Block 4. Interview

OK, so you have succeeded in elbowing the vast majority of your competitors for the post out of your way – you are no longer up against 300, but against four or five…. But there’s only one ‘winner’ and there is no silver medal compensation for coming second, so you have to work, work and work to prepare for interview.

I’m going to be interviewed…. argh!

Well, it was predictable, right?  You knew it was coming.

So how are we going to do it?

• You will bring to class your:
  • job advert/offer
  • Job Description and
  • Person Specification
  • CV
  • covering letter
• We will work in teams of three and rotate the roles
  • Interviewer
  • interviewee
  • ‘rapporteur’
• You pass your job details plus CV and covering letter to your ‘interviewer’, who, after sufficient time to read the material, will interview you for  10 minutes. The rapporteur listens and watches and will give you AND the interviewer feedback relating his/her impressions of things that went well and things that perhaps need to be improved for next time.    You will receive a mark from me (with feedback) for each of the roles you play.

Interviewing and being interviewed.

Well, it’s only fair I give you some background and some tips, so here they are!

Perhaps the best compiliation of Interview tips I know of which exists in a simple list form is James Clear’s:

99 Interview Tips That Will Actually Help You Get a Job

OK, 99 is a whole load of tips, but most of them are succinct and, IMHO eminently sensible and positive.  Lets have a look together – you can read them out and I’ll save my voice and listen!