Whether you are the most experienced in an interview or the best qualified for the job, most applicants will have to battle in the interviews. Here, we give you some more extra advices to be calmer and to demonstrate yourself, as truly as you are!
- Check both the traffic channel and the weather channel to prevent any delay.
- Arrive earlier than the interview time.
- Control yourself and reduce your stress level.
- Carry a pen and a notebook with you if would be necessary to take extra notes.
- Do not smoke or chew gum.
- Ask the interviewer if it is okay to keep it with you, before the interview starts.
- Greet everybody, even when to those people that will not be your interviewers.
- Give them a firm handshake and a smile.
- Use the formal ways (Mr., Ms. or Mrs.) until the person ask you to call him/her by their names.
- Wait for the interviewer to sit down before seating yourself.
- Maintain good body posture sitting comfortable.
- Keep good eye contact with everybody inside and outside the interviews room.
- Pay attention and listen carefully to the interviewer(s).
- Take short time to think and to response if you have to answer a difficult question.
- Show that you are a person who takes enough time to think about decisions.
- Do not answer a lie, even innocently, to questions you do not know.
- Be enthusiastic to demonstrate your interest in both the job and the company.
- Close the interview with a positive attitude, even if you know you will not be the hired one.
- Indicate you feel you can make a contribution to the organization, if you know the interviewers are happy with your interview.
- Be polite asking about any needed follow-up and when they will contact you for results.
- Thank the interviewers and whole those who are in the room.
- Ask properly for the interviewer's business card.
- Go out of the room showing security.
