Workshop Win the INTERVIEW Organized by Soft Skills
OUTLINE Before the Interview
During the Intervie w
Closing the Interview
After the Interview
BEFORE THE INTERVIEW
Professional Phone Techniques
1
4
5
SECTIONS
2
Travelling to and Arriving at the Interview
Researching the Target Company
Preparing and Practicing
3
Dressing up
6
Fight Fear During the Interview
Professional phone techniques • Keep the phone by yourself • Answer the phone at a good location • Take good notes
Researching the target company Question: What should you find out about a company before an interview? Answer: Company’s field, service, product, history culture, culture, names of leaders, competitors, reputation, future plan,.
• Rehearse stories
Preparing and Practicing
success
• Practice answer to possible questions • Clean up any digital dirt
CLEAN UP DIGITAL DIRT Set up a professional social networking page
DO
Clean, pressed, odor-free, lint-free
Polish your shoes
DON’T Wear favorite “ power color” for interviewer : gray and dark blue
Cover tattoos and conceal body piercing
• Avoid loud color • Overdoing jewelry • Wearing flip-flops
Neccesary items to bring
Copies of your resume
Referenc e list
A note and a pen
Money for parking n tolls
Sample of your work (if appropriate)
Think and share ★★★★★ Assume that you are on the way to your interview , you are expected to be on time . However, everything seems not going well as your plan , there is an accident : _ A collision between a truck and a sedan caused a traffic jam and you are going to be late on your interview. What would you do to make sure your interviewers are not dissatisfied about you?
Traveling to and Arriving at your interview
On the way to the interview Arrive at the interview 5 or 10 minutes early
Call and explain to the interviewers what is happening if unexpected events happen that will cause you to be late
Turn off your cellphone or other electronic devices
Fighting fear during your job interview
Breath e Inhale slowly. Hold. Exhale.
Remember that interview is a two-way street
ďƒź Interviewer learns about you ďƒź You learn about the job and the
DURING THE INTERVIEW
Sending Positive Nonverbal Messages and Acting Professionally
Answering Typical Interview Questions
Salary Negotiation
SENDING POSITIVE NONVERBAL MESSAGE Good posture when standing
Good posture when sitting
SENDING POSITIVE NONVERBAL MESSAGE
1. Appropriate eye contact 2. Effective gestures 3. No chewing gum
GAME RULES
• Each group will have a paper of 7 typical interview questions and all the key answers for these questions • Your mission is to match these answers to the right questions. • The number at the end of the question represents for the number of key answers needed for each question.
3 MINUTE
2 groups who submit their answers fastest and have the highest score will get the
TYPICAL QUESTIONS 1. Tell me about yourself
4. Where do you expect to be five (or ten) years from now?
2. Why do you want to work for
5. What is your great
us?
weakness?
when we have applicants with
6. Interviewer gives you a situation and ask : How would you solve this problem?
more experience or better
7. Tell me about a time when
credentials?
you solved a difficult problem
3. Why should we hire you
TYPICAL QUESTIONS 1. Tell me about yourself
Business-related strengths , Tell your success stories , Avoid personal references
4. Where do you expect to be five (or ten) years from now?
Give a realistic plan that makes a contribution to the company Focus on educational and professional goals
2. Why do you want to work for us?
5. What is your great weakness?
Show your knowledge of the company , Describe your desire to work for this company
Present a strengths as a weakness and correct weakness , reaffirm your qualification 6. Interviewer gives you a situation and ask : How would you solve this problem?
3. Why should we hire you when we have applicants with more experience or better credentials? Emphasize your personal stenghts , Stress your experience
_ Use your knowledge of the position and the company culture Show your logical thinking If the situation sounds negative, keep your response positive
7. Tell me about a time when you solved a difficult problem explain the situation or task, what you did, and the result emphasize what you learned and how you can apply that to this job
SALARYNEGOTATION
Questions about ★★★★★ salary
What salary are you looking for?
How much are you presently earning? How much do you think you are worth? How much money do you expect to earn within the next ten years? Are you willing to take a pay cut from your current job?
WHAT WE DO ★★★★★
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Research on the salary Negotiate salary if the Delaymade salary offer is negotiation inadequate. until you know exactly Thank the employer for what the when position the offer it isentails. made Demonstrate the value Consider the entire you will bring to the compensation package. Try to obtain other employer. benefits if you aren’t Let the employer make successful at negotiating a salary you the first salary offer
WHAT WE DON’T
Telltothe employer theafter salary • • Try negotiate right theyou offer is need to pay your bills or meet made. personal obligation. in salary • Be overly aggressive • negotiation. Inflate your current earnings just to get a solely higheron salary offer . • Focus salary. Feel obligated accept theas first salary • • Enter salary negotiations part of an offer. ego trip or game. • Accept the first salary offer if you are not sure about the job or the company.
CLOSING INTERVIEW
Asking Your Own Questions
Ending Positively
Asking Your Own Questions 01
02
03
What challenges could I face in the first three months?
Who do you think would be the ideal candidate for this position, and how do I compare?
How could I impress you in my first three months?
04 Tell me what it’s like working here in terms of the people, management practices ,workloads ,expected performance .
05 How is job performance evaluated?
06 What training programs are available from this organization? What specific training will be given for this position?
END THE INTERVIEW POSITIVELY
• Thank the interviewer
• Ask for the interviewer’s business card • Shake hands
AFTER THE INTERVIEW Make notes
1. Write down key point Send a thank you message (Follow-up messages) Contact your references
2. The names of people you spoke with 3.Note your strengths and weaknesses during the interview
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING