How to avoid interview failure

If you want to avoid losing job after job in interviewing process, you must avoid the following negative attributes. Even if you are happy with your current job and company, it is wise to interview for other position. This can be pursued discreetly once or twice a year.
It is also wise for professionals to establish a relationship with an employer recruiter and maintain it over the year. This will serve as another business contact and mainline to other opportunities. In fact, job seekers and employed professionals are often advised to seek employment elsewhere if they are not promoted at least every three to four years.

In some organizations and Government establishments, the statutory number of years a staff should stay in one position before promotion to the next level is 3 years for junior staff and 4 years for senior staff. For this reason, even the employed should continue to review job listings, related company updates, trends and innovation.
This will enable you to:
·Stay informed about the local and national employment market
·Participate meaningfully, in conversation with peers and superiors alike both inside and outside the company.
·Widen your business contacts and to secure a new position for yourself should the need arise.

Some tips on interview success
You must make concerted effort to have connections that are worthwhile. With the economic recession internationally and increasing unemployment rate in the states, and with so many unemployed people vying for the few job spaces available, you must be a stand out to secure a job.
How Do You Get These Connections?
You can begin by getting to know your neighbors and the senior citizens on your street, and to ensure their wellbeing. Keep an eye on your neighbors’ property and be willing to lend a helping hand any time the need arise. Such attitude can earn you a reference from a good neighbor.

You must read more on current employment trends so that you will have enough to say in a job interview and have a good questions to ask at the end of the exercise. You can go online and search for the company to which you apply and read their website pages.

An applicant attending interview for the first time might find it difficult to suppress negative emotional presentation. It is not merely a matter of learning about emotional intelligence, it is about projecting appropriate emotion. Many employers have noticed that some job candidates present themselves at interview as very angry and unjustly wounded by former employer. This is a negative attitude.

A mature potential employee demonstrates that he or she understand business trend, which makes job seeking a life-long career in itself within a changing global marketplace. Employers are looking for employee with clean humor, good taste, friendly openness and understanding.
You must give the potential employer a good reason why you are the best candidate for the job.


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