During the job interview

PUNCTUALITY:

• Arrive early.
• Do not give a negative impression by getting late.
• Be at least 15 minutes before your interview time.
• Utilise those 15 minutes in remembering tips but also relaxing.
• Call as soon as possible, before the scheduled time, if something unexpected happened.
• Ask for another time and opportunity if you could not get interviewed.
• Be apologetic and courteous explaining the trouble reasons that caused your unpunctuality.

GREETING:

• Start your introduction with a memorable greeting.
• Greet everyone you are introduced to, by smiling, making eye contact, shaking hands, and saying their names if it is possible.
• Show genuine smiles, using some teeth maybe.
• Keep in mind to always make eye contact throughout the interview process in order to not create the wrong impression of hiding something or not being honest.
• Be polite and shake hands properly, whether they have extended theirs or not.
• Hold some tissue to wipe your hands unobtrusively before shaking hands.
• Use the same strength of your grip to theirs.
• Say the person’s name loud adding polite phrases and showing that you are paying attention.
• Make a positive first impression.

BODY LANGUAGE:

• Demonstrate confidence and control, just like you would be greeting a good friend.
• Sit comfortably and properly at the moment and place the interviewer(s) indicate.
• Keep a good posture and look attentive.
• Face the person who is asking the question with full eye contact to everyone in the room when you are answering.
• Do not forget to smile.

PERSONALITY:

• Show your personality but do not over do it.
• Match your behaviour to the interviewers.
• Demonstrate sincerity and properly sense of humour if it would be necessary.
• Present yourself as someone who is a pleasure to work with, but at the same time, as a serious professional.
• Do not ever show arrogance.

ANSWERING:

• Provide clear, confident and concrete answers.
• Do not doubt when speaking.
• Use too quiet too hard voice, so that the interviewer does not ask you to repeat your answers.
• Give enough detail and avoid rambling.
• Focus on the answer point; most interviews use a limit time to 20 minutes or less.
• Ask for giving more details to the interviewers, if it would be necessary.

QUESTIONING:

• Use those questions you have been preparing before the interview.
• Clear your doubts up about job position, hiring process, etc.
• Comment finally about how glad you would be if they give you the opportunity.

EXIT:

• Pay attention when the interview is over.
• Dispense your letters of recommendation and any other relevant document.
• Thank the interviewers and shake their hands again.
• Use their names if you remember them.

YOURSELF:

• Focus on the product (yourself) making understand the interviewer what you have to offer.
• Do not wait for the interviewer to make whole the questions.
• Mention your best skills and qualities, after and/or during you are answering to a question.
• Get your entrance based on an agenda.
• Have cleared your key selling points thinking when and how to get them during the interview.
• Control the content of the interview allowing the interviewers to control the process.
• Use relevant experiences when giving answers with examples.

YOUR AUDIENCE:

• Know about the company and its needs as much as you can.
• Research carefully the company.
• Look for your relevant and important information that the company would be interested on.

YOUR ABILITIES:

• Show enthusiasm and interest are vital for sitting one step closer to the job position.
• Remember to present those jobs that you are truly interested on.
• Focus on your deeper interests in order to be truly excited about the job and interview.

YOUR ATTENTION:

• Pay attention to the interviewer(s) so that they do not imagine you cannot listen well to future co-workers and managers.
• Pause the interview and clarify your doubts before you could not remember them later.
• Do not be afraid to ask the interviewer to restate the question.
• Act normally even when the interviewers made you a stumped question.

YOUR DIFFERENCES:

• Anticipate your answers setting yourself apart from other applicants.
• Demonstrate qualities describing them in detail.
• Use public speaking principles, including tone variance, voice tempo, nervous into enthusiasm, eye contact, etc.
• Try to get the interviewer's energy level.