Succeed in the interview.
20 March 2014
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This step is the successful culmination of the first action you took, sending your letter and CV. You therefore have an appointment with the recruiter. To help you approach this very important moment, here are a few tips:
Be aware that the recruiter is delighted to meet you. They have a problem to solve which is the recruitment of a good intern and their hope is that you are the right candidate, the one they can recruit. You are therefore in a strong position. They are obliged to meet several candidates, but if they can avoid too many appointments and you are the right person for the job, they won't look any further. So be calm and ready to approach this first interview with confidence.
An interview is prepared in two ways:
Learning about the company, the job and its environment. Obtain the presentation brochures, consult the website, ask your friends who work in the same sector, try to understand as well as possible what the company does, what its products are. This will allow you to show your strong motivation in the interview.
Implementing your personal concentration. Just as an athlete concentrates before the effort, you must prepare calmly for your appointment. The best way to be ready is to focus on knowing the company and its products. The better you know the company, the more confident you will be. However, be careful not to recite the brochures in the interview.
The day of the appointment arrives. Have a neat presentation, be on time, neither too early nor too late. These are small signs which, put together, give an overall impression of the candidate.
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Don't be too intimidated, nor too comfortable. Be yourself. You should know that a recruiter is able to quickly decipher the main traits of your personality, whatever your efforts to present yourself differently from who you are.
Be respectful of a few basic rules of etiquette:
--wait to sit down until your interviewer invites you;
- don't move your chair close to their desk to slump down;
- don't try to read upside down what they are writing;
- don't take the initiative of the interview, unless they invite you to;
- don't show exaggerated signs of nervousness (hands fidgeting, feet constantly moving, etc.);
- don't look at your watch;
- make an effort to synthesize: don't tell your life story for hours. Know how to get to the essential while being clear and explicit. Don't think that all this is unimportant. The person recruiting receives many candidates and wants to get to the essentials. They can quickly get annoyed. They attach a lot of importance to these little things that can annoy them and risk costing you your place for an internship.
SUBSTANCE
You must know how to present yourself, here are a few tips:
- be concise in your answers. Nothing is more tedious for a recruiter than listening to a candidate who talks too much. Know how to stop to listen
- ask questions, don't be apathetic. It is just as tedious to have a candidate who says nothing, shows no interest while swearing that the internship interests them greatly
- show enthusiasm. Understand that the recruiter or department head is proud of their company and their job and that they can only be delighted to feel you enthusiastic and responsive
- don't try to be too clever by displaying offbeat humor
- don't bluff, it always shows
- be convincing in what you say.
The recruiter may be more or less friendly, more or less directive, they may start the interview with silence (it's rare but unpleasant), they may ask you to introduce yourself. More rarely, they will start by presenting the company and the internship, which is more comfortable for you because it is more convivial.
Understand well, as we indicated above, that you are in a strong position. You may find this strange, but the paradox is only apparent: it is the recruiter who is courting you since they offered you an appointment. So it's up to you to take advantage of this advantage from the start.
Don't let yourself be destabilized by too much coldness or dryness in the contact. This is often just a way of showing their power, especially with a young recruiter who is just as uncomfortable as you are. Nevertheless, it is they who will decide whether or not to follow up on your application after the interview.
It is therefore important to get a good measure of this interlocutor, not to get angry or let yourself be destabilized. Note that the interview will be different depending on whether you are received by a specialist from the recruitment department or directly by the head of the department who is looking for an intern. In the first case, it will be more "psychological" and personality-oriented, in the second it will be more focused on your technical skills and your ability to integrate into the department.
However, regardless of your interlocutor, the most important thing to convey is your motivation. This is the key word, the sesame to your entry into the company, the most sought-after quality. It's not the only one, but on its own, it can change everything.
Even if you don't have all the qualities required for the position, genuine motivation intelligently displayed, that is to say without overdoing it but manifested in an authentic way, by arguing it with precise facts can be decisive for your application.
Remember that the goal of the recruiter is not to judge you as an individual but to know if your profile, personal and professional, corresponds well to the needs of the internship to be filled.
Your goal is to be chosen. If you approach interviews with this goal, you have a good chance of succeeding. Obviously, the match between your profile and the company's needs is crucial. But if it exists, you have every chance of being selected if you follow our advice to the letter. Many candidates correspond on paper to the internship to be filled, but only one will be selected: the one who has shown the most motivation and enthusiasm.
