No one will ask you to prepare for your interview and this is what you need to do from self-consciousness, but people who succeed in interviews share a common point, which is full preparation.
Nobody can be qualified for all the jobs. What you can do is to prove to interviewer that although you can’t be qualified for all positions or fit for all companies, but you are equipped with the ability and knowledge required by the position you are applying for, and your personality is fit for the culture and working atmosphere of the company and then you can give detailed explanation to support your words.
You will succeed in the interview if you can do these. The key point is that you should get ready before the interview and be very clear that what kind of company is this? Am I willing to get along with the people inside the company? Which kind of people do they want on the recruitment? In order to answer these questions, you need to know the information of the company, the target position and your competitors.
From the interviewer’s point of view, they hope the candidates can fully reveal themselves, so that they can discover the most suitable candidate in a short time, because it would be also a great loss for the companies if they missed the suitable candidate for the reason of insufficient preparation by candidates or some other causes which have nothing to do with one’s ability.
When a workman wishes to get his work well done, he must have his tools sharpened first. With sufficient preparation, you will not feel nervous in the interview and have many relevant things to share, such as some little stories which can uncover your competitive advantages and some good discussion topics which can arouse the interviewer’s interest. In this way, the interview will become an opportunity to show your ability.
After sufficient preparation, you should at least make the interviewer recognize that:
1. Your interest and attention to this position, the company and the industry today and tomorrow.
2. You are capable to make a deep and significant conversation with the interviewer.
3. Your respect to the interviewer and the company.
Interview is a process to seek and to be sought. Employer is looking for a suitable employee and the candidate is looking for a suitable company. From view of sale and marketing, the job-hunting can be regarded as the process of self-selling. To find an ideal buyer, a seller must analyze the market and draw up a marketing plan to effectively achieve the sales target. Job-hunting preparation is the “analysis of market and make a marketing plan” and the information should be known include: what kind of company is this, the target of the position, advantages and disadvantages of candidate.
Interview preparation should include the following aspects:
1. Get to know a company’s recruitment schedule and relevant information of job requirements in time. In the seasons of large-scale recruitment, most of enterprises will publicize their recruitment schedule and candidates should collect relevant information in time to catch every possible opportunity.
2. Even though you know the target enterprises very well, it is better to attend some special job fairs held by the enterprise, in order to collect more information. A company usually puts the company’s culture to its website, but you will know more information from a face-to-face interview.
3. Be very clear what you want to do in the future and your own interests.
In summary, in the process of interview preparation, there must take full consideration from the employer’s and candidate’s point of view. Forecast any possible encountered situation in the interview and make a sufficient preparation, so that you will be the winner of interview.
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