Interview Tips

Interview tips 

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.