The most important setting when applying for a job: not only you get chosen, but you also choose. You need to prepare for the interview: build your professional history and clearly formulate questions, the answers to which will help you get the information you are interested in about the company.
1. If you are not comfortable imagining the situation of interviewing a new employer, do not start from the most attractive place of work. Find similar options in companies that you are not very interested in. Get tremendous experience, additional information about the requirements for the desired position, get acquainted with various payment systems. Use this experience to correct your professional history.
2. Be determined that you will have to go through more than one interview. Many companies consider multi-stage interviews necessary: first, recruiters, then line managers, then senior managers, then special services. Don't get annoyed. First, you got them interested. Secondly, it is a good opportunity to get a better understanding of the organization of the organization.
3. Provide only reliable information about yourself. You don't have to invent anything about yourself and your own merits. You may find yourself in an awkward situation, create additional difficulties for yourself, and not be able to stay there. And get a negative experience. Of course, if you are one of those who consider negative experience to be a faster way to gain a mind of reason, then at least set yourself the goals that you are going to achieve.
4. Know your worth. Do not be shy. To do this, evaluate in advance your existing experience and your wishes for your development and the development of your professional, career relationships in the organization. Formulate what you can definitely do right from the moment you start working and what will be possible in your further development.
5. Find the strengths of your professional profile. Do not take the position that you can do everything and agree to everything. This does not make a positive impression, and if you are hired, there will be an appropriate attitude.
6. Know your shortcomings (for this particular position) and how to compensate for them. You don't need to talk about them yourself, but if it comes up, you will not be caught off guard. You need to think carefully about your shortcomings. You don't need to be very frank. But sometimes it's better to choose some subtleties of your choice and talk with dignity about how you can compensate for them.
7. At the very beginning of the interview, you have every right to request initial information about the company and position, if you have not been told about it earlier. It is better if you know about it before the meeting. And only after that start talking about yourself.
8. In good companies, it is believed that if a candidate does not ask about anything, he is poorly motivated, inactive, not confident in himself, does not know why he came, etc.
9. Questions you should ask:
· Details about the specifics of the position for which you are applying (what resources you will have in performing your duties, what degree of independence you will be given: if the standards of activity in the organization or a creative approach and use of your best practices is possible).
· What system of performance assessment is adopted in the company, are indicators used in performance assessment (for example, KPI).
· People you may need to work with.
· About direct management and about top management.
· About the rules and regulations adopted in this organization.
· About salary and opportunities for its growth.
· About social protection.
· About professional growth.
· About career advancement.
· About the organization of the workplace.
· Etc.
10. Be prepared for questions that you need to answer specifically.
· What are your development plans for the next 5 years.
· What you liked / disliked at the previous place of work, in the style of leadership.
· What responsibilities do you like / dislike to perform.
· What were the mistakes / merits at the previous place of work.
· How do you present your work, ideally in a new location.
