20 Top Tips
Successful Interview Techniques
- What is your Unique Selling Point (USP)?
- Learn a sixty‐second commercial
- Take a copy of your CV
- Smile as you meet each person
- Make eye contact as you are introduced
- Keep open Body Language (see reading list)
- Feedback your local research
- Show your positive side
- Stand up for yourself if challenged
- Use positive, action words
- Make eye contact with each questioner
- Ask if you can’t see what they’re asking
- Keep positive if it seems to be going badly
- Rehearse in front of a dummy panel
- Get the dummy panel to ask you tough questions
- Ask for feedback if you don’t get the job
- Say what you achieved, not what you did
- Know what items are on the political agenda
- Your management skills are important
- Thank the panel at the end