Interview Tips

Interview Tips

An interview is an opportunity, not a brick wall. It’s your chance to impress an employer and get your hands on the job you deserve. Check out our interview tips and the next time you’re sitting in front of an interview panel, you’ll be confident, prepared and 100% ready to go.

Interview Questions

If you’ve landed a job interview, it certainly doesn’t hurt to be prepared for the kind of questions they might throw your way. The trick is not to bore them to tears with a glut of ...

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Interview Preparation

Here are our tips on how to prepare for an interview and not be a quivering, nervous wreck on the day: 1. Don’t be afraid to ring up and ask about your interview. Find out whether i...

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What to Wear for an Interview

Ah, the sartorial crisis: its interview day and you’re in your underwear staring at your wardrobe in panic. As more and more offices adopt relaxed dress codes, it makes it a whole lot more...

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Interview Body Language

It’s not just what you say in an interview that counts; how you present yourself is also very important. You need to have the correct body language to make sure you come across in the most...

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Interview Nerves

Interviews are enough to turn anyone into a quivering wreck. Unfortunately though, appearing nervous won't work to your advantage. In fact, it might put the employer off. It's so importa...

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Interview Techniques

Nailing a job interview can be a tricky art to master, but it’s not impossible. Really, all you need is to pick up a few techniques and you should be on your way to interview success. We&r...

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Face-to-face Interviews

When you start applying for graduate jobs, you’ll quickly realise there are more types of interview than you can shake your beleaguered CV at. Telephone interviews, Skype interviews, group...

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Skype Interviews

There’s no question about it: interviews on Skype can be, well, a bit awkward. Not only can you see yourself and the other person, but you have technological peculiarities to contend with....

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Telephone Interviews

Lady Gaga’s song ‘Telephone’ tells us, if anything, exactly how not to behave during a telephone interview: “I have got no service/ In the club, you see, see/ Wha-Wha-Wha...

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Technical Interview

The prospect of a technical interview can leave the best of us trembling with nerves. The internet doesn’t help: type “technical interview” into a search engine and you’l...

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Interview Mistakes

I often get asked what to do in interviews, but I think a good place to start is to look at what NOT to do. I’m going to avoid the obvious ones, such as dress appropriately and be on ti...

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Panel Interview

There’s no need to get your knickers in a twist: panel interviews aren’t that much different from normal interviews. Yes, it might be a bit daunting when you walk into the interview ...

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Group Interview

Group interviews are used by a whole host of employers, from investment banks and recruitment companies to retailers and advertising agencies. They might be the first stage of the recruitment pr...

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Second Interview

So you’ve been summoned to a second interview. The good news is that they’re pretty impressed with you already. In fact, you can allow yourself a little bit of smugness. You’re...

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Interview Feedback

After the stress of an interview, the last thing you might want to do is ask for feedback. You already know it went really well or really badly, so why should you get interview feedback? Sometim...

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Follow-up Email: After Interview

Sending off a short and sweet email thanking your interviewer for the interview requires little effort from your part and, whilst it won’t make the interviewer turn round and go: “Bl...

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Job Rejection Letter

In this climate, rejecting a job might seem like a bit of a luxury, but there may well be a time when you’ll decide to reject a job offer. So how do you go about doing it? A job rejection ...

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Job Acceptance Letter

Hooray! You’ve been offered a job. But before you crack open the party poppers/champagne and dance around your living room, you’ve got to pen (or more likely type) that job acceptanc...

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Competency Based Interview Questions

Competency-based interview questions target a particular skill or competency. They are used by employers to suss out whether or not you have the required skills for the job role. Usually, the qu...

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Interview Presentation

An interview presentation is a chance to show a company what you can do. Usually, the interview presentation will focus on one of the tasks that you’ll be required to perform as part of th...

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