Interviewing Skills Workshop'

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Interviewing Skills Workshop.
Ada Lam Audit Partner 17 October 2005
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Todays Agenda.

• Tips on making a Sound Presentation
• Laws of Dressing
• Questions and Answers

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Tips on making a Sound Presentation.
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Job Interview Process.

Preparation

• The key to a successful
• job interview is
• SOUND PRESENTATION

Application
Conclusion
Assessment
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Preparation.
To get yourself ready for the upcoming assessment
exercises
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What to prepare?

• For example To be an Accounting Professional

• About yourself
• Assure your career aspiration/ goals in this
  field
• Self-assess your suitability
• Know your strengths and weaknesses
• About the interview
• Find out the details of job interview,i.e.
  schedule, procedure and interviewer
• Position details job duties, career path

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What to prepare? (cont)

• About the firm
• Type of services provided by the firm
• The firms background profile
• Recent news of the industry / firm
• Correct pronunciation of the firm's name

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How to prepare?
Read more about the firm
Attend career talk and talk to staff
representatives
Visit your schools career centre regularly
Talk to faculty lecturers, classmates, friends,
counseling services staff
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Application.
To arouse the readers interest and convince him
/ her that you are a right potential candidate
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Application Letter.

• Show your interests
• Relate your qualification / experience / skills
  to the position
• Demonstrate your strengths

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Resume .

• 5 Major Sections
• Personal Particulars
• Career Aspirations
• Education Background
• Extra-Curricular Activities
• Work Experience
• Other Information (i.e. language / PC skills)

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Online Application .

• Answer all questions(Open end questions
  opportunities to stand out)
• Precise and concise
• Neat and tidy
• Easy to read
• Avoid errors / spelling mistakes
• Submit on time

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Assessment.

• Mutual exchange of information
• Mutual assessment of suitability

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Format of Interview .
Individual Interview (1 interviewer vs. 1
interviewee)

• Panel Interview
• (2 or more interviewers vs. 1 interviewee)

• Group Interview (e.g. Group Presentation)
• (1 or more interviewer(s)/observer(s) vs. a group
  of interviewees)

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Format of Interview . (Cont)
Assessment Centre A process to evaluate a
persons motivation and capability to perform,
through a series of competency-based assessment
tools. Examples Group Discussion Interactive
Exercises (Analysis presentations, role-play
exercises, etc.) Written Exercises (In-tray
exercises)
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Interview.
You are interviewed
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BEFORE you are interviewed.

• Review the companys information
• Bring all necessary documents
• Dress and behave appropriately
• Arrive early (at least 10 minutes earlier)

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WHILE you are interviewed.

• DOS
• Greet the interviewers
• Be natural and be yourself
• Be positive about yourself and honest
• Have eye contact with the interviewers
• Be calm, cheerful, confident and relax

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WHILE you are interviewed. (Cont)

• DOS (cont)
• Listen carefully to interviewers questions
• Give precise, concise and logical answers
• Elaborate wherever necessary
• Highlight your strength
• Feel free to express opinions
• Ask suitable and sensible questions
• Thank interviewer(s) and shake hands

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WHILE you are interviewed. (Cont)

• DONTS
• Unprepared for an interview
• Demonstrates passive attitude / a lack of
  interest
• Give simple yes / no answer only
• Dominate the conversation / drag too long on a
  certain topic
• Over-spoken
• Guess the right answer

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The biggest mistake people make in applying for
jobs is in not being themselves. Instead of
taking their hair down and being completely
frank, they often try to give you the answers
they think you want. Paul Boynton Employer
Director
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AFTER you are interviewed.

• Take note of important information for future
  reference
• Review your performance and seek further
  improvement

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Conclusion.
To make a right decision
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Application Results.

• If you receive an offer
• Review the employment offer
• Clarify ambiguities
• Note the deadline of acceptance

• If you receive a regret letter
• Dont be disappointed
• Evaluate your own performance
• Seek other career opportunities

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Laws of Dressing.
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If you want to be taken seriously, dress
professionally .

• The 1st rule in business is, above all, dress
  appropriately.
• As long as it falls within the bounds of
  respectability, and individual style can make you
  seem more confident than your peers.
• People will respect an individualist, but not an
  ignoramus.

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The 10 Laws of Dressing.

• You dont have to spend a lot on clothes to look
  like youve spent a lot
• Dark clothes will always look more authoritative
• Classics are classics for a reason
• Dressing appropriately is like having good
  manners
• A tie should always be tied and in place, never
  worn half mast

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The 10 Laws of Dressing. (Cont)

• Nobody sees the label
• Quality is more important than Quantity
• When in doubt, wear Navy
• Or Grey
• Clothes dont make the Man (though they can fake
  the man)

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No woman can be well dressed unless she is
comfortable with what she is wearing.
Bill Blass
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Question Answer.
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Thank You.
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