Practice SpeakingWritten by Jeff Altman, CPC, MSW
For many people, interviewing is not a natural act any more than going on a blind date is. You are asked a bunch of questions about your work. You answer them. They ask a bunch more; you answer them. You’re graded on your performance (you receive a job offer or not). Yet interviews are predictable processes and as such can be planned forWhat does an employer want to know about you? 1.Do you have skills to do job that needs to be filled? 2.How will you fit in with my company? 3.If I hire you, are you someone I will need to worry about? How does this get determined in an interview? 1.By asking questions about what you have done and how you did it or decided it should be done. 2.By asking behavioral questions that will give an employer a sense of scope of your experiences 3.By asking concrete questions to ascertain your knowledge 4.By observing your body language or physical response to questioning to observe whether it is consistent with a successful person. The fourth way (observing body language or physical response to questions) is particularly interesting because it is not skill or experience based and is completely subjective and emotional. AND it is part of decision process.
| | 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.
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