by Ian | 6 Sep, 2017 | General tips
Your CV is amongst the most useful weapons you have in your career armoury. Even well into the 21st Century, with video bios, social media profiling and sophisticated automated recruitment processes, the good old fashioned CV remains a critical early window...
by Ian | 21 Jun, 2017 | Answering questions, General tips, Interview Science
As anyone who has interviewed before will agree, a key part of delivering a powerful performance lies in great preparation. The old cliché fail to prepare, prepare to fail exists for a good reason. Having said that, however much preparation we do, there is...
by Ian | 5 May, 2017 | Answering questions, Asking questions, General tips, Handling nerves
Question: What does an interview have in common with a roller coaster ride? Answer: There’s a huge build up of tension and anxiety, your adrenaline starts pumping, you know it’s going to be a bumpy ride with a few twists and turns, you feel like a...
by Ian | 17 Mar, 2017 | Answering questions, General tips, Interview Science
We all know that, for most of us, interviews are not much fun. For some of us, they can feel more like torture. Nerves, stress, pressure – all can go into overdrive when we work ourselves up over an important upcoming interview. As if this isn’t...
by Ian | 27 Jan, 2017 | General tips
Have you ever been in a two-on-one interview, where one of the interviewers just seems hell-bent on making life tough? Picking holes in everything you say, or just seeming to ignore you? This is the classic Good Cop / Bad Cop approach, where the Good Cop is all...
by Ian | 8 Dec, 2016 | General tips, Good first impressions, Interview Science
“Rapport: a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well” If you Google ‘rapport definition’, this is the first answer it comes up with....