Tips For Your Interview

Hello
I have a interview at a university for a admission counselor position do you have any tips. (sample questions, dress attire, etc) thanks

Dress professionally; business suit, conserative make-up and hair; and low heels (2 inches or less).

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Yeah, its very very important to know about the company while appearing for an interview. This matter usually comes from this important question-"Why should we hire u ?" Here u can say ur qualities and objectives that may be useful for the company and hence u can prove yourself useful for the company.

And if u don’t know anything about the company, then u can say ur objectives too, but some of them may not match with them. The interviewee then can directly ask -"This is not included in our company’s goal, so how will our company become useful if we hire u?" After that even if u say ur some objectives that may match with the company’s goal(but if u know nothing about the company, then it will also be a tough task, it will be a matter of luck if that match), then they can again ask-"Why were u saying previously such objectives that doesn’t match with our company’s goals?" U know, this a true incident which happened to a senior of mine and not only with him, this may happen to anyone. After that he answered that-" Some situations may occur in the future in which I may become useful by my these qualities." But lol..the company is asking a question depending on the present situation, not future,i.e. ur kind of qualification that may match with the present situation of company. "What is the gaurantee that in future that situation will occur?"He couldn’t manage this question properly and was rejected.

The company also want to see ur passion and desire for working in the company. If anybody want to be an engineer/doctor, there is surely a reason behind that(if not,he/she is not passionate). The same case is here. Suppose this important question-"Why do u want to join in our company ?"

So these r the reasons why one should know about a company while preparing for inteinterview. Hope it’ll help

I’m doing a geography project and I will interview a woman who experienced poverty in her childhood with a single parent and some siblings, till a few years after landing a job that eventually pulled her out of poverty.

I already thought up a few questions to ask her during the informal interview, but I’m hoping for really good and thoughtful questions from the Yahoo! Answers Community!
1: Do you find that your experience with poverty has altered the way you spend money now?
2: Did being poor affect your self-esteem as a child?
3: Were you forced to wear hand-me-downs as a child, and did that effect your feelings of acceptance in school or have difficulty making friends because you were self-conscious?
4: People who went through the Great Depression oftentimes found themselves hoarders throughout the rest of their lives (stocking up on food, canned goods, paper towels, etc). Have you experienced this?
5: Did being poor make you feel ashamed or embarrassed?

This is the most common question I have to face in the interview. And I am still confused about the right answer. It is still really difficult for me to answer. Can anyone help me? I am going to appear in a BPO job?

Tell Me About Yourself"
When an interviewer asks you this question, it isn’t a polite request for your life story. What the interviewer wants to know is "why should I hire you?" Though you can answer this open-ended question in myriad ways, the key to answering this question is to offer a response that supports your career objective. This means that you should not respond with comments about your family details, hobbies, spouse, or cat but craft a convincing statement that will make the interviewer want to know more about you and what you can do for his organisation.
The following steps will help you grab the interviewer’s attention:
Focus On What’s Important
List down five strengths you have that are pertinent to the job (experience, personality traits, your positive skills, et al). What do you want the interviewer to know about you when you leave?
Keep To The Script
Prepare a brief that includes the information you want to convey. Begin by talking about past job experiences and proven success. Next, mention your strengths and achievements. And then conclude with a statement about your current situation and what you are looking for in your next job.
Practice, Practice, Practice
Practice with your brief until you feel confident about what you want to emphasize in your statement. Your brief should help you stay on track, but you shouldn’t memorise it as you don’t want to sound artificial and rehearsed. You should sound spontaneous and conversational. Even if you are not asked this type of question to begin the interview, this preparation will help you focus on what you have to offer. The more you can talk about your product (which in this case is YOU!) the better chance you will have at selling it.
Try And Make It Relevant
Introduce attributes that are key to the open position. In fact, answering the question effectively gives you the opportunity to talk about your strengths, achievements, and qualifications for the position that you have applied for.
Be Compelling And Concise
Your career summary is the "meat" of your response, so it must support your job objective and it must be compelling. Keep your response limited to your current experience. Don’t go back more than 10 years.
Link Your Response To The Hiring Organisation’s Need
Do not assume that the interviewer will be able to connect all the dots. It is your job as the person being interviewed to make sure the interviewer understands how your experience is relevant to the position they are seeking to fill.
Ask An Insightful Question
By asking a question you gain control of the interview. Don’t ask a question for the sake of asking. Be sure that the question will engage the interviewer in a conversation. Doing so will alleviate the stress you may feel to perform.
Finish Strong
The best way to end your statement is to put the conversational ball in the interviewer’s court. Listen attentively to the response about the kind of person the company is looking for and determine what part of your experience and accomplishment to mention as the interview progresses. Remember, it is almost guaranteed that when you respond appropriately to the diverse needs of the interviewing person, you will become the standard by which all of the other candidates will be measured.
Conclusion:
Though deceptively simple this question can set the tone for the rest of your interview. So take care in answering it. Remember, this question can make or break the interviewer’s interest in you. All the best!

I have a job interview tomorrow in retail, just wondering if anyone could give me some tips as i completely failed in my last interview (which was only last week) so i’m a little low on confidence at the minute lol.

Any help would be appreciated.

In You Tube there is a very good material
Unfortunately I cannot access it from this PC so I cannot give you the direct link but you can find easily by putting job interview tips, its good material
Don’t worry feel confident, tell to yourself "I’m confident at job interviews" repeat as much as you like as it will set the mindset you want to adapt
Study for it, that will back up your confidence

Can anyone please answer mine? is about job interviews as well…
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvDXaurhBkbkmw6FolDtSarsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20081023162729AAm2yPH

It’s vital that you arrive at a job interview prepared to ask questions of your own. Remember that the purpose of this meeting is as much for you to interview the company as it is for the company to interview you.

