Interview Do’s and Dont’s
Interview Do’s and Don’ts
Things you should do
Here are some helpful hints and tips to help you during your interview:
- Enter the room confidently
- Shake hands firmly and introduce yourself
- Smile
- Be polite, friendly and look the interviewer in the eye as soon as you enter the room
- Check that it’s OK to use cue cards or notes during the interview
- Try to maintain eye contact with the person or people you are talking to
- Look interested and ask questions as well as answering
- Answer questions as fully as you can, avoid just saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’
- Provide examples to prove your skills and achievements
- Tell the truth
- Ask if you don’t understand a question
- Speak clearly
- Sell yourself – get your good points across and be positive
- Listen
- Answer questions with examples
- Keep your answers brief and to the point
- Come prepared
- Appear confident
Here are some things you shouldn’t do in an interview:
- Sit down until the interviewer asks you to
- Fidget or slouch in the chair or fold your arms
- Swear – even mildly
- Criticise your past employers
- Interrupt
- Draw attention to your weaknesses
- Lie or be too enthusiastic – stay calm and stick to the facts
