How to ace your interview
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Interviews are crucial for showcasing your personality, skills, and knowledge to secure a job. Key preparations include understanding the company, dressing appropriately, reviewing your career history, and being ready with questions and examples. During the interview, focus on promoting your benefits, listening carefully, and maintaining a positive demeanor.
How to ace your interview
- 2. Interviews are an opportunity to present yourself to a company and sell your personality, skills and knowledge in order to secure a position and further your career. This presentation includes a number of key steps and considerations that can help you to perform to the best of your ability in any interview.
- 3. Before the interview • Have an early night • Plan your journey and leave enough time to reach your destination • Know who you’re meeting • Dress appropriately • Be clear on the company, name, address and telephone number (in case you need to contact them to let them know you’re running late) • Use the knowledge you have gained to match your skills to their requirements • Review your career history including your accomplishments, strengths and weaknesses • Be prepared to cite examples of specific accomplishments and how your experience can assist them • Look into the interviewer / company on social media • Prepare some questions to ask
- 4. During the interview • Smile, nod and don’t forget about eye contact • See the interviewer as a client instead of a potential employer and promote the benefits you offer. • Listen • Go into detail when answering questions • Ask Questions • Do NOT raise negative issues relating to your previous or future employer. • Breathe