Storytelling – Job Interview

Challenge and Selection

Storytelling is an awesome tool that helped me give a great job interview. I am a Petroleum Engineer  that was struggling to find a job in my area, and I started to look for the possibility to work in other  places. Normally in job interviews when they ask you a question you immediately respond the question  and one doesn’t give any further information rather than what they are asked. I have been taking some  job interviews with no success in getting the job, so I decided to do something different and add  storytelling about some experiences I have done related to the job in Logistics.

Application

When they asked me what kind of experience I have related to the job that was for an assistant of  warehouse; instead of saying that I didn’t have any job experience, I started telling two types of stories  that I had in the past and present. One was explaining that I had been in the student society of my  University and we had to plan different type of events so everything could go as planned with the place,  drinks, music, and others. In other words, I explained that I helped with the logistics for the events. And  the other story I told how I became a low percentage owner of a bar and that I helped with the  inventory of the food and drinks.

Insight and Approach

I never thought that these two little stories would help me get the job, I just thought I had to change the  game so I could do something different. Who would have imagined that the storytelling got me the job?  In the future when I’ll have another job interview, I will start doing more storytelling with things related  to the job because it helps a lot in job interviews.

