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Summary: A successful job interview is usually a result of a well-prepared interviewee and someone who has done research. Practice answering interview questions to ensure a successful job interview with help from a career and job placement specialist in this free video on job interview tips.
Matthew Thomas is a career and job placement specialist in the career services department at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, N.C. He is a 2008 graduate of the University of...read more
"Successful interview is going to come straight from how prepared you are for the interview. If you can--if you can comfortably go into this interview and know what to expect, it's going to be a successful interview. Regarding the questions, and sometimes you will be asked difficult questions, but again there's a wealth of information on the Internet. Lots of sites will provide you with the 10 or 15 most common interview questions, and they're all essentially going to be the same. If you take ten sites and you compare their ten questions to everyone else's ten questions, they're going to be the same ten questions, but they're going to be arranged differently or worded differently. And so practicing those questions with a friend before the interview; practice with someone that possibly has been on the other side of an interview before and knows how interviews are conducted. Practice, as they say, makes perfect, without sounding cliche--but they--it truly does. And that is going to give you a level of confidence where you can go into that interview and you can honestly in your mind think "I'm going to nail this; I'm going to get this job because I know exactly what this person's going to ask me, and I know exactly what I'm going to say and how I'm going to say it." Again, researching the organization, in those answers that you provide to those questions you're going to be able to not only answer those questions, but you're going to be able to tie your characteristics and what you have to bring to the organization to their mission statement or their goals of what they wish to accomplish in their, in the years of their organization. And so all of that together comes back to just simply being prepared, knowing as much as you can about everyone, about the organization, about the questions is going to allow you to just go in and just be a confident person. And that's exactly what hiring managers are looking for; they want somebody that's confident and is capable of doing the job."
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