The employment interview is a crucial communicative experience. The outcome may enhance your career aspirations or simply ensure that your rent gets paid. Either way you often have a lot at stake in an interview situation. To be successful you have to ask yourself these questions
Why do you want the job?
Aside from money, what is your reason for seeking this particular job?
What information can you gather about the Company before the interview?
What homework should you do to indicate that you are seriously interested in the Company?
What working conditions are you willing to accept?
What is the most appropriate apparel for the interview?
Next stop is the actual interview. An interview seldom gets down to business in the initial moments of the interview. There is a brief time for exchanging social talk. This time allows one to relax and to establish a communicative relationship with the interviewer, and assess what approach he may take. He may be relatively informal or totally businesslike. Follow the interviewer’s lead. When s/he is ready to move to more formal questions, the interviewee should be able to shift gear, and begin answering and asking questions. You will be expected to ask questions as well as respond to them. Have a couple of relevant questions ready. Be sensitive to the interviewer’s cues that the session is coming to an end. All your prospective employees out there - we wish you success in your job search, and invite you to join our Club in September to sharpen your communication and interview skills.
Speakeasy Toastmasters are holding their next meeting at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow on Thursday 17th May at 7.5O pm. You are welcome to come as a guest to view for yourself what we have to offer. Guests will not be asked to speak but are welcome to join in our Topics session.
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