If you have an forthcoming interview, here are 3 hints to serve you to perform better and attain your Enquire

a – Research the department
Use the Net or local library to do this. Analyse the company internet site or scan their press releases. If they’re local, ask an employee for advice.

b – Research the job
Notice which attainments, attributes and knowledge the employers are likely to be looking for and check over how you qualify.

c – Research yourself
Notice how this job blends into your career plan and discover why you want it. It’s central to understand your strengths and weaknesses. understand what you have to offer that is unique. You should build up possible replies to problem areas in your record – have explanations for poor examination results, a gap in dates or a shift in steering.

2. Question Preparation

a – Prepare replies
Prepare replies to possible question areas and have illustrations and information to back them up where you can. For Instance, if they ask you to talk about time when you remained in something despite confronting troubles, you should have a specific 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, goals and targets
(iii) Personality factors such as motivation and temperament
(iv) Fit with the job e.g. cognition of company, flexibility to move around, 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 replies

I always tell people who are preparing for their medical interviews to practise possible replies aloud because they trip off the tongue more easily with practice. But do not memorise replies – you’ll sound more credible if you speak naturally.