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1.Bring a copy of your resume to every job interview. If the interviewer has misplaced the one you sent, you’ll save a lot of time by just handing a fresh one over.
2. Arrange your credentials in a single file for easy access. It is easy to mistake nervous for disorganized.
3. Map out the route to the interview location before the Day so that you can arrive 10-15 minutes earlier.
4. Have a nice haircut/ hairdo, neat nails, shine your shoes, iron your cloth and brush your teeth.
5. Prepare for common interview questions
Pick a good interview book with common questions and pick out the ones you are most likely to be asked based on your age and status. This will help save you from fumbling.
Pick a good interview book with common questions and pick out the ones you are most likely to be asked based on your age and status. This will help save you from fumbling.
6. Research the industry and company
An interviewer may ask a few questions to know wether you have any idea about the company and it’s competitors. You don’t want to be completely blank. Do some research.
An interviewer may ask a few questions to know wether you have any idea about the company and it’s competitors. You don’t want to be completely blank. Do some research.
7. Speak the right body language. Dress appropriately, make eye contact, give a firm handshake, have good posture, speak clearly.
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8. Clarify your selling points and the reason you are the best person for the job and have it at your finger tips. Most interviewers don’t miss this question
9. Prepare to ask the interviewer questions too. At the end of every interview, the interviewer asks whether you have any questions. Saying “Not really” suggests that you are not that interested the job. Ask one or two intelligent questions. e.g “If you could design the
Ideal candidate for this job from ground up, what what he be like?
10. Practice, practice, practice.
It's one thing to come prepared with a mental answer to a question It's another challenge entirely to say it out loud in a confident and convincing way. Say it another 10 times, and you'll sound a lot smoother and more articulate.
It's one thing to come prepared with a mental answer to a question It's another challenge entirely to say it out loud in a confident and convincing way. Say it another 10 times, and you'll sound a lot smoother and more articulate.
11. Score a success in the first five minutes.
Interviewers make up their minds about candidates in the first five minutes of the interview – So what can you do in those five minutes to get through the gate? Come in with energy and enthusiasm.
Interviewers make up their minds about candidates in the first five minutes of the interview – So what can you do in those five minutes to get through the gate? Come in with energy and enthusiasm.
12. If you can’t instantly think about an answer to give, say things like: let me think about an example to share. Use this and buy time.
13. Don’t condemn your past employers. The interviewer needs a problem solver, not a cry cry baby.
14. Keep your answers short and focused
15. Be truthful
16. Send a Thank you mail when you get back home.
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