{"id":176751,"date":"2016-08-22T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=176751"},"modified":"2016-08-22T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:03:50","slug":"top-3-tips-to-ace-a-job-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/176751-top-3-tips-to-ace-a-job-interview.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 3 tips to ace a job interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Performing well in a job interview makes or breaks your chance of being employed, and the experience can be daunting for many.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, job-seekers can look for tips online on how to conduct themselves during an interview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjunction.co.za\/blog\/?p=33038\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CareerJunction<\/strong><\/a> has detailed three steps you must follow if you want to ace your job interview, as detailed below.<\/p>\n<p>The advice applies to those who have already secured an interview with a company.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Do meaningful research<\/h3>\n<p>Do research about your prospective employer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone can read a company\u2019s website, and your interviewing competition will do just that,&#8221; stated CareerJunction, adding that job-seekers\u00a0must dig into &#8220;as much recent history of the company as you can find&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Recent earnings reports for public firms, press releases, social media profiles, and articles in the media are good sources of information.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Take cues from your interviewer<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the interviewer\u2019s cues and provide the information the interviewer wants.<\/p>\n<p>Listen and watch the interviewer, answer the questions asked, and don&#8217;t only rattle off topics you feel show you in the best light.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Treat interviewers like clients<\/h3>\n<p>Approach the interview as if it were a &#8220;client-facing project&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You would never dream of not following up with a client or potential client, or not thanking them for their time,&#8221; stated the post.<\/p>\n<p>Ask what the priorities for the position are and\u00a0find out about the main challenges they want you to tackle.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More business news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/176383-real-world-salaries-of-it-professionals-in-south-africa.html\">Real-world salaries of IT professionals in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/176551-workers-angry-as-icasa-applies-no-work-no-pay-rule.html\">Workers angry as Icasa applies no work, no pay rule<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performing well in a job interview makes or breaks your chance of being employed, and the experience can be daunting for many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":143805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,2366,38641],"class_list":["post-176751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-careerjunction","tag-job-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176753,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176751\/revisions\/176753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}