How to ace an Interview?

The most crucial step in landing your dream job is to crack the personal interviews. Our objective is to address all the possible questions and probable solutions, to equip you for your dream job. We will address some of the basic tips to ace the interviews and in the future, we will specifically address the interview questions.

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-Review all your suggestions/achievements/initiatives

The first step is to keep all your accomplishments at the top of your mind. So, review everything you have done so far. The next step is to organize your thoughts. For that, remember this format for all your assignments.

Objective-Your Role-Result/Impact-Learnings

In this approach, it will be always easy to speak and express yourself. Secondly, you can segregate your accomplishments into multiple categories such as technical, personality or leadership, community involvement, and contribution. This will help you to connect well with future job roles.

Job description

It’s extremely important to read the job description carefully. If you haven’t understood anything, then seek help at this stage. If you are clear with the job description, then only you can relate your accomplishments with the new role and will justify “how you can contribute to the new firm”. Additionally, you can easily identify the challenges and opportunities for you and prepare accordingly, as these are the common questions which you will receive in the interview.

Research the Company

Do a detailed research about the company, primarily its product or services, recent highlights, values, locations, work culture and the team where you have applied. The best approach is to connect with someone from the firm ad gets the firsthand information. You can always mention this in the interview if you really liked something about the company. This will always create a positive impression and will reflect your excitement for the firm.

Conversation Style

Though it’s a personal interview, you can always make that engaging and make sure it should not end like a monologue. There are a couple of ways to make a conversation interesting and engaging. For example, you can use voice modulation, expressions, taking the right pauses or using the right connectors such as “that’s a great question”, “I am glad you asked me this” etc.

Be a great listener

Don’t jump to answer the question immediately even if you know everything. Be an empathic listener and listen to understand. After that, take a pause for a few seconds, gather your thoughts and then speak. The more you listen actively; the more you will answer calmly and with confidence.

Ask if you haven’t understood anything

There is no problem in asking anything if you haven’t understood anything or maybe you couldn’t listen properly. In most of the cases, you might answer out of context if you will not ask.

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