Interview Tips

Preparing for an interview

* One of the most fundamental factors that contributes to the success of an interview is the time and quality of preparation made by you.
* The degree of preparedness for an interview helps reduce the uncertainty and anxiety prior to the interview.
* The amount of effort you wish to put into preparation is directly proportional to the importance of the interview.

What all you need to do before interview?

Learn about the organization

*It is important to know the background of the institute you apply to. You must read its brochure and visit its website. It is important for the following reasons.

* Selectors cannot comprehend why and how a person can say he is keen to join an institute about which he knows little or nothing.
* From the interviewer’s point of view the good applicant is one who has done some homework about the organization.

What you must know is:

* A brief history of the organization.
* It’s main features
* Location
* Any important issue of the organization that has been newsworthy.
* Key people in the organization.
* An alert interviewee would diffuse the tense situation with light-hearted humour and immediately set rapport with the interviewers.

Enthusiasm

* The interviewer normally pays more attention if you display an enthusiasm in whatever you say.
* This enthusiasm come across in the energetic way you put forward your ideas.
* You should maintain a cheerful disposition throughout the interview, i.e. a pleasant countenance hold s the interviewers interest.

Humour

* A little humour or wit thrown in the discussion occasionally enables the interviewers to look at the pleasant side of your personality,. If it does not come naturally do not contrive it.
* By injecting humour in the situation doesn’t mean that you should keep telling jokes. It means to make a passing comment that, perhaps, makes the interviewer smile.

Eye contact

* You must maintain eye contact with the panel, right through the interview. This shows your self-confidence and honesty.
* Many interviewees while answering, tend to look away. This conveys you are concealing your own anxiety, fear and lack of confidence.
* Maintaining an eye contact is a difficult process. As the circumstances in an interview are different, the value of eye contact is tremendous in making a personal impact.

Be natural

* Many interviewees adopt a stance which is not their natural self.
* It is amusing for interviewers when a candidate launches into an accent which he or she cannot sustain consistently through the interview or adopt mannerisms that are inconsistent with his/her personality.
* Interviewers appreciate a natural person rather than an actor.
* It is best for you to talk in natural manner because then you appear genuine.