You want to develop a solid basis for either accepting or rejecting the job, if it’s offered to you. A smart interviewer knows he or she should be selling the job to you as well as evaluating you. It’s costly and frustrating for an employer to go to the time, trouble and expense of identifying the best candidate, only to have the candidate turn the job offer down.

First, ask questions that indicate your interest in the job and the organization, and that elicit answers to help you respond to the interviewer’s questions.

What, specifically, are the functions the person in this job will perform?

What are the strengths you’re looking for in an ideal job candidate?

What changes would you like to see made in the way this job is done?

What is the most important objective of this department?

Answers to such questions as these will tell you exactly what interests the interviewer most, and how to position your own strengths, education and experience. In a way it’s like borrowing somebody’s watch so you can tell him what time it is. But these are perfectly legitimate questions.

The critical point here is this: until you understand what the employer is looking for, you have no way of knowing if you’re describing yourself an a way that’s appealing to him or her. So try to get as much information as you can, as early in the interview as you can. Ideally, you want the interviewer to lay out all the job background and specifications before you start talking about yourself.

Later in the interview, probe for answers that give you insights into what the future might hold for you if you work there.

Who held the job last? How long? Why did he or she leave? You want to know if this is a swinging door position, in which no one can last very long, or whether it’s a launching pad for bigger things in the company.

If I’m as successful in this position as we’d both expect me to be, what might I be doing after a year? After two years? Be prepared for the response, “What would you like to be doing?” Go ahead and answer, but find out of the interviewer thinks your aspirations are realistic. You’re trying to find out whether there are good opportunities for promotion, or whether this is a dead-end job.

What would I have to accomplish in this job to be considered first-rate?

Who in the company would review my performance? When?

It’s quite permissible to bring a prepared list of questions into the interview, if you wish, and refer to it openly. A pad in a nice writing portfolio adds a touch of class to this procedure.

Bruce Bloom
http://www.articlesbase.com/interviews-articles/crucial-questions-to-ask-at-your-job-interview-71994.html

I am going to a job interview next monday and this is my first job interview (I’m 17). What are some good tips for a successful interview?
The tips I see on the internet are all for professional positions.
(That job is in a shop and related to technology… , like Radioshack…)

As a middle aged "Old Dude" who has interviewed his share of teenagers I have the following advice:

Don’t pick your nose, chew your nails or play with your hair before, during or after the interview.

Be sure to take a shower and wash your hair before you leave home. Then comb your hair, and shave if you’re a guy.

If you’re a guy, and you interview for an office job wear a long sleeved shirt, tie, and long pants. Make sure the shirt and pants have been ironed, tuck your shirt into your pants and make sure your underwear does not show. Do not wear sneakers, flip-flops or sandals, but do wear socks, not white ones. If you’re not interviewing for an office job, all of the above applies, but you can lose the tie.

If you’re a girl, skirts should not be more than 2 inches above the knee, any more and I might want to take you out for drinks, but not hire you. Don’t wear a t-shirt with your favorite band’s logo on it, interviewers don’t think it’s "cute". Don’t wear anything you think of as "cute", wear what you think of as "boring". If you wear a skirt, wear stockings and not the fishnet kind either. Keep it down with the makeup.

Lose the piercings, girls are allowed discrete earrings, not the huge dangly kind, guys no jewelery of any kind except a watch and maybe a ring as long as it doesn’t cover more than one finger.

When meeting the interviewer shake hands firmly and look him/her in the eye, smile and say something like "Nice to meet you"

Do not say things like "yah, like, duh" and roll your eyes, you’re not in high school and I’m not you’re flipping mother, that’s the shortest way for an employment application to end up in the shredder.

Don’t ask; "Do you guys have medical, ’cause, like I’m sick ALL the time…" Now the shredder is working overtime.

Speak in a normal and clear voice, don’t yell but don’t mumble either, look at the interviewer in the eye, don’t stare at the floor, the ceiling, the traffic outside the window. Focus.

If you’re a guy and in the middle of the interview the interviewer’s really hot assistant walks in with a piece of paper for him to sign, do not check her out and ogle. Yes, she’s there as a test to see if you can handle being around customers and coworkers in a professional manner.

Don’t lie, ever, it will catch up. If you’re asked whether you’ve done some kind of work tell the truth. For example if asked if you have ever dealt with customers before, and you haven’t, say so, but you can add that you always really get along with everyone and that you like to meet new people.

Don’t chew gum or anything else for that matter, don’t go in with your breakfast or lunch or even a drink save it for later.

Be polite, say: please, thank you, you’re welcome, yes and no instead of uh huh and ah ah. If you have to cough or clear your throat put you left hand in front of it, not your right hand because that’s the hand you shake hands with, and no one wants to shake a hand you just sneezed into.

Guys, don’t arrange "the package" during the interview or while waiting for the interviewer, you’re not in a baseball field.

All of the above advice is not just for teenagers, it’s for everyone, it’s amazing to me that there are people in their 30’s and even 40’s that don’t know how to act in public and they’ve just gotten away with stuff all of their lives. Now we’re in a really tough job market, for a filing clerk position I got 1,200 resumes and yet some people come into the reception to fill out an application with clothes that look like they’ve been slept in, a "tough guy" attitude, popping gum and greet me with a "hey man".

I’ve seen it all.

I don’t want the company to use my marketing ideas if they don’t hire me. The company is not paying me for this plan. Thanks for your advice.

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