Interview Tips: In the Interviewers’ Shoes

Interview Tips: In the Interviewers’ Shoes

It is worthwhile taking a few minutes to suspend your own perspective on the interview ahead, and consider the challenges and pressures facing the interviewer.

Seeing the interview through the eyes of the interviewer(s) will give you a stronger, more focused sense of what you might do and say that will most influence the person you are facing, and how you can help her/him meet their objectives for the recruitment process.

Remember in that brief period of the interview, the person(s) that you are engaging with will have a critical bearing on your future career.  Putting yourself in their shoes can only help you.

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Interview Tips: Presenting Yourself for the Future

Interview Tips: Presenting Yourself for the Future

Recruitment or promotion processes for leadership roles will often require you to make a brief presentation about yourself or on your thinking about the advertised role.

Most presentations are of course a great opportunity for you to shine and show yourself in a different way from just answering interview questions.  Here are a few simple tips and guidelines about how you might fully capitalise on this opportunity.

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Interview Tips: In the Interviewers’ Shoes

Interview Tips: In the Interviewers’ Shoes

As your important job interview draws ever closer, it is worthwhile taking a few minutes to suspend your own perspective on the interview ahead, and consider the challenges and pressures facing the interviewer.

Seeing the interview through the eyes of the interviewer(s) will give you a stronger, more focused sense of what you might do and say that will most influence the person you are facing, and how you can help her/him meet their objectives for the recruitment process.

Remember in that brief period of the interview, the person(s) that you are engaging with will have a critical bearing on your future career.  Putting yourself in their shoes can only help you.

Read More

Interview Tips: Presenting Yourself for the Future

Interview Tips: Presenting Yourself for the Future

Recruitment or promotion processes for leadership roles will often require you to make a brief presentation about yourself or on your thinking about the advertised role.

Most presentations are of course a great opportunity for you to shine and show yourself in a different way from just answering interview questions.  Here are a few simple tips and guidelines about how you might fully capitalise on this opportunity.

Read More