You’ve just answered every interview question with flair, congrats! But before you walk out that door, you have a final shot to close off the job interview and drive home the win. Your last impression is also a lasting one. How you wrap things up will stick with the interviewer just as much as your Continued »
When you get invited to an interview, you have an amazing opportunity for impressing the hiring manager and ensuring you’re given an offer to that job you’ve applied for. Although there’s no guarantee about what questions you’ll be asked during the interview, there are a bunch of questions that tend to come up time after Continued »
The purpose of job interviews is to reveal as much as possible about your personality, skills and achievements as quickly as possible. Hiring managers will have a number of specifically designed interview questions up their sleeve to get answers on personality or personal preferences. Answering these questions in the right way can be harder than Continued »
If you don’t prepare strategically for an interview you may as well turn up in your pyjamas. An interview is your first and potentially last opportunity to shine and convince the hiring manager that you are the only person for the job. You need more than for the interviewer to ‘like’ you, you need to Continued »
Whether your career has spanned 10 years or 10 minutes it is important to keep your resume as short and concise as possible. As a rule it should be no longer that 1 or 2 A4 pages length maximum with your most recent and relevant experience highlighted at the top in more detail. It is Continued »
If you can find a job seeker who doesn’t get nervous before a big interview, I will eat my keyboard, and phone interviews are no less daunting. These are often the initial screening interviews that allow hiring managers to reduce the list of candidates beforethe physical interview. The worst thing you can do is let your nerves get Continued »
An interview is like a first date. You have to leave all your negative baggage at home and concentrate on impressing the person sitting opposite you. Everybody has a past, both negative and positive, but there is a time and a place to let it show. To make sure you don’t send your hiring manager Continued »
Whatever form the interview, whether it was a Skype interview, informational or in-person, it is important to follow up effectively. Failure to do so will inevitably lead to you not getting the job. Many hiring managers intentionally watch out for thank-you notes and if one doesn’t appear, they will cross your name off the list regardless Continued »
No matter how much you study and prepare before an interview, something could always go wrong. It could be a fault from your end such as you got caught in traffic, you wrote down the time wrong or you said something you’d rather have left out. On the other hand it could be a mistake Continued »