GETTING READY FOR THAT JOB INTERVIEW
Guiding Principles in order to be successful at your next job interview and to get the job.
Get your wardrobe in order and give yourself more travel time than you think you might need. Its always better to be an early bird at an interview than a late loser.
Visualize the interview.
Picture yourself as poised, confident, articulate.
Make a list of your strengths and weakness
and practice how you will articulate them.
Write out answers to the questions you don’t want to be asked. It will help alleviate your anxiety.
Besides the above, the above the following will help
First, Make the “Fit Test“: Be absolutely clear for yourself that the role and company you´d like to apply for really fits with your skills, career track, professional
and personal objectives, beliefs and experiences.
Research the Target Company: To be well prepared is half the victory. Still, I´m surprised how many candidates would arrive at interviews, even for senior
level positions, and not having studied our values, mission statement, leadership principles, products, etc.
Know Your interviewer(s): Today it´s easier than ever to collect information about your interviewers. Spend
40-50 minutes on Google, Linkedin, etc. and you should be clear about titles, roles, careers, etc. of all the people who´ll interview you. If not, ask the person
who´s responsible of organizing the interviews and/or with whom you´re in contact to provide you some
background information about the people you´ll meet.
Addressing interviewers with their names and implicitly
(or explicitly without exaggerating) showing them that you know (a little bit) about their careers,
achievements, etc. is not only polite, but also shows respect and interest. You´d be surprised to hear how
negatively it is perceived by many interviewers, if you do not know these things.
Arrive On-Time and Be Professionaly Focused: It's never a good start, if a candidate arrives late based on her
or his own fault (Not having taken into consideration heavy traffic at a
certain time of the day, not having found the right address etc.).It goes
without saying that a fresh mind is a much more focused and a much more confident one.
Adjust Your Appearance, Style and Tone: Imagine you are wearing a short-sleeved shirt, no tie and a casual
pair of trousers when meeting for a job interview with one of the country's top Banks?
Anticipate Questions and Possible Areas of Concern:
Good interviewers will try to imagine you being on the role they´re interviewing for. How do they do it? Pretty easy! They try to match your characteristics, your
experiences, examples given by you, the way you talk and behave with their culture, their business and
management principles, and with the requirements of
the role they´re recruiting for.
Watch out for the concluding part. CIB
Get your wardrobe in order and give yourself more travel time than you think you might need. Its always better to be an early bird at an interview than a late loser.
Visualize the interview.
Picture yourself as poised, confident, articulate.
Make a list of your strengths and weakness
and practice how you will articulate them.
Write out answers to the questions you don’t want to be asked. It will help alleviate your anxiety.
Besides the above, the above the following will help
First, Make the “Fit Test“: Be absolutely clear for yourself that the role and company you´d like to apply for really fits with your skills, career track, professional
and personal objectives, beliefs and experiences.
Research the Target Company: To be well prepared is half the victory. Still, I´m surprised how many candidates would arrive at interviews, even for senior
level positions, and not having studied our values, mission statement, leadership principles, products, etc.
Know Your interviewer(s): Today it´s easier than ever to collect information about your interviewers. Spend
40-50 minutes on Google, Linkedin, etc. and you should be clear about titles, roles, careers, etc. of all the people who´ll interview you. If not, ask the person
who´s responsible of organizing the interviews and/or with whom you´re in contact to provide you some
background information about the people you´ll meet.
Addressing interviewers with their names and implicitly
(or explicitly without exaggerating) showing them that you know (a little bit) about their careers,
achievements, etc. is not only polite, but also shows respect and interest. You´d be surprised to hear how
negatively it is perceived by many interviewers, if you do not know these things.
Arrive On-Time and Be Professionaly Focused: It's never a good start, if a candidate arrives late based on her
or his own fault (Not having taken into consideration heavy traffic at a
certain time of the day, not having found the right address etc.).It goes
without saying that a fresh mind is a much more focused and a much more confident one.
Adjust Your Appearance, Style and Tone: Imagine you are wearing a short-sleeved shirt, no tie and a casual
pair of trousers when meeting for a job interview with one of the country's top Banks?
Anticipate Questions and Possible Areas of Concern:
Good interviewers will try to imagine you being on the role they´re interviewing for. How do they do it? Pretty easy! They try to match your characteristics, your
experiences, examples given by you, the way you talk and behave with their culture, their business and
management principles, and with the requirements of
the role they´re recruiting for.
Watch out for the concluding part. CIB
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