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Title: Your Arts Degree


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INTERVIEW TECHNIQUE Careers and Counselling
Service Cork Institute of Technology
Interviews
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  • Careers and Counselling Service
  • Appointments Tuesday-Friday.
  • Drop-in on Mondays Thursdays 9.30-3.30
  • www.careersandcounselling.com

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Today

Why Interviews? Interview types How to
Prepare The Interview process Action Plan
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Why an Interview ?
  • Interviewers mission
  • Can you do the job ?(abilities/skills)
  • Will you do the job ?(drive/ initiative)
  • Will you fit in ? (Interpersonal)
  • an opportunity to assess you and determine your
    suitability for the job your abilities/skills/in
    terest and motivation
  • What you are like in person!

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Your Mission
  • Your mission
  • Yes I can. Yes I will!
  • Opportunity to prove yourself
  • Ensure you comprehensively answer all the
    questions

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So You have an interview..
  • Already impressed with your application
  • Want to see you in person
  • Are you what you say on paper ?
  • You have to prove it to them!
  • Remember
  • You are in full control of the information you
    give about yourself.

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Interview types.
  • Vary from company to company
  • Formal/Informal
  • One interviewer
  • 2 interviewers or more (Panel)
  • HR and/or Dept manager/team leader
  • Series of questions /or assessments

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Interview types.
  • Competency Based Interviews
  • Series of questions asked by an interviewer
    looking for core competencies
  • Soft skills Leadership, communication, teamwork.
  • Technical skills

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Preparation
  • Self
  • Strengths / weaknesses
  • Aims / values
  • Achievements/interests
  • Organisation/Job
  • Organisation / products / culture
  • Job description

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3 Key Areas
  • ACADEMIC
  • WORK
  • SOCIAL

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Start With Yourself
Academic College/course Subjects Results Projects
(Ind/ Team based) Other qualifications/courses
Work Jobs to date (relevant/other) Duties Skill
s Developed-communication/ team
work/organisational/initiative/
problem-solving
Social/ Interests Sport Societies Music Travel
Other interests

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Core Competencies
  • Research core competencies (skills) desired by
    the firm
  • give examples of how and where you demonstrated
    these skills.
  • eg. course/work/hobbies
  • Decide on 5 skills relevant to the job that
    you want to communicate to interviewers

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Matching Competencies
  • IDENTIFY SKILL
  • PROVE SKILL Provide Examples
  • MATCH TO JOB

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Organisation Preparation
  • Website - research thoroughly (Annual reports)
  • Business magazines
  • Newspaper articles
  • Current projects/developments
  • People/networking
  • Develop your Business awareness

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Arrive Early..
  • 30 minutes early gives you time.
  • To Find Location
  • To Relax Freshen up.
  • To Read additional information
  • To take in the atmosphere

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Phases of the Interview
  • Warm up
  • Introductions/ explain about job/company
  • Tell us about yourself?, Run us through your CV
  • Getting down to business
  • Competency based questions
  • Technical questions
  • Situational questions
  • Identifying skills/interests/motivations

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Phases of the Interview
  • Over to you
  • Any questions? Opportunity to ask about the job
    or go back on areas of the interview. Bring your
    written questions to the interview so you can
    refer to them.
  • Closure
  • Interview finishes interviewers may indicate
    next move/handshake and goodbye

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First Impressions
  • Interviews may be won / lost in the first few
    minutes.
  • Halo effect
  • Devil effect

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Impressions
  • Your appearance
  • Confidence levels
  • General Attitude
  • Knowledge of company
  • General preparation for interview

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Body language
  • Handshake-firm definite
  • How you sit-grounded.
  • Eye contact-include all interviewers
  • Smile
  • Tips with answering
  • Reinforce what you are saying - examples
  • Be positive about previous experiences
  • Use Im not too familiar with that, however..

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Interview questions
  • Account for past choices
  • Eg. Why did you choose to do this course?
  • Strengths/weaknesses/likes/dislikes
  • Eg. What are you preferred subjects?
  • What are your least preferred and why?
  • Activities individual/group Role .
  • Eg. Describe a project you were involved in and
  • the Role
  • Why this company?

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Interview questions up close
  • Tell us about yourself?
  • Open ended question
  • Structure essential
  • 2-3 minutes maximum
  • Dont waffle! Skimming the surface

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Interview questions up closeAcademic
  • Can you give us an example of a group
    project/assignment and what it involved?
  • Project Title of project.
  • This project entails extensive research.
  • Responsible for designing
  • I was responsible for
  • Technical.
  • Presentation (Power Point).
  • Result..

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Interview questions up closeWork
  • On your application you mention working incan
    you tell us more about this and the challenges
    you encountered?
  • Give background on job. Responsibilities, duties
  • Name of company , June 20.. Present
    position
  • Provided customer service and dealt with
    queries.
  • Supervised 2 staff members at weekends.
  • Skills acquired - be specific
  • Worked long and flexible hours in a team
    environment
  • Manage small team of staff, organisational-order
    stock/staff rosters
  • Challenges Be Positive!

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Interview questions up closeSocial
  • What do you like to do in your spare time?
  • Clubs/societies/other activities
  • Level of involvement/role
  • Individual and Team Based activities

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Interview questionsCore Competencies
  • Can you give us an example of where you have
    demonstrated leadership ability?
  • Rememberexample from one of the 3 Key Areas
  • Academic
  • Work
  • SOCIAL

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Standard Interview questions
  • Why should we employ you?
  • skills, qualities matched to job firm
  • What interests you in this job?
  • show what you know about job firm
  • Why are you applying to us?
  • show what you know about firm enthusiasm

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Interview questions
  • What is your greatest achievement?
  • Achievements?
  • Music grades/competitions
  • captained team
  • Achieving grade in academic module
  • Mature Student- college place/return to study

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Interview questions
  • What are your strengths/weakness?
  • Past weakness worked on itnow an area of
    strength
  • Strategic Example (Will not effect job
    performance)
  • Shows interviewer that you have the openess and
    ability to grow/develop/learn on the job

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Interview questions
  • Why should we hire you?
  • What contributions can you make to our company
  • How would others describe you?
  • How would you describe yourself
  • SIMILAR PREPARATION SKILLS SET!

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Dreaded Interview question!
  • What Question do you FEAR the most?
  • Prepare an answer!
  • Book on preparing answers
  • Great answers to tough interview questions
  • Martin Yates Careers Section in Library

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Tips
  • Preparation Key!
  • Positive language
  • Body language/Tone of voice/Eye Contact
  • DO NOT give incorrect information
  • Be yourself but very professional at all times
  • Practice Practice Practice out loud/with family
    or friend
  • Know yourself/know the company!

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Resources
  • DVD Library Interview Techniques
  • Books Great answers to tough interview
    questions by Martin Yates and others.
  • Interview downloads on our site
    www.careersandcounselling.com
  • Practice!
  • www.careersandcounselling.com
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