3 Ways to improve your interview chances
Posted by Jason in Education, tags: 3 Ways, Candidacy, Career Plan, Explanations, Future Dreams, Gap, Hypothetical Questions, Local Library, Medical Interviews, Memorise, Personality Factors, Plan B, Problem Areas, Question Areas, S Central, Skills And Abilities, Steers, Strengths And Weaknesses, Temperament, Work ShiftsIf you have an emerging interview, here are three steers to assist you to perform better and attain your occupation
a – Research the company
Use the Internet or local library to execute this. Study the company site or read their press releases. If they are local, ask an employee for advice.
b – Research the post
Find out what accomplishments, properties and knowledge the employers are likely to be looking for and check into how you measure up.
c – Research your candidacy
Find out how this post fits into your career plan and discover why you want it. It’s central to know your strengths and weaknesses. know what you have to offer that is unique. You should develop possible responses to problem areas in your record – have explanations for poor test results, a gap in dates or a change in steering.
2. Question Preparation
a – Prepare responses
Build Up responses to potential question areas and have cases and data points to back them up where you can. For Instance, if they demand you to talk about time when you stayed in something despite fronting troubles, you should have a special reply such as ‘My class were organising an event for charity and had problems with setting it up. But I made sure we had a plan B and sorted it out. We raised ?3,000.’
Question areas are likely to be
(i) Skills and abilities
(ii) Future dreams, destinations and targets
(iii) Personality factors such as motivation and temperament
(iv) Fit with the post e.g. knowledge of company, flexibility to move, work shifts
(v) Past experience, academic, extra-curricular and work including results and achievements
(vi) Situational and hypothetical questions to see what you have done/would do in certain conditions
3. Practice responses
I always tell people who are preparing for their medical interviews to practise possible responses out loud because they trip off the tongue more easily with practice. But don’t memorise replies – you’ll sound more credible if you speak naturally.
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