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I Got an Interview!

Congratulations!  You've landed an interview.  Now, what does it take to land the job?  On these pages you will learn the techniques for surviving a job interview and turning it to your advantage so that they "can't live without you".


Interview Tips

How should you stand?  How should you shake hands?  What is considered polite?  What is considered impolite?  It took you months of planning and a hundred resumes to get this one, high-powered interview - what do you do now?  Click on the link here and follow the tips to find out.
More Interview Preparation Tips
More Phone Interview Tips

Sample Questions

Are you ready for a question like, "Tell me, what is your greatest weakness?"  How about a question like, "Why should we hire you over the other candidates?"  The answers to these kinds of questions can make or break an interview.  Be ready!  Click here and prepare!

Action Words

When you sit down to an interview, you not only need to say the right things at the right times, and act the right way at the right moment, but you need to "talk the talk and walk the walk".  Action words will help you develop the right vocabulary and jargon for the professional community that you want to be a part of.  As we say, if you want the job, you have to be big enough to "wear the hat".

Practice Activities

Okay, now let's try some practice interviews.  Here are some good resources for preparing for the interview before you even step foot into the H.R. manager's office.  Try some of the interviews that relate to your career.

 

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