5 Tips to Hone Your Interview Performance Skills

With competition being so fierce, you need to be at your best while preparing for an interview. No doubt with practice and experience you can walk into an interview with some much-needed confidence, but being respectful, genuine, and aware are some easy tips you can use to hone your interview performance skills.

In this article, I will be sharing some of my professional recruitment insights that will help you sharpen your own job interviewing skills and, who knows, it could even help you land your next dream job.

5 Tips to Hone Your Interview Performance Skills

Tip #1: Go Prepared.

Research well in advance about the job, company, its services, products, and competitors. Go to their website. Read about their core values, mission statement, recent news, issues, etc.

Also, take the time to go through the job description and prepare your answers that suggest how well you fit into that particular role.

Tip #2: Dress Appropriately

It goes without saying that you should dress appropriately either in business formals or casuals depending on the company you are applying.

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Ensure your clothes are clean and presentable the night before. Prepare your bag with all the required documents, certificates, CV, photographs, notepad, and pen the night before.

Tip #3: Be on time

on time

Do not be late. Be present a minimum of 10 minutes and maximum 15 minutes before the scheduled appointment. Not too early not too late. Don’t end up looking desperate for the job by arriving an hour or half an hour early, just be on time either 10 or 15 mins.

Being on time shows how responsible and committed you are towards the job. If it’s a new locality and you are visiting it for the first time, then budget your travel time by checking out the location beforehand.

#Tip #4: Avoid these non-verbal mistakes and hone your interview performance skills

Your body language will be assessed right from the time you introduce yourself to the interviewer until the end of the interview. Therefore, avoid these most common non-verbal mistakes mentioned below:

Touching your face and hair
Not making any eye contact
Not smiling
Low energy
Sitting with your arms crossed on your chest
Too many hand gestures
Weak handshake
Excessive fidgeting

Tip #5: Ask relevant questions at the end of the interview

Pre-plan a set of well-thought-out questions. Asking questions shows the interviewer that you are interested and have done your homework about the company or job you are applying for.

So, prepare at least 3 to 5 questions pertaining the job responsibilities, company culture, growth opportunities, reporting manager information, and when to follow up to know the results of the interview.

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So carefully go through these above-mentioned tips to hone your interview performance skills and land that dream job.