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  1. 29-05-2008, 06:43 PM #33
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    Re: Interview Advice

    see thats a great topic, you can explain why you choose it, why you feal qualified to explain it, its naturally intresting etc.

    aim for 500 to 600 words, or 30 'points' that you want to get across, I always find it much easyer to write presentations like this, because they shouldn't just be a paragraph of text that you'd submit for an essay.

    great topic, wish the munchkins who'd i'd had to sit through where so intresting (seriously one person did a 10 minuite feature on suping up a corsa, i mean get a girlfriend or lean how to rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish please, that was unbearable!)
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    Re: Interview Advice

    Well, I survived the interview, though I didn't follow my script in the end, instead talked naturally about the topics as the slide's prompted me (it helped having to bend down and move onto the next slide with the keyboard).

    The chocolate tasting samples were popular however! all told the interview took an hour and 20 minutes, so they were obviously treating it fairly seriously.

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    Re: Interview Advice

    Well done. When will you hear from them?
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    Re: Interview Advice

    Nice one. Let us know when you know.
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    Re: Interview Advice

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    The chocolate tasting samples were popular however!
    That may have been a very good plan...
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    Re: Interview Advice

    Hopefully will find out in a week or so, what was promising is that they left me with a couple of the staff before the interview and I found it really easy to start chatting to them. As a nice touch, left the spare bar behind

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    Re: Interview Advice

    ah bribery!

    the way someone i know got a job at an investment bank was because of toffies!
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    Re: Interview Advice

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    ah bribery!

    the way someone i know got a job at an investment bank was because of toffies!
    You sure that wasn't just his nose?
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    Re: Interview Advice

    Remember that those guys are going to spend a part of their life with you, so you should present them also a little bit of YOU!!!
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  10. 05-06-2008, 11:52 AM #42
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    Re: Interview Advice

    Well, didn't get the job as someone with more experience was found..

    Kinda depressing really

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    Re: Interview Advice

    oh well its not as if there aren't plenty of jobs in the industry going spare, try, try again!

    its not as if they said "well actually we're going for someone who's got less experiance" it was something you couldn't directly compete with!
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    Re: Interview Advice

    unlucky chap - sounds like you interviewed well though!
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    Re: Interview Advice

    I don't think I'd come come across very well in an interview like that but it sounds like you did a really good job

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    Re: Interview Advice

    Think I'll steer clear of training jobs for the time being, unless they're marked as entry level. Still, being philosophical about it, I did manage to get an interview despite missing all the requirements marked as "essential", so my CV writing skills obviously have improved (being able to show how my current experience related to the job requirement).

    Anyone got recomendation for IT related job sites?

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    Search for jobs in the UK. Online job search
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