Kapstages.com
Posted on March 20, 2014.
Be aware that the recruiter is delighted to meet you. They have a problem to solve which is the recruitment of a good intern and their hope is that you are the right candidate, the one they can recruit. You are therefore in a strong position. They are obliged to meet several candidates, but if they can avoid too many appointments and you are the right person for the job, they won't look any further. So be calm and ready to approach this first interview with confidence.
An interview is prepared in two ways:
Learning about the company, the job and its environment. Obtain the presentation brochures, consult the website, ask your friends who work in the same sector, try to understand as well as possible what the company does, what its products are. This will allow you to show your strong motivation in the interview.
Implementing your personal concentration. Just as an athlete concentrates before the effort, you must prepare calmly for your appointment. The best way to be ready is to focus on knowing the company and its products. The better you know the company, the more confident you will be. However, be careful not to recite the brochures in the interview.
The day of the appointment arrives. Have a neat presentation, be on time, neither too early nor too late. These are small signs which, put together, give an overall impression of the candidate.
FORM
Don't be too intimidated, nor too comfortable. Be yourself. You should know that a recruiter is able to quickly decipher the main traits of your personality, whatever your efforts to present yourself differently from who you are.
Be respectful of a few basic rules of etiquette:
--wait to sit down until your interviewer invites you;
- don't move your chair close to their desk to slump down;
- don't try to read upside down what they are writing;
- don't take the initiative of the interview, unless they invite you to;
- don't show exaggerated signs of nervousness (hands fidgeting, feet constantly moving, etc.);
- don't look at your watch;
- make an effort to synthesize: don't tell your life story for hours. Know how to get to the essential while being clear and explicit. Don't think that all this is unimportant. The person recruiting receives many candidates and wants to get to the essentials. They can quickly get annoyed. They attach a lot of importance to these little things that can annoy them and risk costing you your place for an internship.
SUBSTANCE
You must know how to present yourself, here are a few tips:
- be concise in your answers. Nothing is more tedious for a recruiter than listening to a candidate who talks too much. Know how to stop to listen
- ask questions, don't be apathetic. It is just as tedious to have a candidate who says nothing, shows no interest while swearing that the internship interests them greatly
- show enthusiasm. Understand that the recruiter or department head is proud of their company and their job and that they can only be delighted to feel you enthusiastic and responsive
- don't try to be too clever by displaying offbeat humor
- don't bluff, it always shows
- be convincing in what you say.
The recruiter may be more or less friendly, more or less directive, they may start the interview with silence (it's rare but unpleasant), they may ask you to introduce yourself. More rarely, they will start by presenting the company and the internship, which is more comfortable for you because it is more convivial.
Understand well, as we indicated above, that you are in a strong position. You may find this strange, but the paradox is only apparent: it is the recruiter who is courting you since they offered you an appointment. So it's up to you to take advantage of this advantage from the start.
Don't let yourself be destabilized by too much coldness or dryness in the contact. This is often just a way of showing their power, especially with a young recruiter who is just as uncomfortable as you are. Nevertheless, it is they who will decide whether or not to follow up on your application after the interview.
It is therefore important to get a good measure of this interlocutor, not to get angry or let yourself be destabilized. Note that the interview will be different depending on whether you are received by a specialist from the recruitment department or directly by the head of the department who is looking for an intern. In the first case, it will be more "psychological" and personality-oriented, in the second it will be more focused on your technical skills and your ability to integrate into the department.
However, regardless of your interlocutor, the most important thing to convey is your motivation. This is the key word, the sesame to your entry into the company, the most sought-after quality. It's not the only one, but on its own, it can change everything.
Even if you don't have all the qualities required for the position, genuine motivation intelligently displayed, that is to say without overdoing it but manifested in an authentic way, by arguing it with precise facts can be decisive for your application.
Remember that the goal of the recruiter is not to judge you as an individual but to know if your profile, personal and professional, corresponds well to the needs of the internship to be filled.
Your goal is to be chosen. If you approach interviews with this goal, you have a good chance of succeeding. Obviously, the match between your profile and the company's needs is crucial. But if it exists, you have every chance of being selected if you follow our advice to the letter. Many candidates correspond on paper to the internship to be filled, but only one will be selected: the one who has shown the most motivation and enthusiasm.
Kapstages.com
Posted on March 20, 2014.
