Interviews: Building Your Confidence

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• Interviews Building Your Confidence
• Careers Adviser Abi Sharma

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In an employers shoes

• Can you do the job?
• Will you do the job?
• Will you fit in?

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What to expect in interview

• Can you do the job? - Competency questions
• - Current issue questions
• Will you do the job? - Motivation questions
• Will you fit in? - Impression you give
• Your questions

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Preparation Competency

• 3) What are the skills and qualities that they
  are looking for and what examples can you give to
  show you have them?

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Preparation Current Issues

• 4) Be aware of the business context in which the
  organisation operates an understanding of the
  industry and factors affecting it.

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Use the CAR technique

• Context - describe the situation you were in
  and your objective/task you had to do
• Action - what action did you take to achieve
  your objective?
• Result - what was the outcome - show the success!

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Example.

• Q.A particular achievement using organisation
  skills
• A. Organised the netball society dinner, for 60
  people which was a real success and theyve asked
  me to organise another one next year.

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Preparation Motivation

• 1) Know about the employer what you like about
  them
• It never ceases to amaze me how many graduates
  dont bother to find out who it is that they are
  applying to I cant stress enough how important
  it is to read up on this beforehand. Preparation
  really shows!

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Preparation Motivation

• 2) Know about the job role why you want to do it

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Preparation Giving the right impression

• 6) Remember interview etiquette!
• Make eye contact and speak clearly
• Show enthusiasm and be positive!
• Be yourself

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Tactics!!!

• Give yourself thinking time
• Repeat, comment, Can I have a minute?
• Think of the punchline before you talk
• Seek clarification
• Are you looking for an example of...?
• Ask for feedback
• Is this example useful?
• When in a hole, stop digging
• Sorry, Ive got a bit lost. May I start again?

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Your questions!

• 5) Your chance to interview!

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10.30am-4pm Drop-in sessions Monday-Thursday 10.
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