Advice for Preparing for a Job Interview - Part 2

This is the second in a 3 part series of articles on advice for preparing for a job interview.

We were told that during a recent survey of a large number of employers who were questioned about the important aspects of making the decision to employ a person or not body language came out amongst the top five for more than 95% of them. The right body language can radiate confidence to others.

So here is some important advice for preparing for a job interview:

• Make sure you get enough sleep the night before. A yawn can easily be mistaken for boredom!
• Don’t even think to take your cell phone with you!
• Proper and appropriate clothing as well as a firm handshake and friendly smile will always help to make a good first impression. More about that in the 3rd and last article.
• You should practice how to have a good posture before you go to the interview. During the interview it is very important that you constantly keep a good and professional posture in, other words sit up straight and keep your head up.
• Don’t fiddle with things while in the interview for instance a pen or paper or anything.
• Keep both your hands in front of you on the table or where the interviewers can see it. If your hands are not still and are busy fiddling with something it shows your lack of self confidence and can also be very annoying to other people.
• Don’t over use hand gestures while speaking it could be distracting.
• Don’t bite your lips or rub your nose between sentences that is usually a sign that you are dishonest and/or busy making things up.
• Don’t have your arms crossed over your chest while you speak or listen it is a sign of aggressiveness or carelessness.
• Don’t shrug your shoulders when you are unsure because that is exactly what the gesture says to them – you don’t know the answer.
• Don’t answer questions with grunts, nods and head shakes speak up clearly say yes or no don’t use yea or nay or yep and nope other any other slang.

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