Top five tips to get succeed in an Interview

• Before attending an interview, research about the details of company and about job designation, salary and job description. This will help to get idea about the organization. And also be prepared to ask questions about the company to the interviewer.
• A proper dressing will create good impression. So keep the interview clothes ironed, clean and neat. Must wear dark colored professional shoes with clean and well polished. Use portfolio for carrying resumes. Always maintain good outlook performances.
• At first make sure the correct directions of the company. Don’t go to interview very early because it may cause many confusions. Just go to interview before 15 minutes of the appointed time. But at the same time don’t go late to an interview it will create a bad impression.
• Enter the interview hall with positive thoughts. Always have eye to eye contact. Speak freely and clearly about the skills and experiences. In any case don’t show any afraid on the face. Must have good smiling face. Try to answers the questions within few seconds.
• Then the interview will end up within few minutes in a waiting room. Don’t be bored and sloppy. Sit steady and take some notes about the interview and try to look busy. Be ready and frank to shake hands when the interviewer comes to talk. Be confident.

Follow the above five steps that will surely help to get selected in an interview. But to all of them the interview does not end with good result. So, don’t get upset on the failure. It will help to learn how to present and concentrate on the next time in an interview and it will also increase the experience.

PURPOSES OR OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING

• To increase productivity
• To help one company to fulfill all its future personnel needs
• To improve the organizational climate
• To reduce supervision
• To improve the quality
• To improve safety and health
• To prevent obsolescence
• To develop personal growth

AREAS OF TRAINING

General management: Training for planning, organizing, decision making and controlling.

People management: interpretation of company policy and negotiated agreements, communication, motivations, dealing with informal organizations, leadership, maintenance of safety and discipline, grievance handling and labor relations.

Production management: ordering supplies, maintaining inventories, controlling costs and similar materials and process management responsibilities

TRAINING METHODS

Content techniques: Designed to provide substantive knowledge or information on a cognitive level. Examples are lecturing, audiovisual medic and auto-instructional methods.

Process techniques: Designed to change attitudes develop self-awareness, and improve interpersonal skills, for example, role playing, sensitivity training, behavior modification and transactional analysis.

Mixed techniques: Training methods that have both information – transmitting function and an attitude change function. Examples are conference discussion, case study and on-the-job training.

Apprenticeship: The fields in which apprenticeship training is offered is numerous and range from the jobs of draughts man, mechanist, painter’s tool-makes, designers, mechanics, carpenters, weavers, fitters and electricians.

Training is a process of learning a sequence of programmed behavior. Training increases productivity and improves quality. It improves the organizational climate and prevents obsolescence. It ensures personal growth of employees.

1)      Constructive Thinking – The key to open doors for you:

It’s really hard not to get a job, and you desperately are in need to build a career. Think! You have a degree, a qualification that has given you some knowledge, regardless of how marketable it is but for sure all the subjects and courses you have gone through in your degree mean something to many employers out here or abroad. Think so hard and surf the net to get ideas to hone your skills according to your qualifications. When you have ideas you are not lost in the game.

2)      Respect your Interests and develop passion:

Pick a job that suits closely with your interest and knowledge. Think if you like to work in an office environment? Or a travelling environment. Whatever you select, list out the industry that will suit your expectations and needs. No job is petite if you have the appetite to know which job suits you? Interest and passion can help you find solution for your quest.

3)      Begin Your Career Someplace:

You are lucky enough if you have got the job that suits your criteria’s. But still there are many who don’t find jobs that match their list. They start looking for simple and effortless ways. Remember there is no cut short way for finding which job suits you. In reality it’s good to fetch a job at someplace even if it doesn’t match with your criteria. Swallow your ego and go ahead in your search for which job suits you? Who knows – May be this job will suit your every requirement sooner.

4)      Go ahead- It’s all a Journey :

There are always many lessons to be learnt.  Those careers that appear scrabbling around you are really opportunities. We need to be aware of them and learn from it. Who knows a software engineer qualified person may shine well in the auditing field. Love the job you got and as you move ahead you will know people and requirements and also your strengths,interests etc and move ahead to find more and more solution for the question Which job suits you?

Right Approach and Attitude: First Step to Success

With the right attitude and approach, one can break heavy rocks in to tiny pieces of stones. Right and positive attitude at the right time wins. How to get the right attitude? Right attitude can be achieved by getting guidance from the right people.

Yes! First get peer guidance and decide on your career path that suits very well to your abilities. Then get the knowledge of all the career options in your chosen career path and select the right person in the particular field and get the guidance from them on the future outlook of your decision.

 If you don’t have any one to help on this opt for career counselors who can provide you lots of insights in making the choice of your career.Once the choice of career and career path is done, it’s pretty easy to select the employer and develop your knowledge according to the employer requirements and achieve your goal making yourself through the interview by your outstanding performance.

For more on career tips read articles in the Career Development Section of this website.

Essentials Before attending the Interview:

1)      Make yourself familiar about  the basic and most common interview questions such as “tell me about yourself”, and all  the dozy questions like “ whats your worst quality?”. The apt way to answer these questions are to make  an assessment of your skills and your past career path with perspective to the  current position for which you are interviewed.

2)      Think and be prepared about atleast  2 to 5 business accomplishments and practice tersely communicating the challenges and outcomes of each accomplishments.

3)      Prepare  some appropriate questions that you would think would be asked in the interview by doing a brief analysis of the company and the market in which it operates.

On the Interview day:

1)      Dress yourself in neat, formal attire and arrive in time.

2)      Carry a good briefcase with all your detailed certificates and appreciations.

3)      Begin with a strong handshake and speak confidently even if you feel nervous.

4)      Refrain from talking continuously without giving space to listen the interviewers words.

5)      Avoid saying negative things.

6)      Pay attention to all gestures or the non verbal signals of both the interviewer and yourself.

7)      Do take a moment to think if you don’t know any answer spontaneously.

8)      Never bring the topic of  money  by yourself. Let it be the interviewer who talks of it first.

Finally,

After the Interview is Over:

Say thank you  or give them any mementos  meaning  “Thank You” and  do a follow up check with the HR  for the status of your offer.