Setting goals is one of the most effective approaches to evaluate your journey to success. This applies to anyone, including students or working professionals or someone trying to start their life from a fresh perspective. While creating milestones, we often set too high or impractical targets that are difficult to achieve. This leads to failures …
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What Interview Questions Should You Prepare for a First-time Job?
The first interview could be immensely nerve-wracking. Those appearing for a first-time job interview have little idea of questions that’ll come flooding. Though there is never a surety about what an interviewer might ask you. But there are a few questions that every interviewee is almost certainly asked during an interview. If you appear for …
How Can Students Get Rid of Anxiety in Their First Interview?
So you’ve nailed that cover letter and landed yourself the first interview. Honestly, it cannot get more nerve-racking than this. It is natural to feel anxious and stressed before the interview. However, you must calm down to be able to give your best at the interview. The thought of appearing for the first interview is …
What Should You Wear for Your College Interview?
Among several aspects involved in a college admission process, interviews are perhaps one of the most common stress-causing factors for a student. Everyone wants their first impression to be a positive and memorable one during the interview. Your dress, body language, and how you are carrying yourself, are the things that get noticed at first …
Best Way to Prepare for First Job Interview
Best Way to Respond “Why Should We Hire You?” in a Job Interview
So, the interviewer at your last job interview asked you “Why should we hire you?” and you were stumped. It would not be the first time. This question catches unsuspecting young job seekers by surprise very often. It’s one of the most challenging questions at job interviews. Think about it. No matter how suitable you …
How to Avoid Common Resume, Cover Letter and Interview Mistakes?
So you found an ideal job posting and immediately contacted the recruiter all excitedly. Er! You made silly mistakes on your resume, cover letter or/and interview. And you lost the chance of landing yourself an ideal job. And just like that what would have been a stepping stone became another failure. If this sounds familiar …
How To Respond “Tell Me About Yourself” in A Job Interview?
The first open-ended question every employee faces in an interview is “Tell me about yourself”. If you see it from the employer’s perspective, the question is pretty simple. There is no requirement of technical skills, real-life examples, or job-related knowledge. As much as this open-ended question seems easy, it can be the most challenging part …
Scholarship Interview Questions and Answers
If you succeed in reaching the interview stage of the scholarship application process, be proud of yourself – this is a great achievement! This puts you in a group of final contenders for the award and means that the funding organization is keen to find out more about your plans for using the scholarship to …
The Interview Question You Should Always Expect
Regardless of the position, you’re applying for, there is one question you will have to answer at your job interview or college course interview. No, it’s not about what you’ve done before. And it’s not about your strengths or your weaknesses. Those questions are common. But they are not the key questions your success at …
University Of Sheffield Online Course On Interviews
The University Of Sheffield is offering this open online course, ‘How to Succeed at: Interviews’ to showcase just a small fraction of the great offerings at the University. This beginner’s course is aimed to anyone applying for jobs or planning for study. The overall objective of this course is to provide the tools applicant need to succeed at interviews. …
Are Interviews Necessary When Applying to University/College?
Colleges and Universities are places where people from all/many communities come together for a common goal – education. Hence the answer to the question “are interviews necessary when applying to university/colleges” is YES. It is very important for the environment to be neutral and unbiased and the unity should come through the intellect, and to …
Scholarship Interviews: All you need to know
If you have applied for a Scholarship and have submitted all the necessary papers (thesis, project report, academic testimonials, and publications if any) and you have been called for an Interview then remember that you have almost made it through. Yes, this is no exaggeration. A little pre-Interview analysis and preparation will certainly land you …
Scholarship Interview
Tips for scholarship interview Congratulations! You are the selected for the final round and you are entering in the last stage of your scholarship applying process. This is final stage in order to avail scholarship. So you should try at your best for this phase. Interview is conservation between two or more people and excellent …