Assessing your interview performance so that you do even better next time
Q: I have suffered a few setbacks on the job interview front of late. To be honest, I thought I had done a particularly good interview last time out, but I still didn’t get the job. They gave me the usual guff about there being a better candidate, you did well etc., but at this […]
Make them want you with a sparkling presentation
Q: I have been asked to give a ten-minute presentation as the start of the second interview for the job. I have never done anything like this before. It’s an online interview, just to complicate matters. Any tips? (FG, email.) A: The beauty of a presentation as part of a job interview is that it […]
Thinking through your upcoming interview
Building on last week’s column on typical interview queries, here is another set of scenarios I regularly encounter when working with my clients, writes Deirdre May, Career Coach, Slí Nua Careers. Q: When I am being interviewed by multiple interviewers at once, who should I look at when asked a question? A: This question harks […]
Technical questions left me flummoxed
Q: The interview just got away from me. They started off by asking five technical questions. Four of them were on topics that I wouldn’t know just at the drop of a hat, but would figure out on a job very quickly. The fifth one I knew and I blurted out an unconvincing answer. At […]
VIDEO: Does it look bad writing down the question during a job interview?
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VIDEO: What if canvassing would disqualify?
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VIDEO: How to answer if an interviewer only expects closed answers
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VIDEO: How to handle nerves before a job interview
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VIDEO: Interview answer styles
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VIDEO: Recap of the START method
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