by Ian | 6 Apr, 2016 | General tips
What’s the right amount of time for graduates to spend preparing for interviews? The simple answer is: Enough to ensure that you nail it, of course. Why is it then, that in all my years of interviewing graduates, so many of them have been so badly...
by Ian | 22 Oct, 2015 | General tips
Any interview can be stressful and nerve-wracking, but the panel interview – two or more interviewers attacking you in a pincer movement – has a unique capacity to induce mortal fear into many candidates. Organisations use panel interviews for...
by Ian | 13 Oct, 2015 | Good first impressions, Interview Science
We all understand how important first impressions are, particularly when it comes to starting an interview well. Get off on the wrong foot and it will be an uphill challenge to get that job offer. Start well on the other hand, and it can be plain sailing. In...
by Ian | 24 Aug, 2015 | Being memorable
I explained in my recent part one article the need to ensure that your interview is memorable, and we ran through the first three elements of my M.E.M.O.R.A.B.L.E acronym : Motivated Energised Mature Optimistic Realistic Articulate Bold Likeable Entertaining So...