Job Interview Tips

Have you ever realized how much the judgment of interviewers is affected by how you look when they first meet you? Well, the fact is even experienced interviewers start making up their mind in the first sixty seconds of the interview! Yes, of course, they should find out a lot more about you first, but if they can't SEE you in the job right away, then you give yourself a much more uphill task of convincing them.

• The tendency to rely on first impressions is even more pronounced with inexperienced interviewers. The fact is, most managers have never had any training in conducting interviews, or if they have, it may have been months or even years since they did their last interview, and they can't remember all the things they should be doing. So what do they do? They tend to rely on their ‘gut feel’, or whether they take a liking to you or not. That's why first impressions are important.
• You will find that some managers feel very uncomfortable conducting interviews, don't quite know what to ask, or leave long silences. Others, to cover their embarrassment, simply start talking about the job and their company, and hardly let the candidate get a word in edge-wise. But did you know that, if you know how, you can effectively control the interview? That's where your secret FIVE POINT PLAN, described in David Drennan's . . .
  

  will put you at a great advantage over your competitors.

• You need to remember there will almost always be other candidates for the job. If ten people apply, in theory you have only a one in ten chance of landing the job. So, if you are always likely to be in competition, how do you distinguish yourself from all the others? Well, it isn't by going along to the interview and hoping for the best. You need the best advice you can get.

Learn From Someone Who Really Knows

And you can get that kind of advice from a real expert here. For a number of years David Drennan was a top executive with an international company which gets literally thousands of applications for their high -paying jobs every year. His department was responsible for designing the procedures which screened all these candidates and decided who would finally be offered their sought-after jobs.

Now, as Professor of Management and consultant to the companies whose logos you see here - like Volvo, British Aerospace, Bristol Myers, Nuclear Electric and many others - he is well versed in what employers are looking for. That insider knowledge gained over more than twenty years in the field, is what you can tap into here on this website.

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Just A Few Interview Tips

When we asked David to give us a couple of tips we could put on the website page here, this is what he said :

“Most people don't realize that what they do before the interview will have more to do with their eventual success than anything else. Generally people will often send in a letter in answer to an advertisement, and be sent an application form. This they will simply complete and send back. That's a mistake.

“There may be piles of applications for the job, so you need to make it easy for the interviewer to pick your application out from all the others. You should always send a one-page covering letter pointing out just what in your skills and experience makes you particularly suited for their vacancy. That way, you are more likely to get invited you for interview.

“Generally interviewees will turn up for their interview on time and come suitably dressed. That's fine. But most of the time, they just ‘play it by ear’ in the interview itself. In other words, because they think they don't know what questions will get asked, they just hope they can give sensible answers when the time comes.

“But advance preparation beats hope every time. However, I know from experience that 90% of interviewees don't do any such forward preparation, simply because they don't know what they can do beforehand.

“All the things you can do to prepare I have encapsulated in the booklet How To Succeed At Interviews including my FIVE POINT PLAN technique. If you are among the 10% of candidates who have done some preparation, you come across as that much more organized and self-assured, and that does your candidacy no end of good.”

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