Successful Interviewing

Successful Interviewing
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Overview

Give wings to your career aspirations. Learn how to go for a successful interview with one of the best content.

Skills you will learn

What are the course deliverables?

Do thorough research on a company of your choice.
Prepare for those critical first 3-5 minutes of an interview (when many recruiters say an interview is either won or lost).
Prepare for the all important "Tell Me About Yourself" question.
Prepare for traditional interview questions.
Use strategies for handling the salary question. We don't teach you salary negotiation techniques, but we do teach you how to avoid putting yourself in a weak negotiation position.
Prepare an elevator speech - all three variations.
Use persuasive speech techniques to present professional accomplishments and qualifications in a manner that conveys benefits to a potential employer.
Use persuasive speech techniques to convince a potential employer of your interest, motivation and preparation for a particular position.
Adapt your nonverbal communication style to the expectations of English-speaking interviewers.

More about this course

This course is the second in a five-course specialization. We recommend that courses #1, #2 and #3 be taken in sequence. Course #4 - on resume and cover letter writing - can be taken in any sequence, while course #5 is the capstone for the specialization as a whole.This course can be thought of as "Interviewing I", while course #3 is "Interviewing II." Course #3 covers more advanced interview formats, including behavioral and situational interviews - along with the special case of telephone screenings. The logic for including telephone screenings - which happen at the start of the interview process - late in this specialization on interviewing is that those screenings, while happening early in the process, involve all the skills that you'll learn from course #1 through course #3.