Excel at Graduate Interviews - How to Make the Best Impression with Recruiters

This practical guide is packed with targeted guidance on navigating each aspect of the interview process, from planning for an interview to creating a strong first impression, so that students can approach interviews with confidence. It shows students how to identify their skills and how best to communicate these to employers through hands-on activities which encourage students to practise crafting answers to common questions and create strategies for dealing with difficult ones. It also features a chapter dedicated to telephone, video and Skype interviews, complete with sample questions and preparation checklists. Insights from recruiters and real-life experiences of other candidates demonstrate the dos and don''ts at different stages of the process.This book is ideal for use on personal development and career planning modules, and also for use by students or graduates as a standalone career planning resource.>

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Preparing for the Interview
3. First Impressions
4. Types of Interview Question
5. How to STAR at Competency Questions
6. Types of Interview
7. Interviews for Different Roles
8. Telephone, Skype and Video Interviews
9. The End of the Interview and Afterwards
10. Try a Practice Interview.

About the author

Bruce Woodcock

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Bruce Woodcock
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781137535849
• ISBN: 978-1-137-53584-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Palgrave Career Skills; Career Skills; Palgrave Career Skills; Career Skills
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; B, Personal Development, EDUCATION / Counseling / Career Development, Economics and Finance, Advice on careers and achieving success, Career Skills, Maturation (Psychology)