How To Be Successful At Interviews
No matter how knowledgeable or experienced you are, being completely prepared for the interview is essential when you are applying for a promotion in your own organization or a post in another organization. Your experience, reputation, knowledge, and physical appearance will be helpful, but it's very likely that the other applicants will possess similar qualities.
The following is a list of steps you should take to be completely ready. Find out as much as you can about the hiring company, including your current employer if it's an internal interview: It is crucial that you gather details about the company and analyze them before deciding whether or not to go to the interview. You need details about the company's current and future performance, the state of the industry it operates in, and the position it is recruiting for. You can proceed to the following step if the company and its industry are both strong, and if the position appears secure and promising. The best course of action would almost certainly be to pass up the opportunity if your findings are unfavorable. You need to learn more about your current situation by assessing how your personal and professional goals are developing, concentrating on how the prospects in your current position align with your goals, and then determining how the new position might help you to accomplish those goals.
Choose whether or not to go to the interview:
Whether accepting this new position is the best choice for you at this time needs to be decided objectively. Armed with the knowledge you gathered earlier, you can confidently weigh the benefits of accepting the new position against staying in your current one, even if it means waiting until a better opportunity presents itself. It is tempting to apply for a position that seems to offer a higher salary, more responsibility, more status, and new directions.
If this is so alluring that you are confident you can adjust your development plans to match it and are happy with that decision, then yes, go to the interview and give your best effort. However, you should be aware that the interviewers might turn you down because it will become clear to them that the position they are offering is not a natural fit with your prior professional experience. What's worse, they might ask you how this new opportunity fits with your future personal development plans and be disappointed with your weak response.
Obtain information about the actual job:
You must learn as much as you can about the position's duties, responsibilities, reporting structures, working environment, working hours, and other employment-related terms and conditions, including corporate policies and procedures that might be relevant. Some of this information will be provided to you in the information packet that the department or organization conducting the interview will send to you, but sadly, the quality of the information is frequently subpar.
The HR departments of the majority of professional organizations will respond to your inquiries regarding these matters or refer you to the appropriate line manager.
Study the interview format:
You must conduct some basic, yet crucial research on the interview's mechanics. Again, you will receive some of this information. You should be certain of the following: how to reach the organization and the precise interview location (don't rely on asking for this information when you arrive as this increases the anxiety of the situation); who will be on the interview panel (their titles will give you important clues as to their relationships to the post); and the format of the interview (there is nothing worse than arriving expecting a traditional face-to-face interview and finding that it is a day-long series of tests, group activities, and interviews).
The arrival time:
Make sure you arrive early enough to clean up after your trip, settle down before the interview, and arrive in good physical and mental shape.
The way you look:
Do not believe that getting the job solely depends on your background, credentials, abilities, and knowledge. Since the majority of the applicants will share similar qualities, you need to stand out by dressing professionally, intelligently, and appropriately for the position. In many cases, the interviewers may be using, albeit unconsciously, the previous occupant of the position as a benchmark. You can't predict what the interviewers want in terms of physical appearance and personality, but don't for a second believe anyone who says it doesn't matter.
You are being invited into their world, so they will be looking for someone they feel comfortable around (even if the role requires you to be an aggressive change-agent). Yes, there are laws in some countries that state that the position should be given to the most qualified applicant, regardless of appearance, but in practice this isn't what happens. The solution to this conundrum is to research the culture of the company you are joining so that you are aware of how people in roles similar to the one for which you are being interviewed dress and act.
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This will enable you to make comments or pose questions about it during the interview. Even though wearing jeans and a t-shirt to an interview is the norm, you shouldn't do so. You need to project the best professional and job-seeking image you can. That almost certainly refers to a business suit for men, or a jacket and trousers, tie or no tie. a professional outfit or business suit for women. If and only if the environment is appropriate, smart-casual attire can be acceptable for people of both sexes.
A business outfit is typically expected at the interview for the majority of positions offered to professionals, specialists, managers, experts, and consultants, even though after being hired, they would never again expect you to arrive at work in anything even remotely formal.
