, we come back round to answering the question what makes you think that you are the right candidate for the job. So you’ll have already answered several questions, as this is usually the last question to be asked in a job interview. Those questions will have been things like what would you do in a set scenario or what do you think of the company coming from outside of it. But this question, ‘what makes you think you are the right candidate for the job’ is much more of a personal question. You have to answer with the true reason you think you are best for the job by informing them of what experience you have that will help you do well at the job, as well as the things you want to give to the job and ideas that you may have. But you have to do that without sounding arrogant. However that doesn’t mean that you can’t big yourself up as that’s exactly what you need to do, but make sure you are doing that in the correct professional way. Also, as a way of finishing your answer to this question it’s always useful to say what you hope to gain from the job such as the skills and experiences.
