Getting your first job role can be a difficult task. You have worked your hardest to get that all important degree but you may not have the commercial experience that your employers are looking for. You need to demonstrate to your interviewer that you have the desired skills they are looking for; so What qualities …
It’s that time of year, students are handing in their final assignments, sitting their last exams and breathing a sigh of relief that their degree is over! That also means that the majority of these students are applying for Graduate job roles and attending what will probably be their first professional interview. Interview environments are …
The age old phrase is true, if you Fail to Prepare = Prepare to Fail, and that phrase definitely rings true when it comes to your first job interview. Other than a few part-time jobs in bars and shops while at University, the majority of students won’t have experienced a corporate interview environment. That is …
The reason to choose your time. When you successfully gain an interview for a job position you quite often are able to schedule your interview yourself working within a short timeline, usually a day, sometimes longer, a few days, a week etc. Obviously you might also be told when to present yourself in which case …
The vast majority of candidates attending a graduate job interview go to it with just one thing on their mind. When you think about it this is perfectly natural given the hoops most of them have jumped through just to get to the interview stage. The job search, the covering letter and a perfectly presentable …
You have to be careful with this job interview question because it is very easy to give an answer which will sound the same as every other candidate. Most candidates will launch into the usual great culture, values, talented people etc type of response which is meaningless and which the interviewers have heard time and …
The job market is evolving rapidly along with the techniques and methods used by employers to attract and hire employees as are the nature of some of the questions put to candidates in order to identify those with the best fit. Some of these recent questions include the one that asks candidates to tell the interviewer …
I know that most of you are bombarded with information and hints about how you conduct yourself during an interview so here’s another one just to cheer you up. During a job interview besides dressing correctly, speaking clearly and slowly and using the correct body language you also have to be very careful not to …
Job seeking today can be a soul destroying task with, at times, so many candidates chasing so few openings. You should be prepared to take setbacks but the secret here is to keep focussed and keep pursuing openings. Your preparation traditionally has been ensuring your resume is eye catching and up to date plus the …
There are many facets of a job interview that are important stretching from the writing of your CV, the covering letter, how you dress, talk, answer questions etc etc. Amongst these important topics you have your actual body language and this is equally imperative to get right during the interview phase. As we all know …