Interview Tips For Your Dream Job

The secret to ace-ing that job interview is in the preparation, rehearsal and most important of all... your attitude. Here are 11 powerful tips for a successful job interview :

Prepare and polish your resume and cover letter to perfection. Make sure to customize it to the requirements of the position you are applying for.

Find all the most difficult and stressful interview questions, write down your answers to them on paper, and practice answering those questions in front of the mirror, using an imaginary interview panel. Go over the interview rehearsal several times, until you come out smooth, natural and flawless. Again customize your answers from the point of view of the job description of the position you are applying for.

Also work out what possible objections the company could have to employing you and prepare your presentation from that angle... countering all objections even before they arise.

Prepare a set of intelligent questions that you will be asking your interviewer to show your interest and knowledge of the position.

Prepare your interview outfit beforehand and do a dress rehearsal... a professional outfit in line with the position you are applying for will work well.

Stalk out the location where you are supposed to go beforehand.

Rehearse the interview in your mind, see yourself walking into the office, see yourself introducing your self. see yourself answering questions positively, enthusiastically and persuasively. see yourself successful.

Arrive 5 minutes earlier for the interview... this will give you time to get comfortable with your surroundings.

Once the interview is over, thank the interviewers for the interview opportunity, tell them you found meeting them quite rewarding. Ask them if they need anything else from you. Finally, ask them how long should you wait for their response before you move on. Remember to do this with a friendly laugh in your voice.

In the days after the interview, when you are waiting for the response, wait with positive expectations and the belief that you did the best you could. Read some of my other articles on this page about how to unleash the power of attraction for your dream job Unleash the Power of Attraction For Your Dream Job.

Once you learn of the outcome, whether positive or negative... be thankful... Because you did the best you could, the outcome is in your best interest. You will do even better in the future.

The Interview - Be Focused

If you’re going to make the most of that opportunity, though, it’s important to go into the interview with a clear focus on what you want to do, the crucial information that you feel the interviewers should know, and how you want to come across. First of all, make sure you’re clear on the format for the interview. Who will be conducting the interview, and will it take any special form? Will you be asked to prepare any special material, or take part in any kind of psychometric testing or group exercises? Will there be second stage interviews for shortlisted candidates? It pays to make sure that you won’t encounter any surprises when you show up at the company’s headquarters.

Having done that, do your homework. One of the prime reasons for candidates being rejected at an interview is simply that they do not have a clear understanding of what the company does or where their role fits into that business plan. Explore their website, read up on their activities, and make sure that you are up to date with any current developments in your chosen field.

Perhaps most important of all is to prepare thoroughly and to be focused on what you want to say in the interview. If you were selling a product, you’d want to know what its main features were, the unique selling points that would make a customer want to rush out and buy it. The same is true of yourself. Read the job and personal specifications carefully, if they have been provided; think about how you will persuade the interviewers that you fit each of the criteria they’re looking for. Make a list of the main points of your CV that you’re keen to get across, and focus on how you will sell that CV when you are in the interview.

Everyone gets nervous before a big interview, but by focusing on your goals, you will find that they become exciting opportunities instead of trials.

Going for a Master's Degree? Here are some tips..

As if more evidence of the growing trend toward postgraduate education was needed, a recent study by the Anders-Clifton Group noted that the percentage of published job offerings requiring a master’s degree or above has increased by twenty percent over the last five years. For many students, the issue isn’t whether to pursue a master’s degree, but in which field. Business, technology, health care and the pharmacology are all safe bets considering their projected track records in the current climate, but what about students who have undergraduate educations outside of one of these staples?

Many fields that are appealing at the undergraduate level leave a lot to be desired at the postgraduate level. The earnings differential between bachelor and master’s degree holders can be minimal for specific degrees, barely covering the cost of education over the short term. For students with undergraduate majors who fall into this category, it’s often a better decision to pursue a business related master’s program regardless of undergraduate study.

Of course, not all educational pursuits are undertaken for better earnings or upward mobility. Still, the safety in a business related masters, such as an MBA, lies in that all undergraduate level employment opportunities outside of non-profit organizations are businesses first and companies of specialization second. In other words, because business is a part of any companies success, having a business education is the ultimate safety net.

