1 / 19

How to Impress at Interview

How to Impress at Interview. Jane Chanaa, Careers Adviser. Download this PPT to open documents & read slide notes!. Learning outcomes. Understanding of: Purpose and types of recruitment interviews Skills you need in the interview process How to prepare for questions and tips on responses

gypsy
Download Presentation

How to Impress at Interview

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. How to Impress at Interview Jane Chanaa, Careers Adviser Download this PPT to open documents & read slide notes!

  2. Learning outcomes Understanding of: • Purpose and types of recruitment interviews • Skills you need in the interview process • How to prepare for questions and tips on responses Confidence in: • Interviewing and being interviewed

  3. Practice question! “What is your greatest achievement?” • Break into pairs • One the interviewer, one the interviewee • One minute each to answer Feedback: • Was this difficult? • What are other difficult questions?

  4. Why interview? • To establish whether a candidate has the skills, knowledge and ability to do the job • To ensure the candidate has an accurate picture of the job and the organisation • To give the candidate a fair opportunity to apply for the job

  5. Interview types • Telephone • Panel • Group • Sequential • Virtual • Chronological • Competency-based • Case study • Academic / Technical • Portfolio • Presentational

  6. Preparation is vital!

  7. 7 Preparation Steps • Organisation research • Role research • Self-awareness • Your answers • Your questions • Practicalities • Interview skills for the day Interview research

  8. 1. Organisation research • Goals and objectives • Competitors and comparatives • Structure of their organisation • Major streams of work • Change afoot • Possibilities for improvement

  9. 2. Role research • Skills used • Terminology • Leaders in the area • Techniques, software, tools • Challenges for the role • Ways to contribute more to the role

  10. Interview research You’re applying for a marketing assistant at: How can you research the organisation and the role?

  11. Interview research You’re applying for a marketing assistant at: How can you research the organisation and the role? Website Contacts Oxford alumni Job description Institutes Blogs Twitter LinkedIn Trade publications Journals

  12. 3. Self-awareness • Why do I want the job? • What’s my evidence that I’m a good candidate? • What have I gained from the things on my CV? • What was my best/worst decision, my greatest achievement etc. • When did I…work in a team, solve a problem etc. • What are my strengths and weaknesses? • What are my goals?

  13. 4. Your answers S situation T target/task A action R result Check they are: Relevant, reasonably recent, diverse, detailed enough, focus on evidence about you “Tell me about a time when…” “Give me an example of…”

  14. 5. Your questions “Have you got any questions for us…?” • Prepare a couple in advance • Questions give away how much you know • If you’re stuck ask about: opinions, personal experience, future predictions • Use their answers to help your decisions • If you have had your questions answered, say so • Don’t ask too many if time has run out

  15. 6. Practicalities • Research who’s interviewing you • Consider travel, get their early • Think about appropriate dress • What do you want to find out about them?

  16. 7. Interview Skills • 7% from WORDS • 38% from VOICE TONES • 55% from BODY LANGUAGE Posture, eye contact Emotional signals Pace, intonation SMILE! SMILE! SMILE!

  17. Practice • Groups of three • Label yourselves A, B and C • Rotate interviewee, interviewer and observer “Tell me about a time when you worked well as part of a team” • Welcome, handshake • Feedback as a ‘compliment sandwich’ Compliment To improve on Compliment

  18. Further advice • www.careers.ox.ac.uk • Mock Interviews • Careers Adviser appointments • Books & e-books • Interview Feedback Database • Ask for feedback • Review to improve • Don’t get discouraged!

  19. www.careers.ox.ac.uk/careersbeyondprofit 01865 274646reception@careers.ox.ac.uk Q&A#careersbeyondprofit

More Related