developing interview skills
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Developing Interview Skills
Ranjit Das
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Introduction• Your life and career depend upon
getting and keeping jobs in which youcan express your abilities and obtainpersonal and material satisfaction
•
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presenting yourself in the best possiblelight in an interview situation
• A small investment in improving your self-
presentation skills can produce adisproportionately large increase in theend result
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What are
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Looking for?E:[email protected]
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– Assertiveness
– Emotional stability – Enthusiasm
– Good personal
– Humility
– Interest in people – Leadership potential
– Long-range plans
The following factors are assessed most
frequently during interviews
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appearance – Good educational
record
– Honesty and moralstandards
an o ec ves – Motivation
– Oral communication
skills
– Self-confidence
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Interviewer’s Criticisms• Poor preparation
–“I can’t really remember”
– “That’s a bit tricky for me to say….” – “I can’t answer that. I’ve never really thought
”
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• Making negative value judgementsabout yourself and your experiences – “I find getting on with people a little difficult” –
“I had a personality clash with ….” – “I’m only a shelf filler in Safeway” – “My project was fairly simple”
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• Making derogatory remarks about the
organisation, the interviewers or theprocedures and showing bitternesstowards others
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– “In my opinion psychological tests areunimportant”
– “I would have thought that my CV says it
all…” – “I was hoping to see someone more
senior”
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•Build understanding of:
What will they ask?
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• Interviewers complain that candidates
fail to prepare. – You have not thought about yourself, the job,
the company you are applying to,
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interviewers wish to flesh out – what they do not have is an explanation of
why you did what you did [i.e. your motivation]
– your work experience and you as anindividual
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• Interviews typically ask about:
– your early life
– education and qualifications
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– work experiences
– interests outside of school and work
– how you match up to the jobspecifications
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• Your early background –
“Tell me about your family/early days”• You should have a clear idea about what you are
going to say, be prepared to say somethingpositive and interesting [unusual birthplace, family
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– “How did you feel about these early days”• Life is full of ups and downs. Show how you have
learned from the downs and managed to pullyourself up.
• These questions are used to establish your personal values, motivation, ability,relationships with others
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• Education and Qualifications
– “Talk me through your education andqualifications”
– “ ’
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school”
• You may have a genuine reason for it. If not,play down any negative aspects. Try to select
things which went well and try not to mentionthings which did not. Jump to subsequent
achievements
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• Further Education
– “Tell me about your time at university” – “Your results look somewhat disappointing”
• Was there a reason? Perhaps you did better than
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better, what lesson[s] did you learn?
• These questions are used to understandyour motivation, self-discipline, organising
ability, inter-personal skills, ability to copeunder pressure, direction of career aspirations
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• Work Experience –
“Tell me about your present/last job/vacationwork”• You should pick out those parts of your work history
which mirror the role you are seeking. Talk about
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learned.
• Your work experiences can provideevidence of interest, motivation,
interpersonal skills, creativity, supervisoryskills, organising, planning and problem-solving skills.
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• Interests Outside of Work
– Activities away from work might throw lighton the extent to which your outside activitiessupport or hinder good job performance
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– Outside interests give clues about you as anindividual
– “What do you do in your spare time?”
– “It seems to me that you might have difficultyin maintaining that interest because of thenature of our job”
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Making a Good
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Impression
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Making a Good Impression• Clothing
– Dress smartly
• Hair
– Kee it rofessional
• Verbal
CommunicationChecklist – Speak clearly
– Slow down if
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looking• Jewelry
– Keep to a minimum
• Cosmetics – Keep to a minimum
necessary – Avoid talking in a
‘thick’ accent
– Don’t use jargon
–Ensure your pronunciation iscorrect
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Body Language• Up to 90% of
communication isnon-verbal
• Touch is important.Start with a good firm
• Try to open up your body
• Eye contact is good -but not too much
• Let your face come
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• When walking or standing, keepreasonably erect
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When seated, don’tlean too far forwardor backward
a ve.• Use your head to
indicate you arelistening,
understanding, beingattentive• When thinking, look
up to your right or left