The document provides guidance on interview skills. It discusses: 1) The different types of interviews and common myths about interviews. 2) Key things to do before an interview like researching the company, having resume copies, and rehearsing answers. 3) Important things to do during an interview like arriving early, making eye contact, having a firm handshake, and maintaining positive body language. 4) How to answer common interview questions by being prepared with specific strengths and weaknesses, giving real-life examples, and focusing answers on job requirements.

1. Instructed on: 24-Feb-2012 | Session: #06
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By: Iman Adel
Sherif Shawki
Topic Code: SFK-05-2012
All Copy Rights Saved to the 7 th Students’ Conference on Communication and Information Based in the Faculty of Computers and Information Cairo University – Egypt 2011/ 2012 www.scci-cu.com

2. Interviewing skills
By: Sherif Shawki
Iman Adel

3. • What is an interview
Agenda
• Types
• Myths
• Before
• During
• After
• Summary

4. What is an interview ?
It is a formal meeting , arranged for the
assessment of the qualifications of an
applicant.

5. Types

6. One-to-one

7. One-to-many

8. Phone

9. Many-to-one

10. • If you answer better than the others,
you’ll get the job.
• The more you say, the better you’ll do.
• Never say ‘I don’t know’.
• Good-looking people get the job.
• Be yourself.
• Interviewers are looking for flaws.

11. Before

12. Connect
the website

13. Have extra copies of
your
resume.

14. Look closely at
any
information
they have sent
you

16. Rehearse!!

18. Ladies

19. During
On the day
itself

20. Breath

21. Drink water

22. Arrive
early

23. During
In the
interview

24. Smile
Make eye
contact
Shake
hands

25. Body
language

26. Positive Body Language
Eye contact Leaning forward
Cross-ankles

27. Negative body language

29. • Arrive early but enter the room on time.
• Be confident.
• Be calm and ready.
• Try to break the ice.
• Be comfortable.
• Be positive.
• Listen carefully to the questions.
• Take time to think before answer.
• Clarify your answers.
• Ask for clarification.

30. • Crushing handshake
• Your hands are wet and sticky.
• Start with a silly joke.
• Get tense.
• Mobile phone on
• Chew gum.
• Lie!
• Complain about your past organization
or employees.
• Use slag words.

32. Good Interviewers
• Interested in whether you will
be competent in the job.
• Aren’t influenced by their
personal preferences
• Take notes
• Will use ratings scales to score
you.
• Base their questions on the job
requirements.
• Try to put you at your ease.
• Want to see the best of you.

33. Bad Interviewers
• Rely on their feelings when making a decision.
• Are unaware of their prejudices.
• Act as amateur psychologists.
• May play on your nervousness.
• Want to catch you out.

34. Common
questions

35. 1-‘What would you say your
strengths are?’
How to
Pitfalls
Overcome
Feeling
Have three strengths
uncomfortable about
you can talk about
blowing your own
confidently that are
trumpet and giving a
crucial to the job.
half-hearted answer.
Giving a lot of
opinions about
yourself without any
supporting evidence.

36. 2-‘What weaknesses do
you have?’
How to
Pitfalls:
Answer:
Claiming you
Have two
don’t have any
weaknesses.
weaknesses.
Talking about a Make sure they
weakness that are things that
will worry won’t worry
them. the panel.
Talk about how
you have
worked on your
weaknesses.

37. 3-‘How would you deal
with a difficult colleague?’
How to
Pitfalls
Answer
Answerin A real-
g with a life
answer
list of always
platitud sounds
es. better.

38. 4-‘Why do you want this
job?’
How to
Pitfalls:
Answer:
Avoid Choose
giving a appealing
response reasons
which, is to the
not going interview
to endear panel.
you to Show
the enthusias
interview m.
panel.

39. After

40. Thank the interviewer

44. Go out and do something you love