To get any kinds of offer, you have to pass the interview, your career may be determined the interviewing that only lasts several minutes. When you receive the notice of interviewing from the company, what should you do? We might as well learn some suggestions from liu，the headhunter.
1. When you are on the phone from the company, you should ask them the name of the company, the position you are gonna get, the interview place(the driving or bus route included),the time and some basic information. You’d better ask the website, the name of the person who notices you and the position of your interviewer by the way. At last, don’t forget to give a thanks to the person who notices you. You should arrive there on time, because usually you are not the only person to be interviewed, if you miss the chance, you will lose it.
2. Surfing the Internet to know the background of the company and some information of Employment Objective
3. The background of the company consists of the sector the company belongs to, the company’s products , projects, historical evolution, organization structure, CorporateCulture, salary level, the stability of employees, the key events happened before and so on. The wilder and deeper you know, the bigger your chances to succeed will be. Meanwhile, it’s helpful to judge the company.(It’s a two-way choice between the company and talents)
4. Employment Objective consists of the name of the Employment Objective, job duties and requirements, which is very important because the same position in different companies has different requirements. The more you know, the righter your direction of interviewing will be.
5. If there are anyone among your friends and relatives or networking who are familiar with the company, his or her feelings or suggestions will definitely be very important reference values. If you have acquaintances there(no matter direct or indirect),make good use of them, in this way, you will have the priority when your competitors and you have at least the same qualifications. “acquaintances makes things easy” is a theory that valid everywhere.
6. You’d better record the name of the corporate and position, where you sent your resume, take simple interviewing on which company’s job fair, who was the interviewer, what’s the content of it, the salary level you have asked and so on. All of the above is supposed to be reviewed when you get interviewing notice.
7. If the position you want is executives, being familiar with your boss’ background, personalities and styles will be helpful(generally, the executives are interviewed by the boss at last).When the author interviewed headhunters’ candidates, there are many people inquiring the age, sex ,hometown, style, even the growing background of the boss.
8. Learn some practical interview skills. The key is how you introduce yourself and how you show your strengths and advantages, which will do you a favor to give the interviewer a excuse to convince himself that you are the person they want. Get prepared for some common questions in the interview. A simulative interview is a good choice: find a manager or HR among your friends and relatives as your judge, who can give some suggestions and help you find your problems.
It’s important to emphasize that an introduce which is concise and underlines your strengths really counts.
9. In addition to some general requirements on profession, experience and dedication to work, different kinds of positions have different focus .For instant, marketing job emphasizes the ability of communication and customer development, and the cleverness; Accounting job emphasizes preciseness and being principled; Technique research and development emphasizes logicality and profession; Planner or creative job emphasizes the ability of planning and the divergence of thoughts; Engineering job emphasizes execution and practical working style; HR emphasizes the ability of affinity, communication and the art of push strategy; Administrative service emphasizes serviceability, passion and carefulness; middle-level manager or executives ‘ abilities emphasizes higher horizons, leadership, coordination and integration.
10. Different corporates have different cultures and different soft emphasizes on talents, some emphasize the ability to communicate and coordinate, some emphasize execution，some emphasize teamwork and the concept of profession. Although everybody’s style has been inflexible basically, it’s better to behave yourself in the direction they prefer. After the author get a headhunter’s list, in addition to know company ‘s background， responsibilities and requirements of the position， headhunters also need to know the corporate culture（including the explicit and the inexplicit，the written and the unwritten），the boss‘ styles and backgrounds，soft requirements on talents and the way the company works.
11. Prepare a decent professional uniform(some positions on IT or creative jobs may not have strict requirements),doing up your hair, polishing your shoes, mild perfume is okay, prepare some chewing gums if you have halitosis and you’d better look into the mirror before you set out.
12. Estimate the time on the road, and sparing some time for emergency is a must. You cannot be late, also not be too early. You’d better enter the place 5-10minutes before. If you are late because of traffic jam or some other reasons, call the company for understanding.
13. You should be confident and always keep the words in mind that being confident may not help you succeed, but lack of confidence will definitely make you fail. Being calm, positive, mature and relaxed(showing yourself completely needs your relaxed attitude).You should try to make the others feel that you are talented, honest and have dedication to work. After all, nobody likes the people who are too talented to make other people feel secured.
14. If you think it’s inappropriate or unnecessary for you to go to the interview after taking all the factors into account , quitting the interview is also a choice. But you should notify the corporate about it, it’s a basic professional quality.