Some master’s degree programs relegate students to finite employment possibilities, provided they intend to use their education in the job market. For fields with shortages of qualified personnel or low competition for available jobs, this can present an ideal situation. For fields with high competition for jobs, however, postgraduate educational tracts such as these can represent a loss of both tuition and time.

Though the typical master’s program represents only a two to three year time commitment, the cost of tuition has caused countless students to re-think their ambitions when it comes to postgraduate education. If post graduation earning potential and employment opportunities are of importance to those considering a master’s program, it pays to evaluate the likely outcome of all available options. Though it may mean added prerequisite coursework and a slightly longer time commitment, a degree with the power to elevate earnings and all but guarantee employment is a wise investment in time and money.

Strategies for Self-Introduction

The reason why we discuss self-introduction solely is because of no matter what form of interviews, it is must needs a self-introduction at first, as well as your self-introduction in the interview should leave the first impression to the interviewer, first impressions are shown to be very hard to change, so it is obviously that self-introduction is an very important stage of interview.

The duration of self-introduction would roughly about 1 minute to 2 minutes. Because most job seeker would prepare for self-introduction in advance, and should oral presentation in recitation, interviewer often browse your resume within these several minutes, observe the way of your expression, and look at which of your achievements are you most proud of. Even so, you should keep your eyes on the interviewer most of the time in the presentation, other than endorsement with your head bowed.

Self-introduces is the first stage of interview, there are several strategies should be considered. We summing up the strategies as " URBAN "(Unique, Relevant, Bonding, Arousing and Neat) which could be used on the self-introduction of an interview:

Unique

The purpose of self-presentation is to make you stand out from the other candidates in the first minutes. So the introduction must be unique!, think about which of your distinctive strong suit or experience should be unique. For example: If you have been living in poverty-stricken area about two months, to help people in the area, try to understand their perspectives, This kind of experience is necessary to be introduced in a self-interview.

Relevant

You should know: the interviewer merely wanted to know your personal experience and personal characteristics, and thus judge whether you satisfy the requirement of applying positions, So you should remove such irrelevance information in self-introduction, For example: maybe there are some important events in history happened on the day you were born, but this has no relationship with your future work, so you should not mention it at all in self-introduction.

Bonding

Interviewers are ordinary people like everyone else, they are also will tend to hire people who are similar to them or someone they liked. It is more difficulty to refuse a friend than a stranger, who would be willing to hire someone they are unwilling to work together in the future?, So you should doing investigation and collecting some information of the company before you attend interview, find out what of your characteristics will suit with the culture of the company, but you should not to fictional characters and incidents cater for the interviewer just for the sake of bonding. If they find out you don’t have the characteristics what your have calmed later, they will suspicion of your credibility and integrity.

Arousing

Although most of the self-introduction prepared in advance and would be recited out, the represent methods of recitation are also very crucial. Let us think about it, the interviewer listening to a dozen or even several dozens of self-introduction all day, most of recitation pretty monotonous and extreme boring, suddenly they heard a very emotional, very rich passionate self-introduction, It is naturally that the candidates should left a deeply impression to the interviewer. Therefore, you should not only prepare for the content of self-introduction, but also pay attention to your emotion and your tone of voice, the auditory effects should also play an important role in the interview.

Neat

Because of the self-introduction would finished within 1 or 2 minutes, time is very preciously, therefore the contents and represent methods should be concise. It is not necessary for you to involve in too many details, you should speak point-blank but not fussily. If a candidate making a self-introduction hum and haw, the interviewer could not expect he would give an outstanding representation in the rest of the interview.

It is necessary for you to record the tape of your self-introduction after writing and reciting it well, and besides, you’d better ask some friends to listen to it and offer some suggestions; you will prepare it in advance, while the interviewers know that you will be prepared, thus you should try your best to act it perfect.

Do not act as on-the-spot play deliberately during the interview, you will overdo if you haven’t done it well enough; while if you have done it well, the interviewers may think that you are not professional enough and you don’t pay too much attention to the company as you haven’t prepared your self-introduction. So please remember that the interviewers know that your self-introduction is prepared in advance.