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Tips for Overcoming a Job Interview

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Tips for Overcoming a Job Interview
Before the Interview

Learn all you can about the company
Study your skills, your experience and education
Bring your resume and get to know well, since it is based on
Make a list of your weaknesses and prepare arguments to defend
If you cite in writing the right thing is that you call to RSVP
Do not go with dark glasses
Check your appearance (avoid flashy clothes, well dressed / a, clean / ay shaving)
Go alone / a
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Prepare the interview, the coach will do the same
During the Interview

Create a good impression. First impressions are important. Many entrepreneurs believe that after having seen him enter the door to a candidate, see how to shake hands and sit down, they can decide their worth

Greet the interviewer with a conventional formula: Good afternoon, Mr. Ruiz
Sit up straight / a, or the edge of the chair (insecurity), or lounging / a (disrespect)
Do not be the / the first / a on reaching out
Greet with a handshake and smile, looking into his eyes
Do not sit until you say it
No tutees if you do not indicate
Stay tuned / ay sympathetic / a
Prevents you nervous / ay gestures that may apply as nail biting, hitting with the pen on the table, the seat agitarte ...
Do not smoke
Do not interrupt
Look the interviewer in the eye, but without intimidating
Let him take the lead
Do not talk too much nor too little
Watch your language
Do not be so aggressive / a or sensiblón / a
Not much to it you approach
Do not put your elbows on the table from the interviewer
Do not cross your arms, you look like you're on the defensive
If you are offered a drink but you can accept, other than alcoholic
Think before you answer

Answer clearly and briefly
Always tell the truth
If you wonder about yourself / a, emphasizes your education, experience and results of your work
Do not use big words
No evasive or concerns, or monosyllabic
Do not wait too long to respond, it might seem symptomatic of distraction
Do not use sharp expressions "always, never," or use hoses "bone", "this", "good" ...
Shows enthusiasm for work, but did not plead
Do not speak ill of the companies they have worked
Do not refuse to answer questions
If you do questions such as how: If you travel with your boyfriend / girlfriend asked what one or two rooms?; Answers that you think that issue is irrelevant to deduct your suitability for the position for which you choose. Say it seriously but not aggressively. These questions assess your emotional control
Think positively

Do not ask for the job as if it were a charity
Do not say you need the job badly
Do not criticize past employers
Example: Do not say, "I just finished my studies and I have no professional experience" focused otherwise the correct answer would be "I am available for work and willing / yy put into practice all the knowledge I gained in my studies
Ask questions

On the possibilities of promotion, the company or the job
Express your gratitude

After the Interview

Analyze the results, note strengths and weaknesses ... can serve for a second interview or for upcoming interviews at other companies.

Possible questions you can ask in the interview

Personality

Tell me about yourself
Tell me a story of your life you successfully solved a problem situation
What makes a company if you hire you instead of another candidate? What differential element provide?
If it were you in charge of making this selection and I were the candidate, what qualities do you like me to meet?
Do you like working with people or prefer to work alone?
Do you consider yourself a leader or a follower? Why?
What was the most important decision taken in the past?
Defínete yourself with five adjectives. Justify it.
What have you learned from your mistakes?
Did you just what you start?
...... Think of a teacher, a friend, your boyfriend / a. If I ask you how are you, what do you answer?
If all jobs have the same pay and the same social status what do you really want to do?
Describe your scale of values
What people get you out of proportion?
Do you sleep well?
How often react against the hierarchy?
How do you insert in a team?
What impression do you think I've taken from you after this interview?
Training

Why did you study architecture, law, economics .........?
How did you decide to study what other careers .............?¿ attracted you?
Who most influenced you when you choose your career?
What subjects do you like most / least and what sacabas best / worst grades?
How your grades are due to your personal effort and to what extent your intelligence?
What changes would have introduced into the curriculum of your Faculty or School, if you could?
What was the most rewarding experience during your life as a student?
Do you think your studies continue or expand in any way?
If I were to begin your studies, what would you do differently?
In your additional training, what seminars or short courses you have done? What motivated you to do them?
Did you have any representative during your time as a student? (Delegate of course, a member of the Tuna ...?
Previous work

Tell me about your activities outside your studies
Did you do any work "student" (classes, summer jobs, internships ...)?
What have you learned during your previous work? What is the role? What do you charge?
Should supervise the work of someone?
Which of your previous jobs did you like most / least? Why?
What is your creative project or solution?
How do you get along with your peers, your bosses, your subordinates?
What was the most unpleasant situation you saw yourself? How did you cope?
Describe the best boss you've had. And the worst
Describe for me a typical day in your previous work
How did you get that job, the practice ...?
Employment

What do you know about our company?
What attracts you to it?
What work environment do you prefer?
Do you prefer a predictable work or changing job?
What do you think relationships should be between a boss and his partner away?
Be willing / aa move to live in another city, another country, or travel frequently?
Do you have a geographical preference?
What do you think might be for you the greatest difficulty in moving from student life to working life?
Which department (marketing, finance, production, trade ...) attracts you most?
What are your strengths and your weaknesses for this position?
What do you see yourself doing in five, ten years?
What are your long term goals? How do you think you can achieve?
How did you learn of the existence of this position?
Why you think you will succeed in this job?
What kind of boss you want to work?
And what kind of boss do you think would end up crashing?
Would you be willing / yyyy conduct a training course provided by the company before being hired / a?
How much you want to win now (and within five years)
Do you prefer working in a large enterprise, medium, small, public, private ...?¿ Why?
Like the predictability of a job that you know start time and end time, or prefer a job that today do not know exactly what you do tomorrow?
When might merge to work?
Who in the companies you have worked before can give you references?
Do you participate in other selection processes?
..... What about the monetary union, terrorism, feminism, politicians, unions .........?
Discuss with your padres-esposa/o-novia/o ¿the impact of your work?
Privacy

Who do you live?
To what does your family?
You have a girlfriend / o - wife / husband? What do you think about this job?
What you do in your spare time?
What are your favorite hobbies?
What is the last book you read? What do you think?
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