How to tackle the dreaded question “Why should we hire you?” in your next interview

“Why should we hire you?”

This is another of those questions everyone interviewing hates. It spread from traditional jobs into the tech world, and even software developers have to deal with it.

But you can turn this into a huge win, and this article shows you how.

Why is this question asked?

Like any of those pretty cliché questions regularly asked in interviews, interviewers try to determine whether you are a good fit. Your hard skills might have been assessed already or will be soon, but this one is about your character.

Even before the term EQ (emotional intelligence) became popular, there was more to employees than only the skills they brought with them. People are human. They have a character. And they need to get along with other people.

What interviewers try to assess here is how good you can sell yourself. And even more, they want to find out HOW you sell yourself. Interestingly, it can tell you a lot about someone else when you listen to how they talk about themselves. Is the candidate super arrogant? Are they introverts? Don’t they find the words to describe themselves? Do they only speak in superlatives? Yea, you are somehow being profiled when you…