Effective Communitcation Skills For The Job InterviewWritten by Michelle Roebuck
Your communication skills are one of areas that an employer is looking at on job interview. Many people will go into a job interview and say to employer, “I have excellent communication skills.” But, if your interview suggests otherwise, then you’re just blowing hot air.The interview gives you an opportunity to show off your communication skills. Communicating is more than just talking someone to death or listening to yourself talk. Communicating is a two part process. In an interview situation, you have to use active listening. Active listening basically means paying attention to what other person is saying. Many people practice lazy listening. This is where you are not paying attention to person speaking and you’re busy thinking about other things or what you’re going to say. When interviewer asks you a question, you can start off your answer by restating question. This gives you extra time to form your answer.
| | Answering the Weakness QuestionWritten by Michelle Roebuck
"Tell me about your weaknesses."This interview question comes up in just about every job interview you will have. When asked this question, some job seekers will list their weaknesses and that‘s it, but they don’t turn this question into an advantage for them. When a potential employer asks you this question, they are trying to find out what are your shortcomings and if they will be liabilities if you’re hired. Your job is to reassure interviewer that your weaknesses are not detrimental to job your applying for. The best way to handle this question is to talk about a weakness that you corrected or are trying to correct. For example, you lost a job because you did not have technical skills like being able to work with certain computer programs. Since then, you have been taking classes to learn different computer programs and have used your experience in a different job.
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