How do you answer the question: “why do you want to work for us?” in an interview?

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Well. Why DO you want to work there?

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Always answer vapid questions with appropriately delivered beauty pageant answers. It will make the idiot asking them feel better. And that's the only point.

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Plenty of other advice on what to talk about. Here's what not to talk about: don't talk about the problems with the place you currently work.
When I ask that question I'm looking for someone who wants to be here and who gives enough of a crap to think about why they want it, versus someone who just doesn't want to be at their current shop. Minus a few caveats, almost any other answer that conveys passion will suffice, frankly.

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If you know anyone that works for the company, echo what they have told you they love about working there. Or if you’ve done multiple interviews, share something a previous interviewer said they love about working there, and talk about why you connect with that.

Alternately, find 1-2 aspects of the company (via values on their website, expressly stated company priorities, corporate initiatives, interviews with leadership, etc.) you connect with and explain why those are important to you. This doesn’t mean just regurgitating the agency’s tagline - I mean find something about the company that really does matter to you so you can talk about it genuinely.

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"It seems like a good place to spend my time while I await notification my sleeper cell has been activated."

"What?"

"I admire the work here."

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Does anyone use Google anymore? Because you can find this in 1.6 seconds on Google.

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You can talk about their past work that you like. You can talk about a person in there you like the work of... Their clients, their “culture”... Basically they probably want know you made your due diligence.

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Be honest. Speak from the ❤️.

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Cautionary tale—I was just cut out of running for a job I really wanted after giving the Creative Services Director an honest answer to this question and mentioning money as a factor. It’s extremely disappointed as the call well incredibly well otherwise. It’s tough to see agencies not value honesty in these situations.

So... learn from me and don’t mention that smh.

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Yeah never mention money. Any place can pay you. You gotta go deeper. It just comes off like you didn’t research the place. Culture, collaboration, admiring the leaders and their vision, a place you can grow, a place where you believe in the work they’re doing, etc. Just never mention money, no matter how bad you need it.

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Do your research. Find recent articles and press mentions and speak to those- hopefully you will find something inspiring and interesting. Maybe they’ve had a lot of growth recently, have increased their D&I initiatives, executed amazing campaigns, won a bunch of gold lions, you hear the culture is amazing lol ... the possibilities are endless. Also echoing earlier comments- why do you ~actually~ want to work there? (Besides a paycheck.)

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I dont understand—isnt there a reason you want to work there? Didnt they do some work you like? Havent you heard from someone that they like it? You didnt just step out of a time machine into an interview and not even know what kind of company it is. Dont you have an answer? What are you asking here?

Speak to how your strengths/experience will compliment the aspects you like most about the agency. At the end of the day it needs to be about what you’ll do for them.

Play Money Talks by AC/DC on my phone

“Its a role where i dont just see a job but a potential career growth” . In the end all they wanna know is u r worth spending the effort on training and retaining.

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