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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
What they're looking for is a convincing sales pitch. This is an opportunity to align your values and motivators with the work culture of their brand. Coming across as overly confident could make you seem arrogant, whereas being too humble can make you seem insecure or underqualified.

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
If you have an unparalleled skill set that proves you as an asset, don't leave that on the table. Offer insights as to how grounded and well-rounded you are. The qualifications of the other candidates they're interviewing will remain as much of a mystery to you as to how their interview performances compare to yours. Therefore, there's no point in competing with them when you deliver your answer. The only thing you have to go on is your own merits. If your noteworthy merits have contributed to your past employers, sing your own laurels by detailing how. The more tangibles you can deliver, the better.

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I have a pretty great attitude, regardless of the work I perform. I have a proven track record of motivating those working around me. I am the team's cheerleader, an enemy to none, and a friend to all. That combined with my hard skills and on-the-job training and leadership skills, I consider myself poised as a desirable candidate."

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