Your method:
Think positively, in a nutshell. You are giving this organization your skills, knowledge, time, effort, and energies, so you need to convey that they would be foolish to pass you up given your qualifications. It just means demonstrating to the interviewers that you are a self-assured, assertive, proactive, flexible professional who would work well if hired, without being aggressive, overly enthusiastic, pompous, or pretentious.
Consider the interview questions that you will likely be asked as you prepare and practice your responses:
Discuss this with a partner, friend, or coworker, and then practice your responses. Make an effort to use the interview questions to support your case that you are the best candidate for the position. For instance, even though your experience and credentials are listed on your CV, you will almost certainly still be questioned about them. Your response should be written in a way that connects your experience, knowledge, and qualifications to the duties of the new position, demonstrating how your current qualities will give you the assurance and aptitude to handle the upcoming tasks.
Hopefully, you won't be asked questions like What do you believe would be the main advantages of hiring you for this position? But it still occurs, so you need to be ready for them. Practice again connecting your experience and current skills to the requirements of the new role. What would you say are your greatest assets and greatest weaknesses, if someone were to ask you? Then, be extremely cautious when discussing your alleged weaknesses. Instead, focus primarily on your strengths, providing examples of times when you have used them successfully.
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Pick a relatively innocuous weakness that could be seen as a strength, such as being overly concerned with meeting quality standards or demanding that deadlines are met, which can irritate some team members. Under no circumstances should you criticize your current or former employers or coworkers negatively. Don't criticize your employer or any of its employees, even if it is known to have flaws or unethical behavior. This almost always results in fatal error. Almost always, you will be asked a few questions about the company conducting the interview.
Once more, take advantage of these to demonstrate that you have done your homework on the company while also learning more about what it has planned (at least for the area in which you will be working) and/or what they anticipate of you. For instance, you might bring up new markets that the company has recently entered and inquire as to how that will affect the position for which you are being interviewed.
When asked about your interests and hobbies, keep it short and simple. Avoid trying to impress someone with obscure hobbies that you don't actually enjoy. Think about having a question asked to you in English by one of the interviewers after you mention that you like watching Hollywood movies!
Question asked by you:
The interviewer will typically ask the subject if they have any final questions before asking them to leave. Yes ought to always be the response. Prepare two questions, and either ask them or one of them along with another that has come up as a result of something discussed during the interview.
Make sure the questions you ask support your eligibility for the position. Inquire about personal development opportunities, for instance, and briefly describe what, if the position were to be offered to you, you believe would be a potentially fruitful development activity (beneficial to both you and the organization) (this should be an area that you have considered whilst researching the organization and the job itself).
General behavior:
Keep in mind that you are constantly being evaluated, possibly starting as soon as you enter the building and approach the receptionist and undoubtedly as soon as you enter the interview room and as soon as you leave. You need to be as unforced and at ease as you can be, both physically and mentally, while still acting professionally, politely, and courteously. Never engage in debate unless you have been specifically told to present your opposing arguments.
Be alert, take an interest in each interviewer as they ask questions, and respond to that person directly while pausing to occasionally look at the others. Avoid being evasive when responding to questions, project confidence, and make sure your responses highlight why you'd be a good fit for the open position.
The last word:
Thank the interviewers for their time and questions as the conversation comes to a close. Inform them that you look forward to hearing from them and that you would be thrilled to be given the position. This is a polite and intelligent way to end the interview, even if you are currently having second thoughts about it. You might later decide that you want the job, but if you came across negatively as the interview was coming to a close, your chances will be significantly diminished.
In conclusion, the secret to acing an interview is to approach it as a project that must be planned and carried out in the most professional way possible. A major change in your life is when you change jobs, move into a new position, change organizations, change the course of your career, possibly move into a different business sector, leave behind friends and coworkers, and meet, work with, and manage new coworkers. The interview is your gateway to the next phase of your personal development and into a new world. It is a significant occasion and must be handled accordingly.
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