How can I land this job?

I have applied for a job transfer within my company to move from PA to KY. I am extremely interested in this position and am willing to work my hardest to achieve it. I am currently a Lease Accountant - really an assistant - and the position I applied for was a Leasing Manager. I know I am extremely qualified for the position and am completely deserving, but other people within that KY office have also applied for the job and they are not looking like bad applicants even though I am more educated and more aware of the leasing position. These other associates do have one up on me because they have worked within the KY office and have operations awareness, but I still feel I am the one for the job. I want to be confident with my interview today at 3pm, but I am not sure what I can do to prepare for this interview to ensure I have this confidence in the interview. Help!!! Thank you.

address and pre empt any hesitations on you.

if you feel that the local knowledge will flip you over address that and reassure them you can do it.

i was once in such a position that i knew i could easily be scrapped by competition so i made sure i came to my interview prepared.

when they asked me what value I could bring to their company I made sure to enumerate and highlight my best points and address the weakness as they perceived of me. you could do this by saying:


I know that I am not alone when I expressed interest in this position, I acknowledge that you have a lot of great choices as most of the applicants have already been working in there for so many years, and you cannot discount the power of local knowledge. I in my own right believe that I am of equal competencies as those people in there.

But what I bring is freshness, I bring them good challenge. Knowing I am new there I will try my very hard to prove myself and continiously prove to you and the management that I am worth all the chances you give me. and with that I see a good challenge in those people to also do their best and committ their all.

Being new there I am a very good source of new ideas, of innovativeness that has never been thought about because they stand too close, being new there, I will learn the system and perhaps find a way to better it.

My moving in a new place if ever never appeared to me as a disadvantage or a weakness, I am very adoptable and very open to challenges I face everyday. I don't view it as moving out of PA or moving in KY, I view it as me moving forward.

GL hope this helps.

Go to that interview like you know you've already got the job! Let them know that your aware that others from that office has applied for the position, But you know that you can do the job, and do it well. I always say that if you go in looking like you've rehearsed what your going to say, there going to be less likely to hire you. Be yourself, be confident, and if its meant to be, It'll happen for you.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya! Good luck