Interview Coaching Dublin – Advice about interview preparation – Ireland
Friday, March 28th, 2008
I guess to purpose of this post is to highlight that interviews can be more complex and varied than you may think. For this reason it is essential that you prepare properly and that you get as much information about the interview process as possible. This information combined with preparation will help improve your confidence and your performance which will increase your interview to job offer ratio.
Different types of Interviews – There are a wide variety of possible interview scenarios that you can face when notified that you have been called for interview. Some of these types of interview include:
Traditional Interviews
Competency / Behavioural Interviews
Panel Interviews
Phone Interviews
Different types of Assessments – To confuse things more many organisations are combining interviews with objective assessments in the form of psychometric testing and assessment. Some of these include:
Personality Questionnaires
Ability Tests
Aptitude Tests
Skills Tests
Assessment Centres
Different types of interviewer and interviewer styles – Finally you can face different types of interviewers who use a different style. It will help you to understand these different styles but more importantly have a strategy to cope with the different styles. Six of the possible interview styles include:
Absentee Interviewer
Inquisitor Interviewer
Buddy Interviewer
Laser Beam Interviewer
Shotgun Interviewer
Silver Bullet Interviewer
In later posts we will provide information on the above interviews, assessments, interviewer styles and more importantly how you can prepare. If you would like more information about the different types of interviewers visit this post.
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