“English Job Interviews and Why Searching for a Job is
not Just Writing an English Resume”
It talks about a method and how to prepare for a job
interview. The author mentions that preparation
starts before writing your resume. This
is a good point because part of the preparation will help you in writing your
resume. The preparation that he talks about is understanding what your skills
are and where you learned or acquired them. As well you will be able to give an example of
you using the skills.
The article also talks about show and prove as a way to
answer many job interview questions.
“Show and prove is not a new
concept. Various interview writers have
mentioned it before. It is about being
able to tell people where or how you acquired your skills (prove) or to have a
story or example to show you using your skills and exhibiting personality
traits (show). Proving you have the
skills entails saying where you acquired them.
Did you learn them through courses, or did you acquire them by using or
learning them at work. Showing you have
the necessary skills and personality traits is done by having stories or
examples about you accomplishing something, and this will show the reader or
your interviewers you using some key skills.
It will also show some of your personality traits. The main thing to remember is that the skills
and traits you show should be some of the key skills and traits that the
company is looking for in the person that will fill the position.” http://johns-online-english.com/english-job-interview/
The prove part will help you convince the interviewers that
you have the skills and the show part will provide interesting stories to help
answer all or part of some interview questions.
Show and prove are not just useful for answering interview questions.
“Once you know how to show or prove
your skills and traits you can use this information to write a good cover email
and to develop answers to many of the questions that the interviewers may ask
during the interview. There are lists of
standard and tricky (hard) questions that interviewers may ask during an
interview. By studying these you can see
what it is that they want in your answer.
In a job interview the interviewers will be looking for you to verbally
show or prove that you have most of the skills and traits they are looking for.”
http://johns-online-english.com/english-job-interview/
The author makes the point that the whole process is
interrelated in that your preparation can be used in other parts of the job
search process. This includes the cover
email and, in some cultures, your autobiography.
The article goes on to give the reader an idea about how to answer some interview questions. I suggest that you go to http://johns-online-english.com/english-job-interview/ and read the full article. You can also see the video that is related to the article at http://johns-online-english.com/business-english-course-videos/.
