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GetAhead in Winning At Interviews

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This training course will teach you a proven method for promoting yourself as the ideal candidate at an interview. It covers all aspects of professional interview conduct, from analyzing your abilities against the job requirements to negotiating the best possible employment package.

You will learn how to:

Identify and promote your personal strengths, whilst managing any limitations positively.
Identify the underlying meaning of any interview question and respond appropriately.
Approach all aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication effectively.
Deal with any points of contention in a professional and friendly manner.
Negotiate the best possible terms and create a winning final impression.

Study Area 1 - Introduction

Types of Interview-This section introduces the various types of interview that you may encounter, and explains how to adjust your approach accordingly.

Study Area 2 - Preparing for Interview

Assessing Your Strengths-Explains how to identify the personal qualities that could set you apart from the other candidates. It also provides an interactive session to establish your strengths and limitations and shows how you should promote these to emphasize your strengths in relation to the job.
Management Self-Assessment - This section comprises an interactive self-analysis questionnaire that will help you to assess your own management abilities.
Addressing your Limitations - Explains why you should have a reasonable understanding of your own limitations, and how to address these issues effectively throughout the selection process.
Creating Your Self-Image - A methodical approach to performing an analysis and peer review of your career to date. This culminates in the writing of your career statement, which is a brief summary of your achievements and aspirations.

Study Area 3-Interview Techniques

Interview Dress Code - Explains how to dress to ensure that you make a positive impression.
Controlling Interview Nerves - Illustrates the common physiological and psychological responses to the stress of being interviewed, and explains some tactics that will help you to relax and adopt a positive frame of mind.
A Winning First Impression - Why the first impression you make can be the key to a successful interview.
Positive Body Language - Why you need to be aware of your body language from the moment you arrive until your interview is complete. The correct use of posture and limb positioning, and the importance of positive eye contact are all explained in detail.
Sell, Sell, Sell - Shows why an interview is best approached as a sales meeting. How to communicate your key benefits to the interviewer and how to avoid, or dilute, any negative aspects of your employment history.

Study Area 4-Answering Questions

Answering the Top 12 Questions - Highlights the three main categories that interview questions fall into, and illustrates how to use your pre-interview preparation to frame the ideal answers to the top twelve interview questions.
Dealing With Difficult Questions - Difficult questions also fall into three main categories and this section describes how to use your pre-interview preparation to frame the ideal answers to these potentially damaging questions.
Managing Disagreement - Explains why you should never argue with the interviewer even though there may be genuine points of contention. It also describes how to approach disagreements and communicate your point of view without provoking an argument.

Study Area 5 - Practical Time Planning

Planning Your Day - Explains how to use a planner or scheduler, to plan your tasks according to your workload and performance cycle.
Using Activity Networks - Describes activity networks, which have become established as one of the most popular resource planning techniques available.
Critical Path Analysis - Shows how to identify the critical path within any network of activities and how to calculate the total float and the free float available.
Effective Resource Planning - Describes resource planning, which is concerned with the effective scheduling of all of the resources available in order to deliver the outputs required.
Preparing Planning Diagrams - Discusses the various ways that resource-planning information can be summarized for presentation to senior management.

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