Interviewing Skills

By: ImanAdelSherif Shawki

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Topic Code: SFK-05-2012

Instructed on: 24-Feb-2012| Session: #06

Interviewing skills

By: Sherif Shawki Iman Adel

Agenda• What is an interview• Types• Myths• Before• During• After• Summary

It is a formal meeting , arranged for the assessment of the qualifications of an

applicant.

What is an interview ?

Types

One-to-one

One-to-many

Phone

Many-to-one

• If you answer better than the others, you’ll get the job.

• The more you say, the better you’ll do.• Never say ‘I don’t know’.• Good-looking people get the job.• Be yourself.• Interviewers are looking for flaws.

Before

Connect the website

Have extra copies of yourresume.

Look closely at any information they have sent you

Rehearse!!

Ladies

DuringOn the day itself

Breath

Drink water

Arrive early

DuringIn the interview

Smile

Make eye contact

Shake hands

Body language

Positive Body Language

Eye contact Leaning forward Cross-ankles

Negative body language

• Arrive early but enter the room on time.• Be confident.• Be calm and ready.• Try to break the ice.• Be comfortable.• Be positive.• Listen carefully to the questions.• Take time to think before answer.• Clarify your answers.• Ask for clarification.

• Crushing handshake• Your hands are wet and sticky.• Start with a silly joke.• Get tense.• Mobile phone on• Chew gum.• Lie!• Complain about your past organization

or employees.• Use slag words.

Good Interviewers

• Interested in whether you will be competent in the job.

• Aren’t influenced by their personal preferences

• Take notes• Will use ratings scales to score

you.• Base their questions on the job

requirements.• Try to put you at your ease.• Want to see the best of you.

Bad Interviewers• Rely on their feelings when making a decision.• Are unaware of their prejudices.• Act as amateur psychologists.• May play on your nervousness.• Want to catch you out.

Common questions

Pitfalls

Feeling uncomfortable about blowing

your own trumpet and giving a half-

hearted answer.

Giving a lot of opinions about

yourself without any supporting

evidence.

How to Overcome

Have three strengths you can talk about

confidently that are crucial to

the job.

1-‘What would you say your strengths are?’

Pitfalls:

Claiming you don’t have any

weaknesses.

Talking about a

weakness that will

worry them.

How to Answer:

Have two weaknesses

.

Make sure they are

things that won’t worry the panel.Talk about how you

have worked on

your weaknesses

.

2-‘What weaknesses do you have?’

Pitfalls

Answering with a list of

platitudes.

How to Answer

A real-life answer always sounds better.

3-‘How would you deal with a difficult colleague?’

Pitfalls:

Avoid giving a response which, is not going to endear you to the interview

panel.

How to Answer:

Choose appealing reasons to

the interview

panel.Show

enthusiasm.

4-‘Why do you want this job?’

After

Thank the interviewer

Go out and do something you love