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Are you looking at changing career? Are you looking for
work? Have you been invited to a job interview? Are you
looking for advice about interview techniques? If you
have answered yes to any of these questions, this
article may well be of help to you. I am going to give
advice and information about how to be successful when
attending a job interview. In my opinion preparation
is the key to most things in life and it certainly is
for people who want to gain employment.
When I was in my early twenties, I decided to leave
the company where I had worked since leaving school. I
wanted to become a financial advisor and had already
passed all of the relevant examinations. Now all I
needed to do, was to a find a company who was willing to
take me on.
I decided to join a specialist financial services
agency to help me with my search. I went and met a man
who had been assigned my case etc. His name was Mark and
he was very professional and knew his stuff. He quickly
managed to secure me an interview and asked if I would
meet him so that I could have a dummy run with him. He
was aware that I had not attended an interview for a
number of years and probably felt that I needed the
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To say that he was not impressed with my interview
technique was an understatement and he quickly started to
give me advice of where I needed to improve.
This is what he advised me to do:
Produce a personal profile of myself. This should include
my c.v, any examination certificates, any other
qualifications that I have such as first aid, information
about my interests and anything else that makes me look good
etc. This should all be put into a quality folder and can
then be presented to the people conducting the interview
when they ask me to talk about myself. They will see how
much effort I have put in and will hopefully be impressed.
Try to predict what questions will be asked and prepare
good quality answers to these questions. This is something
which sounds so obvious but which I had never done before.
When you have attended each interview you then try to
remember all of the questions which were asked and then add
them to your list. When returning home, you then think about
the best way to answer these questions in the future, if
they are ever asked again.
Find out information about the company with whom the
interview is with. You may be asked at the interview if you
know anything about the company you are hoping to join. It
will sound a lot better if you can reel off a number of
important facts rather than just saying something which is
obvious. To find out this type of information you can use
the internet, ask friends or go to the library.
On the day of the interview it is a good idea to have a
bath before you go. A bath is a well known form of
relaxation and can help to soothe and loosen up your
muscles.
These tips that Mark gave me soon helped me to find work
and I hope that they help you in your quest to gain future
employment.
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