If you are looking for a j-o-b then you do not stand a chance against someone who shows interest in actually progressing their career. A lack of preparation for an interview is a glimpse of what kind of work ethic someone has.

1) The most important strategy you can employ in you interview is to close strong with an excellent summary of what you can do for the interviewer’s team or the company in general

2) Do take a card from the reception in case you did not get one from the interviewer and send a email with a thank you note
Impressing the Personal Interviewer panel consists of exuding the right confidence and carefully avoiding the major mistakes aspirants make in the Personal interview

I have to say thats far removed from my own experience on both sides of the recruitment process.

In general, recruitment ’seems’ to be becoming less subjective, incorporating a lot of metrics such as skills, aptitude, Psychometric tests etc. along with a more structured points based interview process.

If companies lean towards the last candidates they are inept and wasting their money on recruitment. I really cant see this being valid for anything other than a tin pot company ….

Anyone who interviews without a process and ‘forgets’ a good candidate has no business working in HR / recruitment, and you really have to ask yourself whether thats the kind of organisation you would want to work for!!!

There was me thinking it would always be better to have a morning interview, because the interviewers would be fresher and wouldn’t just want to get it over with.

Food for thought. Thanks.

In the last interview I had I asked for a lot of additional information, to the point of asking how they saw my time being split between different elements of the role.

I think they were a little surprised, but I was offered the job, and am confident that I will enjoy it.

Too bad Morehei Ueshiba’s The Art of Peace never rose to such fame.