What Makes for a Good Interview?

It is imperative before the interview you...

• Bring a book with you

• Have answers prepared for questions

• Get ready to be hired on the spot

• Get excited

What you wear for the interview must be what?

• Appropriate, clean and professional

• Baggy, dirty and smelly

• Whatever you want to wear

• Doesn't matter as long as you have a name-badge on so the interviewer will know your name.

Why is it important to look good for the interview?

• So the interviewer knows your fashionable

• So the interviewer fancies you

• It gives the interviewer their first impression of how you present yourself professionally.

• So you get hired on the spot

It's important you are

• Calm and collected during the interview

• Excited and yelling your points during the interview

• Shy and mumbling when you speak during the interview

• Aggressive and assertive during the interview.

Make sure you do not...

• Smile

• Swear

• Shake their hand

• Make eye contact

During the interview your body language is important, therefore you should...

• Slump and slouch

• Sit up right and smile

• Take your shoes off and put them on the chair

• Cross your legs on the chair

It would be good practice to...

• Have a notebook of answers to the questions they will ask open during the interview

• Ask why the company is bothering to interview anyone else

• Ask when you're going to get the job

• Prepare some questions of your own to ask the interviewer

It might be a good idea to...

• Bring extra copies of your resume and qualifications just in case.

• Bring your parents/guardians to back up your claims

• Bring perfume/aftershave into the interview.

• Ask if the interviewer wants gum (their breath stinks!)

They ask you a question you haven't prepared for! What do you do?

• Swear and curse

• Stumble and mumble

• Collect yourself and try your best

• Cry

Which one of these questions would be good to ask at the end of the interview?

• Have you got my references through yet?

• What types of skills is the team missing that you’re looking to fill with a new hire?

• When will I hear from you?

• Did I do well?