Optimising Your Job Search – Part 2   “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Zig Ziglar   Last week I started talking about the two different steps in…

There are two different steps in a job search: the preparation and the job search itself. The better you prepare your job searching the more effective and less frustrating the actual job search will become.
This week’s blog is about optimising the preparation-stage.

For any interview you should dress appropriately, show up on time, know the name of the person(s) that will interview you, read about the company and the role they offer, prepare questions, know some answers to questions that might be asked to you, and then you sit down and you smash it!

In your search to a new job, a new career path or an internship, job interviews are an important and inevitable part of the process. Once you get invited for an interview, there is only one chance to make a good impression.
We all know to dress professionally, research and prepare, have questions ready for at the end of the interview, talk polite and don’t start mumbling when you don’t know an answer. How is it then possible that so many people still get it wrong…

I got good grades, went to good universities, even have some work experience back home so finding a job would be easy….Right?