How to Handle Interview Successfully
The most essential aspect to beat after
your academic and professional qualification is an interview. We all focus on
our educational development like academic credentials and percentages and are
least tentative on focusing ourselves on winning the interview. With the
emerging global change, interviews have also taking gigantic leap from the old
traditional conservatoire to the recent magnetite global demand. Today
Interview is an exhibition of candidate's talent. It's a process through
an employer gets to know, how to bridge a gap between employment:
Demand and Supply. Modern interviews are not only stress to the candidates, but
also equal stress to the employers. For the candidate the stress is to get the
right job, and on the other the stress is to get the right candidate.
What is an Interview?
"Interview is an art of expressing
self, where an interviewee is a seller and an interviewer is a buyer". An
interview is nothing but bringing our internal knowledge outside and make other
feel comfortable listening to it. It is nothing but an interaction between the
sender (interviewee) and the receiver (interviewer). In the simplest word
interview can be compared with the theory of the guest and the host
relationship. Man being supreme creation of god tends to learn by experience;
the same is with the interview, we should never take interview as a negative
note rather it's a positive gesture to conquer next step with more
perfection and maturity; where there are less chances of failure than the first.
Our practice can provide us a mature platform from where we can make difference
in the qualitative approach of getting selected or rejected. This art
of learning could be beautified through preparation and practice, as it is well
said, "Practice makes man perfect". To compete an
interview with the flying colors the candidate need to learn with the same
theory as he used to learn in his kindergarten stage, trail and error
technique. As when we learn bicycle: The more we fall the better we
grip, and one day we paddle it with even leaving both the hands. Major
interviews speak the success story of the deserving candidate in just five
minutes. As the hiring managers don't want to hire the most qualified person
they also want to hire the person whom they like most to work with. It's very
easy to get to an interview but it is harder to turn an interview to a job.
Interview can be successfully beaten by the magical charm of communication
skills, where verbal and non-verbal communication plays a vital role.
Articulation, phonetics and soft skills also multiply candidate's success
change during the interview process.
Interview Selling Skills
"Selling is an art and for that we
need to be an artist." The most important aspect to master in selling skills is to master
on two major aspects; first is the product and the second is service. In order
to bridge the gap between product and service we need to believe in self, as it
is well said, "Self Confidence is the key of all locks." Confident
person can chase his hardship much smoothly than the one who is crippled with
diffidence.
Six Sigma's for Interview Success:
As it is said that interview is an
interaction, but this interaction can easily be converted to triumphal victory
by the magical spell of the interviewee, where he mingles his interaction with
the six sigma effects by using his interpersonal skills, team spirit, social
grace, business etiquette, negotiation skills and behavioral trades. Interview
process is the sum totals of six most important skills that makes correlated
bond between Interviewee and Interviewer.
Six- sigma's between Interviewee &
Interviewer
1. Interpersonal Skills
2. Social Grace
3. Behavioral Traits
4. Negotiation Skills
5. Business Etiquette
6. Team Spirit
Among many job aspirants the most
crucial and stressful zone is the interview hall. Although they may have all
required qualifications, experience and well framed records, yet they may lose
the battle to conquer to the other, who are well versed and confident
at the time of interaction and can answer the questions in the most acceptable
way keeping the track of their interpersonal, social, as well as their
behavioral skills. He needs to also sell his business acumen, team spirit and
attitude at the time of interaction. These are really the basic component that
makes a candidate perfect. No matter what your industry or the role is;
effective selling skills are integral to your success.
As it is well said by James Allen: "For
true success ask yourself these four questions:
1. Why?
2. Why not?
3. Why not me?
4. Why not now"?
Kavita Thapliyal
Business Communication and Soft Skills Trainer & Consultant
Web: www.visionsahead.com
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