This
article focuses on preparing you for the job interview. This is what
people face after they have received that long awaited call to attend an
interview in their dream office.
Remember
that the job interview offers you the only opportunity to appear before
your potential employer and prove yourself competent and fit. You may
never have such an opportunity again; so take it very serious and do
your best to impress your potential employer. If you do your homework,
you stand a greater chance of outperforming your fellow competitors. The
following are what you need to do:
1. Do a Research on the Company
Organizations
don’t just want to hire competent persons to fit into their vacant
positions. They are also after persons who show beyond doubts, how
excited and passionate they are, to work for them. This is because in
most cases, it is that passion/excitement that gives birth to commitment
of the job, which eventually gives birth to desired results.
You
need to convince the interview panel that you are at least interested
in what the organization does. One big way to do so is to convince the
interview panel that you know where the company is coming from, where it
is presently, and where it is going. This has become easier these days
as most organizations have websites which could be accessed for
information about them.
Get
to their website and find out a few things. Find out where they are
coming from, where they are going i.e. their vision, mission,
goals/objectives, values, what they do, where they have branches, who
their customers and competitors are, and so on. If you know someone
working for them, don’t hesitate to find out more from him/her. You
could even discover something that would make you think again, if you
would still want to work for them.
2. Master Your Curriculum Vitae
A
friend attended a job interview and all the questions that were asked
were drawn from the information he supplied on his CV. Your Curriculum
Vitae is your private advertising media. It is the only medium through
which you can market your skills, abilities, competencies, wealth of
experience and qualifications, without charge.
A
lot of persons are good at brandishing themselves so excellently on
their CVs with high sounding words which they have no a mastery of. For
example: Your CV says you are a team player and a goal-getter but you
don’t fully understand what those terms mean. Do you know the difference
between a go-getter and a goal-getter?
As
much as possible when preparing your CV, avoid claiming to be what you
are not. This will make it easier for you to defend everything written
in it. Make sure you understand the meaning of the adjectives you have
used in preparing your CV and don’t include anything you cannot defend.
If you eventually get the job, you may be called up at one point or the
other to defend what you claim to be.
3. Prepare on How to Answer Job Interview Questions.
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