Interview Pitfalls: Are you prepared?

Many companies have begun planning their Recruiting budgets & huge manpower requirements are out this year owing to the near non existent hiring last few years. Thinking of changing your job?

Now..
■ How does your cv look? Is it professional? Clean? Cluttered? Ancient?! Well Written..? Highlighting your best aspects & expertise? Is it relevant to the job you are interviewing for? Or are you just following a basic template everyone follows?
In this unpredictable sea of Monsters & Pirates & Gold & Treasure, where will you sail? How will you sail? Because only skill & experience will help you steer clear of Icebergs & sail smoothly away to beautiful destinations.
Let us look at some common problems & important questions, one should not avoid being ready for, in an interview.

■  At HR Interface Corporate Services, we prepare more than 200-250 people per week for interviews, consult them on repairing their cvs, managing job jumps, sabbaticals, breaks, industry changes, helping them project their personalities & profiles in the right light, answering these questions & more with elan & perfection. 

■  We believe the best interview is a smooth interview where the employer feels the positive impact you make on the room & on your resumé. It is questions answered proactively BEFORE they're asked & answered with relevance & proper context AFTER they are asked.

■  We help you work out problems as only we can, after having conducted over 30,000+ interviews across all industries & all levels.

Pre Interview Grooming Services By Us Include:
■ Helping you work out Career Transitions
■ Handling Job Jumps
■ Industry / Functional Area Changes
■ Career Scripting & Planning - Long term
■ Salary Negotiation Tips
■ Whether or not to apply for a Particular Job or industry
■ Aligning Your cv & Your Jobs Perfectly
■ Repairing of Cvs Spoilt by sporadic jumps & bad decisions by consulting you on your next move
■ Cv writing
■ From Graduate/PG Freshers to CEO/CFO/CXO Level pre interview grooming services personally by us.

Also, To give you a very good idea of why you should come to us for Pre Interview Grooming [pls write to interviewgrooming.hrinterface@gmail.com to know our offerings & charges] Pls read this article, the link to which I have mentioned below that I wrote not a very long time ago.
It will bring to the table the many, many unidentified errors/issues/disconnects lurking in your cv, in your interview & more so follow you through all interviews you give. I help you up your chances of success, by helping you polish your cv, your interview experience & your career view overall.
Pls find the blog post on
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■ Are you thoroughly prepared to give (successful) interviews?

■ Have you got disastrous job jumps & gaps on your cv that you do not know how to handle or express?

■ Unsure of whether you should move from your current company?

■ Don't know how to return to work after a long sabbatical?

■ Confused about what academic courses you should do to complement your work?

■ Do some interview questions leave you stumped & speechless?

■ Have you planned your next 5 years, work wise?

■ Do you randomly job hop? Taking up a job opening that randomly comes to you? 

■ Could you have ignored a winning job opportunity just because you didn't plan your career well?

 ....& about a thousand other questions.

The Interview process is one which needs to be approached with a method that is almost scientific, logical, methodical with a wee bit of Human Intuition / Intervention thrown in for good measure. The process has evolved, & so have Interviewers, along with the parameters which decide your selection, factors influencing Likeability, Job-worthiness, evolving skillsets, desirability of certain backgrounds as also ofcourse..the rejection parameters! What was seen as acceptable yesterday, may be unacceptable today, One company might see your blogging habit as a threat to company confidentiality, another might see it as a must have attribute. Some jobs prefer men, some prefer women, some have age limitations, Some don't prefer hiring freshers, while another hires freshers only!

1> Tell us about yourself.
2> Why have you decided to interview for a job at our company? 
3> Why do you want to quit your current company?
4> Why did you quit your last 2 employers?
5> Is bad health an issue?
6> Why were you on a Sabbatical?
7> Are you persuing any education at the moment?
8> Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
9> You have worked in a different industry that ours, how do you expect to fit in?
10> What if you don't get this job?
11> What does your routine day look like?
12> What do you do on weekends?
13> What was the last challenging problem you faced at your current employer's place & how did you handle it?
14> How do you fit into the role you are interviewing for?
15> Would you work for your ex-employer again? If no, why?
16> Would your ex-employer hire you again? If no, why?
17> Having a family business, why do you want to work elsewhere?
18> Do you have plans to marry/have kids in the near future?
19> Where else have you applied for interviews?
20> Why did you leave your last employer without a job in hand?
21> Why have you changed your industry?
22> Why did you do that particular course?
23> Are you open to working abroad? 
24> Are you open to travelling?
25> Are you open to working weekends?
26> What are your hobbies?
27> Do you like to travel?
28> Do you like reading? What was the last book you read? What did you think of it?
29> Who is our Founder? When were we founded?
30> What latest news about us have you read?
31> Name 3 aspects of yourself you'd like work on.
32> Do you have any further study plans?
33> What are some brands in our industry that you admire?
34> If you were sitting in my chair, what question would you ask yourself as an interviewer to an interviewee?
35> What was the last movie you watched?
36> What is your favourite movie/book?

...& many more questions unique to each person's cv, experience, background & current situation.

■ Personal Etiquette & Grooming
■ Pre Interview Preparation & Mock Interviews for full prep.

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