Hired: Actively listen to interview questions before responding
- East Valley Tribune: Business  Hired: Actively listen to
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Updated: 2:55 pm, Sun Aug 5, 2012.    Successful salespeople
learn to ask "leading" questions of customers to learn of needs
that will be satisfied by their products and services. But, they
will learn little if they aren't prepared to listen -- actively
listen.   You are the product and the sale (job) will come much
easier if you listen to the employer's needs. As former
President Calvin Coolidge said, "No one ever listened themselves
out of a job." You must listen to the employer's needs before
you can present yourself as a solution to those needs.  Say what
you mean in a mature, business-like way, leaving nothing to be
"read between the lines." Be brief, be concise; but say what you
mean. Since many hiring authorities lack this skill, you must be
prepared to as