Week 11
This week we had Maria Brown the careers advisor in ITB.
Maria was in to give us a few tips to help prepare us for our upcoming mock interviews. The interviews were kind of a serious thing since we had to come in all fancied up and having our interview skills as good as we could get them as if were where going for a real job.
Maria told us that before an interview we should
- Research the company we are being interviewed by.
- Research the position we have applied for.
- Know our C.V. inside-out.
- Have preparation questions in your head with good answers to these hard questions.
- To have a phrase to help buy time if you get an unprepared question, so that you have time to think of an appropriate answer.
- Find out stats and other facts about the company.
- Ring the companies HR office to see if they can tell you anything that you couldn’t find out anywhere else.
Next Maria told us about how to act when you get to the interview stage-
- You should show up in a suit or else very nicly dressed or dressed for the job in the correct way.
- From the second you meet the interviewer you will be judged so try to stay in the best frame of mind and give off the correct personality.
- Shake the persons hand and keep eye contact and sit still.
- Keep the jewelry to a minimum and keep it plain so that your don’t have to many distractions for the interviewer to look at.
- Stay relaxed but not to relaxed.
- Speak slowly and confidently.
These are the tips that Maria gave us and I tried my best to stick to these when it came to going into my interview.
Hopefully it went well but i went in being quite nervous and got a little thrown off with a few questions but we cant expect everything to be easy now can we?
In the end it was a very helpful learning experience and I’m looking forward to getting my feedback.
