Always Be Prepared For A Job Interview

Always Be Prepared For A Job Interview






Prepare for your interview

In our fifth of ten blogs offering tips helping you to secure the job of your dreams, we look at the importance of preparing for your interview. Recruitment agencies and employers interview many people but don't let this unnerve you. It's the job you want so prepare for the expected and the unexpected when attending an interview and remember at all times to appear confident but not complacent. Of course, they want you for the job vacancy you just have to show them this truth.

With competency based questions and occasional role play exercises and other selection techniques the interview process is getting more and more complicated. It can be tricky to predict exactly the kinds of questions and scenarios you'll face, however there are still quite a few predictable old chestnuts that you are bound to get asked.

A good example of some obvious questions would be where do you think your weaknesses and strengths lie, why do you want the job, and what will be your contribution to the team? Also it's always good to be prepared with examples of times in your recent work history that you've delivered excellent customer service, achieved something, brought about an improvement. This is called a competency based question and these types of questions are more and more common. Another example might be a time you've used your team work skills to solve a tricky problem or helped a fellow colleague out of a difficult situation. Another might be a time you dealt with an angry and irate customer, and how you solved the problem. Be prepared for these types of questions and sound confident and self assured in your answers. 

This is not about learning answers - not only is this hard work but it will come about as false and do you more harm than good.  It is about thinking about examples of things you have done in the past that you would like to share as successes and keeping relaxed and focused on the questions that are being asked.

If you want some other suggestions of questions asked at job interviews have a look at our knowledge centre article.

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