{"id":217615,"date":"2019-11-26T07:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/how-to-ace-a-digital-marketing-job-interview"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:57:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:57:21","slug":"how-to-ace-a-digital-marketing-job-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/how-to-ace-a-digital-marketing-job-interview","title":{"rendered":"How to Ace a Digital Marketing Job Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"194.471366509\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FInxmMiX0SM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p> You got this opportunity for this amazing digital marketing job, but you\u2019re nervous, you\u2019re stressed out. What questions are they going to ask you? What should you prepare? What happens if something goes wrong and you don\u2019t have the right answer? Will you lose the job? Will you get it? Today I\u2019m going to teach you how to ace that digital marketing job interview.<\/p>\n<p>RESOURCES &amp; LINKS:<br \/>____________________________________________<br \/>The Most On Demand Digital Marketing Skills in 2019 (High-Income Skills to Master) : https:\/\/youtu.be\/yyitwdk4QmY<\/p>\n<p>How to Start A Career in Digital Marketing in 2019 : https:\/\/youtu.be\/DoLzQN1m7sU<br \/>____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Tip number one, give past examples.<\/p>\n<p>Look, if you\u2019re going for an interview at a digital marketing job and you can show that you\u2019ve done amazing stuff in the past, you\u2019re going to be better off.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have examples of client stuff that you\u2019ve done or stuff that you did for other jobs or other companies, well what you should consider doing in the short-run is creating your own website.<\/p>\n<p>When you create your own website and you start doing experiments, at least you can show that.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s better than nothing else out there. <\/p>\n<p>Another tip, when you\u2019re interviewing, look at the company you\u2019re applying to.<\/p>\n<p>See how they could improve. Go into the interview being like, \u201cHey, are you open to suggestions? \u201cWell, based on what I can see, what you\u2019re doing, \u201cwhat your competition\u2019s doing, I would do one, two, \u201cand three that\u2019s different. \u201cHave you tested these things out? \u201cIf so, what are the results?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re not sure to figure out what they\u2019re doing versus what their competitors are doing, check out tools like Ubersuggest.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing, I hate it when people interview with me and they use fancy words. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t try to use buzz words or fancy words to show that you\u2019re smart. <\/p>\n<p>Tell me how I can fix stuff. If you can\u2019t tell me how I can fix stuff, I don\u2019t care. <\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s go over some of the most common questions.<\/p>\n<p>#1 What is your experience with digital marketing?<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t break down what you\u2019ve done, whether it\u2019s for someone else or your own experience running your own website, you\u2019re going to have a tough time getting the job.<\/p>\n<p>What are your qualifications?<\/p>\n<p>How do you learn digital marketing?<\/p>\n<p>You need solid answers for this. And typically, you want to focus. Your qualifications shouldn\u2019t be you\u2019re a jack of all trades.<\/p>\n<p>The market\u2019s changing. People aren\u2019t really hiring jack of all trades.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re hiring people who specifically specialize in tactics like SEO, pay-per-click, Facebook Advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, we have people in my ad agency, Neil Patel Digital, that just specialize in Facebook Advertising.<\/p>\n<p>We have a whole different group of people that just specialize in Google AdWords.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s okay to specialize. Companies prefer that.<\/p>\n<p>And we tend to hire people who specialize versus generalists. Because the ones who specialize, yeah they may not be able to do everything, but the things they do do, they\u2019re going to do a much better job at it.<\/p>\n<p>You also want to ask yourself, \u201cHey, what would you do differently in that company, in that marketing department?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not just from tactical on the site, could be structurally.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it may be, if you can\u2019t answer that, then you\u2019re probably not going to do too well in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>And it can\u2019t just be some general answers like, \u201cOh yeah, I would test out SEO, I would test out content marketing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It needs to be specific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I noticed that your competitors blog on a lot of educational advice, and based on this data that I found from Ubersuggest, they\u2019re getting traffic and backlinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you see how I went really specific in that?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what people want to see when you\u2019re being interviewed. <\/p>\n<p>You also are probably going to be asked, what digital marketing tools do you use?<\/p>\n<p>How would you deploy them if you got this job?<\/p>\n<p>How would you use them? <\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t want to give generic answers like, \u201cI use Google Analytics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone says they use Google Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>You need to get very specific and actually show if you want to say, \u201cI use Google Analytics,\u201d you\u2019ll be like, \u201cWell I use Google Analytics and I know you guys do too but have you guys been checking out the cohort report? What a cohort report does is it shows you how many people are continually coming back to your site. If they continually come back, you\u2019ll build a stronger brand. If they don\u2019t, you won\u2019t build a strong brand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those are the types of questions people are going to ask, and when you have answers to them, that\u2019s how you ace your job.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba If you need help growing your business check out my ad agency Neil Patel Digital @ https:\/\/neilpateldigital.com\/ <\/p>\n<p>\u25baSubscribe: https:\/\/goo.gl\/ScRTwc to learn more secret SEO tips.<br \/>\u25baFind me on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/neilkpatel\/<\/p>\n<p>#CareerAdvice #NeilPatel #DigitalMarketing <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FInxmMiX0SM\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/how-to-ace-a-digital-marketing-job-interview\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You got this opportunity for this amazing digital marketing job, but you\u2019re nervous, you\u2019re stressed out. 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