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How to present your transferable skills to an employer
Applications / Job Interviews

How to present your transferable skills to an employer

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Sue Johnstone • Leave a comment

We gain transferable skills through a range of experiences – not necessarily in a sector or relevant work place. The key is to identify where you have demonstrated these skills in the past, in your own experiences and illustrate these in your applications. This is the theme of the latest Warwick Careers webinar ‘how to … Continue reading →

How to answer “Why do you want to work for us?”
Job Interviews / Job market

How to answer “Why do you want to work for us?”

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Anna Preston • Leave a comment

This should be easy shouldn’t it? Surely it’s easy to tell the employer why you are keen to work for them.  Yet in reality it can be difficult to pinpoint what exactly has attracted you to the employer – aside from their freebies at the careers fair!  It’s likely that you are applying to more … Continue reading →

How to answer ‘How would your friends describe you?’
Job Interviews / Job market

How to answer ‘How would your friends describe you?’

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Chris Manley • Leave a comment

Is it just me, or does this at first glance seem like an odd question to come up in the interview context? It certainly does come up, and not infrequently. Surely employers are interested in how you are in the workplace, not in what goes on when you are relaxing with people you like? Continue reading →

How to answer ‘What are your weaknesses?’
Job Interviews / Self awareness

How to answer ‘What are your weaknesses?’

Posted on May 21, 2019 by David Molyneux • Leave a comment

As interview questions go this one has to be up there with the most feared. In a situation where it is imperative that you sell yourself and be the best ‘you’ you can be, you are asked to lay bare your faults and explain exactly why you shouldn’t get this job – not a welcoming … Continue reading →

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