Introduction: The path to interview success 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Interview myths Convincing them you’re right for the job Can you do the job? Same skills, different job Your potential to tackle new tasks ‘Are you the sort of person we can work with?’ Employers love motivated employees The ‘big five’ questions Building rapport and trust Effective answers to common questions
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Introduction: The path to interview success
Introduction: The path to interview success
Interview Skills that Win the Job offers an innovative and exciting approach to developing interview skills. As well as letting you know what’s needed to succeed at interviews, it goes one important step further and demonstrates how you can prepare your own answers including exercises designed to improve your skills. People who consistently succeed at interviews are those who take the time to prepare their own answers rather than simply using answers they have read or heard elsewhere. Whether you’re a recent school leaver or a seasoned professional, this book will show you how to prepare highly effective answers and how to deliver them in a confident manner whilst establishing that all-important rapport with interviewers. The book recognises that one of the major obstacles to successful interviewing is organising a vast amount of detail about what you’ve done in previous jobs (or at school or university) and expressing this information in a clear and convincing way at the interview. The book has been designed specifically to prevent you from: • • giving those long-winded answers that drive interviewers to distraction; failing to mention important key achievements and kicking yourself afterwards;
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being stumped by certain questions and not providing an intelligent response; failing to build rapport and trust.
In addition to teaching you how to respond to popular interview questions and distinguishing a good...