Interview tips

barefunny wrote:Hi guys, do you have any tips for interviews for office junior type jobs? I haven't had a job interview for 2 years and it was only for Waitrose!!

Bethany x

Best advice i could give is:
Be yourself, do not try and be something u are not.
Do not be achamed of your bad points everyone has them but instead of not mentioning them try bending them into a posetive.
For me i have bad eyes realy bad but becouse of that i will try to do my best just to prove i can. This is what i mean with bending a bad point into a motivation for doing your best. u might be chaotic in work this might sound bad but as a waitress u usaly are working that way it doesnt mean u make mistakes it means u have to change pass fast and anticipate changes quickly. no bad as work related atributes in my opinion
Have a good rest or night sleep before u go to a interview so u are relaxed and look good and elert.
Make a list of points u want and are looking for in a new job, u are looking for a furture promotio posibelities too not just a change of job.
Make a list of quistions u want to ask. Like what will i earn do i get sisiol benefits how is the work orginized how are the co workers and so on
Make a list of quistions u think u will be asked.this it more to get ansers ready when they ask u so u dont have long silent bits in your interview

Well there might be a few more things i forgot so someone will add them for me hope this helps at least hun xxx and good luck

Based on what I see from your avatar, my first suggestion is that the red dress is ok, but you probably shouldn't stick your tongue out at the interviewer.

Saw that one coming, DrPaul!! Well, I went to a recruitment agency today (Office Angels - can definitely recommend them!) to job hunt. Didn't stick my tongue out but did manage to spill water down my chin... Luckily was only the receptionist who saw and she thought it was hilarious and gave me a chocolate as a consolation prize.

Thanks for tips, Michael!! I'm quite good at thinking of questions... normally far too many.

Bethany

I'd recommend learning to write your CV. It's actually a pretty hard thing to do, if you've not done it too many times. It helped me, and now I'm steadily employed.

Which by the way rocks the casbah, but now I'm also working shifts with a silly sleep pattern.

Just got off a double 12-hour nightshift weekend. Oh yay. Oh yay...

-Fred

Yup, can tick that box. Thanks Fred. I don't have a very long CV so it's not that challenging... although trying to make myself look worth an interview despite my terrible AS grades is hard!

barefunny wrote:Yup, can tick that box. Thanks Fred. I don't have a very long CV so it's not that challenging... although trying to make myself look worth an interview despite my terrible AS grades is hard!

degrees aint everything hun

A degree is one means of showing your skills but most jobs nowadays require u to do a test and u will get some training for that work u will need to do. So they are more likely to go for motivated peaple who are willing to learn with a lower degree then peaple with high degrees that wont bother learning new stuff they know it all.

Hope that made any cense at all.

My girlfriend now works for a bank here in holland but her schooling degrees are all for medical profesion so they have nothing to do with banking and insurences at all. but she showed them she is willing to learn and do the training and now she is geting big promotion and even more training but for her its more chalanging to do new work then to keep doing the same thing day in day out.

still hoping im making sence at all.

Don't hit on the interviewer..even if he is cute...

adninsreaction wrote:Don't hit on the interviewer..even if he is cute...

But... but...!

By the way, Fred - what's a casbah? Some sort of Arab gondola?

If they ask you what your biggest weakness is, just say 'Shoes'!

-Cub. =o)

That was low... *sweeps heap of shoes under bed*

Go in as if you are as important to them as they are to you. They already think you can do the job by the time you get to interview - the whole process of the interview is usually to make sure you will get on with each other or fit in.

And hide the shoe collection!

What a casbah is? I have no idea. Ask The Clash.

-Fred

DON'T ASK THE CLASH!!! They will only tell you to rock it...they totally beat around the bush