4. The Job Interview
Listen, be focused, speak with confidence and display positive attitude.
To help create the best impressions and minimize the difficulties resulting from careless answers, remember these general principles:
- Always great your prospective employer with a smile and handshake and end your interview with a smile, thank-you for their time and handshake
- Listen to the question. Understand exactly what is asked. If you are unsure, ask for clarification.
- Take time to think through all facts which should be used to answer the question.
- Then, use positive information to answer the questions directly and to the point. Discuss only the facts needed to satisfy the question to so that you do not open areas of difficulty. Be truthful, but it is not necessary to offer unsolicited information which could detract from the image you are creating.
- Seek to focus and re-focus attention on your strengths and their related accomplishments. Stress their future use in the position being discussed. Remember that the basic question on the interviewer's minds is: "What can this person do for us?"
