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Interview Tips

What to wear

As you can imagine, clothes help you make a great first impression, but they shouldn’t speak louder than you do. Dress professionally and let your skills and knowledge make the impression.

Watch Your Body Language

It’s all about confidence. Offer your interviewer a firm, dry handshake and watch your posture. Also, make eye contact and don’t answer questions by looking around the room. It’s also a good idea to use hand gestures in moderation and refrain from fidgeting.

Focus on Your Past Behavior

Your interviewer will be interested in what you’ve done in previous jobs or in school. We want to hear about specific situations. Let us know how you handled them and what results you achieved. Tell us about success stories, but it also doesn’t hurt to include a time things didn’t go quite right, but you still learned from the experience.

Describe Your Qualifications

What makes you unique? Are you the type of person who enjoys working in a certain type of environment? During your interview, your job is to convince us that you have the right attitude, experience, skill set, and qualifications for the position.

"Why Should We Hire You?"

This may seem obvious, but try to answer this question out loud right now. Was your answer confident and concise? Let us know you have been listening to our needs and have what it takes to do the job. Tell us why you’re great!

Tough Questions

Like we said, our interview focus will be on what you have done in previous jobs. You can prepare for the interview by thinking of and perhaps jotting down a list of past accomplishments. Also, think of tough situations you have handled well, and maybe some you didn't handle as well as you could have.

Ask Questions

Surprisingly, most people don't take advantage of the chance to ask questions of their interviewer. This is a missed opportunity to find out information about the position. It is important for you to ask questions -- not just any questions, but those relating to the job, the company and the industry. Go ahead and ask. That’s what we’re here for.

Closing Points

Leave your interviewer with the right picture of you. Think of skills or traits you want remembered after the interview. Also, don’t forget to state your interest in the position. Again; this sounds easy, but remember to act interested and remember to mention the added value you can bring to the job.

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