A good question, why do you want to work for this employer? How do you answer this in a way that will make an impression and which doesn’t sound clichéd? Continue reading
Category Archives: Job Interviews
How to present your transferable skills to an employer
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?”
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?’
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
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