Job Interviews
5 Ways to make a good first impression at interview
It’s said that many interviewers make up their mind about a potential candidate’s suitability for a job within minutes of meeting them. First impressions certainly count, so if you are attending a job interview, it’s vital that you do all that you can to make sure an employer gains a positive and good impression of […]
How to Get More Job Interviews – Basic Tips
Working in recruitment, we were often told by candidates that they had applied for tens, maybe hundreds of jobs and often never heard back from the employer and never secured an interview. It’s an experience that the media tends to pick up on quite a bit too – tales of an unemployed graduate sending of […]
Top Tips for a Second Interview
Firstly, if you are reading this having just invited for a second interview, may we say Congratulations! You have done really well to pass the first interview and thereby overcome the first hurdle – now it’s a case of leaving the interviewer in no uncertain doubt that you are the best person for this job. […]
Preparing for Interview – Basic Tips
Been invited for interview? Congratulations! That’s the first step done. The next step of course is getting ready so that at the interview itself, you’ll impress the employer, get offered the job and achieve the end result you want. In terms of getting ready, it’s all about the prep work. We’ve put together some basic tips on […]
How to Conduct a mock interview
Hands up who has ever done a mock interview? By ‘mock interview’ I don’t mean, that time you got a mate to ask you a few questions loosely related to your chosen field, and then giggled most of the way through your answers. I mean a real mock interview, one which mimicked as closely as […]
5 Ways to Impress in a Video Interview
Thanks to Skype and the like, more and more interviews these days are taking place via video. Technology has a lot to answer for! However, just because you could potentially be interviewed in your own home, that doesn’t mean that you should let complacency set in. Preparation and planning are needed just as they are for […]
How to Handle Panel Interviews
Interviews can be pretty daunting experiences at the best of times but if you’re faced with a group of interviewers, it can be even more so. Of course it needn’t be that way. Like all interviews, if you prepare as much as you can, a panel interview can be pretty easy to handle too. Here […]
How to Approach an Assessment Centre
Employers are increasingly focusing on the behaviours that they want employees to possess in addition to technical knowledge. Workplace behaviours can be tested during the recruitment process using an assessment centre. What is an Assessment Centre? An assessment centre is not a place. It is a series of exercises that an employer runs to assess […]
Top Tips on How to Impress at Interview
Top Tips on How to Impress at Interview As anyone who is currently looking for a job will tell you, it is pretty tough out there. With more and more people applying for every position advertised and with fewer companies recruiting, actually securing an interview can be a feat in itself. So, if you have […]
3 Awesome Questions to Ask the Interviewer – A Guest post by Aimee Bateman of careercake.com
You have (hopefully) answered all the interviewers’ questions perfectly and it’s your chance to ask the questions. I have spent nearly every day, of the last 10 years, interviewing people for various clients. I promised I would eventually write a book which includes all the random/funny/crazy questions I get asked, but for now I am […]
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