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INTERVIEW TIPS WHAT IS EMPLOYER LOOKING FOR Following are the range of things that the employers want to see in a potential candidate. The candidate qualifications: Are the qualifications genuine and adequate? Alleged experience: The employer want to verify and make sure the candidate got the alleged experience. Something outside the CV: What the candidate has left out of the CV that might be relevant? Behavior in a team: The employer is very interested to know how you will behave within a team.. Be a team player not a team leader if you are applying for a job where the role is to be a player most of the time. Assertive: Employer want to see your confidence and enthusiasm during the interview. Intelligence: Employers want to see how intelligent you are. Motivation skills: Can the candidate motivate people. This quality is highly tested when you are applying for Sales and Marketing role. Leadership and Development Skills: The employer will try to find and make sure you got Leadership and Development Skills. Decision Making: The employer want to see if your logic sound and you can make good decisions. Emotional Stability - The employer tries to test you and make sure you are emotionally stable. This may be some sort of disturbing questions or make you angry to see your body language. Verbal Communication: The employer will test by discussing different scenarios or ask some sort of irrelevant questions just to test your verbal communication. The most common question is in the very beginning of inter e.g. “Please tell me something about yourself” In writing Communication - The employer test the candidate for written communication as well. This process starts sometimes by email before the interview happens or during / after the interview to check your writing skills in general. Quality of communication: The employer checks the quality of communication in term of language, professionalism in writing and enough communication to clearly cover the conversation. Listening Skills: This is very important point and the employer is always very interested to hire a good listener. (please refer to our other articles of listening skills during the interview at www.careersingulf.com) Reliability: The employer is very interested curious to find how reliable the candidate is because several jobs like finance, information technology etc. need people who can be trusted. Honesty: The employer will give high score to the honesty of the employee. Honesty is one of the key to successful business. Honest staff is very productive and the employer enjoys his business without the fear of any discrepancies, fraud, loss of assets etc. Time Management: Ideal employee is the one who has time management skills and this is also an important quality which the employee will look into you. Fitness: Are they fit? This is what the employee will verify in term of health, habits and age. Previous Improvements: The employer also want to make sure you have a good record and have always improved yourself in the past. Your CV job description is a good evidence of your improvement where you were on a junior position in the beginning but now on a good position. Your short training courses will add here as well. Employees who have always tried to improve their qualification, knowledge and experience are most right candidates and most of them are winners in the interview. Stress Management: Another quality of a good employee is stress management. Your employer will also check how you can cope with stress. Reliable Memory: You may be surprised why some employer is asking everything about your previous jobs etc. while he has your CV in hand. This all is to make sure you have a good memory. Some questions will be thrown on you more than once to make sure you remember what you answer before. Copyrights: www.CareersInGulf.com

JOB HUNTING-The 5 Steps Job hunting or job searching is a process of looking for employment, due to unemployment or dissatisfaction with employee’s current job. STEPS TO FIND A JOB Locating jobs Researching the employers Networking Applying Interviewing 1. Locating jobs Following are most common methods of locating jobs Finding a job through a friend or an extended business network, personal network, or online social network service Using an employment website Looking through the classifieds in newspapers Using a private or public employment agency or recruiter Looking on a company's web site for open jobs Going to a job fair Using professional guidance such as outplacement services that give training in writing a resume, applying for jobs and how to be successful at interview. 2. Researching the employers Majority of serious job seekers do research on employers to which they are applying and this help them during the interview because the employer can clearly see the sign of enthusiasm in the job seeker. Such information collected by the job seeker might include open positions, job description, company full name, locations, Website, business description, year of establishment, revenues, number of employees, stock prices if public, name of senior officers, major products and services, major competitors, strength and weakness. 3. Networking Networking means contacting as many people as possible personally, through friends, colleagues and relatives and social media. Networking is a highly effective way to find a job. It is estimated that 50% or higher of all jobs are found through networking. Employers and decision makers are increasingly using online social networking sites to gather information about job applicants. Job seekers need to begin to pay more attention to what employers and recruiters find when they do their pre-interview information gathering about applicants. 4. Applying Applying for job is a process to hand out resume or Curriculum Vitae to prospective employers thought posts, visit door to door, email, recruiting agencies and job boards. Another recommended method of job hunting is cold calling or emailing companies that one desires to work for and inquire to whether there are any job vacancies. It is generally recommended that keep your resume brief, organized, concise, and targeted to the position being sought. With certain occupations, such as graphic design or writing, portfolios of a job seeker's previous work are essential and are evaluated as much, if not more than the person's resume. In most other occupations, the resume should focus on past accomplishments, expressed in terms as concretely as possible (e.g. number of people managed, amount of increased sales or improved customer satisfaction). 5. Interviewing After the employer receives the resumes, they make a short list of the potential candidates for interview. During the interview process, interviewers generally look for persons who they believe will be best for the job and work environment. The interview may occur in several rounds until the interviewer is satisfied and offers the job to the applicant  Copyrights: www.CareersInGulf.com