Interview: Tips and Tricks People Use to Pass Interview Questions -Great Answers

What to wear

As you can imagine, clothes help you make a great first impression, but they shouldn’t speak louder than you do. Dress professionally and let your skills and knowledge make the impression.

Watch Your Body Language

It’s all about confidence. Offer your interviewer a firm, dry handshake and watch your posture. Also, make eye contact with your interviewer. Don’t answer questions by looking around the room. It’s also a good idea to use hand gestures in moderation and refrain from fidgeting.

Focus on Your Past Behavior

Your interviewer will be interested in what you’ve done in previous jobs or in school. We want to hear about specific situations. Let us know how you handled them and what results you achieved. Tell us about success stories, but it also doesn’t hurt to include a time things didn’t go quite right, but you still learned from the experience.

Describe Your Qualifications

What makes you unique? Are you the type of person who enjoys working in a certain type of environment? During your interview, your job is to convince us that you have the right attitude, experience, skill set, and qualifications for the position.

"Why Should We Hire You?"

This may seem obvious, but try to answer this question out loud right now. Was your answer confident and concise? Think of yourself as a product. Why should the customer buy you? Let us know that you have been listening to our needs and have what it takes to do the job. Let us know that you are the solution.

Tough Questions

Like we said, our interview focus will be on what you have done in previous jobs. You can prepare for the interview by thinking of and perhaps jotting down a list of past accomplishments. Also, think of tough situations you have handled well, and maybe some you didn't handle as well as you could have.

Ask Questions

Surprisingly, most people don't take advantage of the chance to ask questions of their interviewer. This is a missed opportunity to find out information about the position. It is important for you to ask questions -- not just any questions, but those relating to the job, the company and the industry. Go ahead and ask. That’s what we’re here for.

Other Information

In most cases you will complete an employment application online before you come in to meet with our Staffing Team or Hiring Managers. Just in case, be sure to bring with you the names, addresses and dates for where you went to school, where you've worked for the past five years, and where you've lived for the past seven years.

Closing Points

Leave your interviewer with the right picture of you. Think of at least five skills or traits you want remembered after the interview. Ask if there is anything else you can provide, such as references, background information or work samples. These will all help you make the right impression.

Also, don’t forget to state your interest in the position. Again; this sounds easy, but remember to act interested and remember to mention the added value you can bring to the job.

What now?

Once your interview is over ask about the next step in the process. It's important for you to know what to expect. Ask for the decision date and what date we’ll contact you. Also, find out how to contact us and who to contact. If you don't hear back, you’ll need to know who to contact and whether they will accept calls to check your hiring status.