{"id":12182,"date":"2022-02-10T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=12182"},"modified":"2022-02-10T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:23:07","slug":"what-to-say-when-an-interviewer-asks-why-do-you-want-this-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/what-to-say-when-an-interviewer-asks-why-do-you-want-this-job\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Say When an Interviewer Asks \u201cWhy Do You Want This Job?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/author\/lily-zhang\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/author\/lily-zhang\">Lily Zhang<\/a><br>Re-posted from The Muse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"369\" data-attachment-id=\"12183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/what-to-say-when-an-interviewer-asks-why-do-you-want-this-job\/image-1-12\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?fit=876%2C462&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"876,462\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?fit=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?fit=700%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?resize=700%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?w=876&amp;ssl=1 876w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?resize=768%2C405&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we had to wager on which questions are *most* likely to come up in any and every job interview, \u201cWhy do you want this job?\u201d would definitely be a top contender, probably neck and neck with \u201cTell me about yourself.\u201d So do yourself a favor and make sure you\u2019re fully prepped and ready to tell your interviewer exactly why you\u2019re interested in the position in a way that\u2019ll convince them you\u2019re the LeBron of hires. (Hint: Make sure you focus on <em>this<\/em> job at <em>this<\/em> company. Seriously, be <em>specific<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/3-steps-for-answering-why-do-you-want-this-job?sc_src=email_1989656&amp;sc_lid=182044270&amp;sc_uid=dw67sgD3xt&amp;sc_llid=217697&amp;sc_eh=8e0316a003f2d38e1&amp;utm_source=emarsys&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=daily_20220202_Spon_90Day_1989656&amp;utm_content=sponsored&amp;utm_term=_&amp;uid=789339376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ ON<\/a> just a few to get you started.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lily ZhangRe-posted from The Muse If we had to wager on which questions are *most* likely to come up in any and every job interview, \u201cWhy do you want this job?\u201d would definitely be a top contender, probably neck and neck with \u201cTell me about yourself.\u201d So do yourself a favor and make sure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1436,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[935],"class_list":["post-12182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jobs-and-internships","tag-job-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2016\/03\/The-Muse-logo.png?fit=203%2C118&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-3au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12185,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182\/revisions\/12185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}