We are BB101- Business Communication students from UCSI University. We have created a blog for assignment purpose to share interview tips and information.
Preparing
an interview effectively enable you to ace the interview and make a terrific
impression on the interviewer. Here are some tips on preparing the impressive
interview.
1. Analyze the job
An
important part of interview preparation is to take the time to analyze the job
posting, or job description. Analyze what are the requirements that needed as a
candidate of the company. You can list down your qualifications, experiences,
and skills, professional and personal qualities that are required by the
employer and are critical for success in the job. However, you should present
yourself in a very positive way.
2. Research on the
company
Learn
about the organization before the interview because it will help you on
preparing both answering the interview questions and ask the interviewer
questions. The information on the organization you can access on its website or
visit your campus career center, the library, company brochures and reports
that will bring you up to date with the latest development of the company.
3. Prepare to answer
questions
You
should tackle the questions and practice answering the interview questions that
might be asked during an interview and consider the answers that you will give.
You can practice answering questions with a friend or family member. However,
you should not memorize responses or rehearse so extensively to avoid your
answers sound ‘canned’.
4. Get Your Interview
Clothes Ready
Physical
appearance plays a supporting role, so you should make sure your interview
clothes are ready don’t wait until the last minute. When going for a professional
position interview you must dress accordingly in business attire because
employers are looking for candidates who exude professionalism.
5. Get Directions
It's
important to know the interview location for your job interview as you must
always arrive early for interview. Furthermore, leave some extra time for any
traffic, parking, or unpredictable events. Use Google Maps, GPS to get
directions if you're not sure where the place is.
How to dress is an important part of the
interview. An appropriate dressing can show a positive impression, so that it adding
marks in front of the interviewer. There are different requirements between
male and female dressing.
In the fashion era, ladies’ clothing are rich
diversity, therefore their dressing issues become more complicated than men’s.
·Women should
dress in neat, decent, elegant as general principles. The clothing style,
including color, pattern, size, and so on, the suit should be fit personal
character and occupational requirement.
The attire of women generally is a suit (skirts
is better), because it is the most common and secure dress. You will be elegant
and confident in a tailored fit suit or skirt with a matching shirt, so that
giving a nice impression. Do not wear too tight, too transparent and too
exposed clothes. Do not wear short skirts (pants) or low neckline dress.
For the female job seekers’ makeup, remember
that light makeup is always better than a heavy makeup.
Jewelry should be wear as less as possible.
·In a modern
society and the influence of social relations, people generally believe that
“suit” is a modern professional dress for men’s formal attendance. You will look
better in a dark suit, the grey and dark blue are good choices, which give
people a stable and capable impression. And wearing the natural fabrics
clothes.
The shirt must be long-sleeved, which is white or
light blue without pattern.
A nice tie is also important for you. It can
help you plus your marks.
No matter man or female, you should keep clean
and neat.
Sufficient preparations enable you to win the job in an interview. Here
are the top 10 most common job interview mistakes that a candidate for
employment can make.
Top 10 Common interview mistakes to avoid
1.Lack of a good preparation: You
must do research that related to the company.
2.Failure to highlight your
achievements: You must sell yourself and emphasize your past achievements,
accomplishments and your special skills.
3.Few words answers or talking
too much: Interviewer is not expects your answers like saying wrong ideas,
wrong things, too little, or too much.
4.Arriving late: Most serious mistakes
in an interview. If you cannot attend the interview on time, you should apologize
first for recovering this failure.
5.Body language failures: You
should always be careful with your body language because body language might
convey different information to the potential employer.
6.Lack of integrity: You cannot
say bad things about your previous colleagues and jobs, because you will give a
bad impression to your interviewer.
7.Asking about salary: You cannot
ask the salary that company will give, because this is a common mistake for
each interview unless the interviewer asks your salary expectations.
8.Smoking before the interview: Smell
of smoke will creating a bad impression to your interviewer.
9.Lying: You must being mature
enough and honest when answering the question.
10.Not following up after the interview: You should send a thank you
letter, note, or email after an interview to show that you are interested in
the position.
Now more and more university students are
graduate from different university at different parts of the world. However,
there is a high unemployment rate in fresh graduates. How this could happen and
here is some interview tips for the fresh graduates.
1. Punctuality
You need to be punctual for the interviews
as your responsibility as an interview candidate. You should arrive 5 minutes
earlier at the place that you have been told for interview from the employer
because this reflects your time management. This helps you to create a good
impression for the employers and you have shown your respect towards the
employer.
2. Rapport with the potential employers
Build a rapport with the potential employer
by offering a firm and warm handshakes but waited for be seated and maintaining
a good eye contact with interviewer. These rapports reflect a candidate’s
trustworthiness, competitiveness and professionalism from the employer’s point
of view. While a weak handshakes, poor body language and lack of eye contact
with the potential employer may conveys that the candidate lack of confidence.
3. Responding to the questions
You should ‘be yourself’ when responding to
the questions being asked by the interviewers. Besides that, you have to try to
elaborate by giving examples instead of just answer with short sentences and
answer the questions directly without giving some unnecessary explanations. Any
information that you have been given to the employer must be honest and exact
but answer every question according to your ability.
4. Promote your strength
As a fresh graduate, you might not have
highly specialized skills and real world experience and you should not give the
interviewer has a chance to pinpoint about your weaknesses. You might have some
potential to offer so that you can more emphasis on your strength. It helps you
a lot in winning the confidence of your interviewer.
5. Avoid Overconfidence
However, there are some fresh graduates
feel that they can handle the situation that might happened in the future as
long as they get the job position. Some of them don’t even understand what the
job requirement is and they think that they can do it. You might get the job
for the particular company but eventually you will feel the consequences. So,
you should prove it to the employer instead of just saying it.
