hi everyone and welcome back to indeed
life in case you missed our first
episode we are going to be joining you
here week after week to connect directly
about what's happening right now in our
economy due to the Cova 19 crisis we
know that many of you have had your jobs
impacted by koban 19 and and that indeed
our mission is to help people get jobs
and that mission has never felt more
important than it does right now and
that brings me to our tip of the week
which is be prepared to be interviewed
by phone or video chat so I'll give you
a couple of tips on how you can prepare
I would recommend that you dress for
that interview as you would if you were
interviewing in person you can look
online and try to get a sense of the
company's culture of their dress code if
you're unsure business casual is usually
a safe route to go and you can also just
reach out to the HR manager to the HR
department that you've been talking to
and ask them about their company dress
code another tip is to test your audio
and video before the call if you are
someone who maybe you've never used
video conferencing software before I
would recommend that well in advance of
your interview go online download the
software play around with it make sure
you understand the features and that you
just really get comfortable with it
before that interview if you can ask a
friend to do a test call with you and
that way you can work through some of
those potential technical kinks ahead of
time many of you may be doing these
virtual interviews from home and because
you're doing that it can be tempting to
write down sort of a script for your
answer so that you'll have exactly what
you want to say in front of you when the
question is asked I would really
encourage you to try not to do that
instead practice your answers ahead of
time become familiar and sort of
comfortable with them in your mind and
maybe you can jot down just a couple of
key words or phrases that are gonna help
what you want to say but it's going to
feel much more conversational and
natural if you don't have a script in
front of you and finally try to find a
quiet space with minimal distractions
again this one can be tough right now or
many of us are home I am talking to you
from home right now and if you have
family there it can be difficult to find
that quiet space but as best you can
just try to arrange ahead of time with
your housemates with your family so that
you can have a couple of minutes of
quiet uninterrupted time for your
interview beyond those remote tips you
can really prepare as you would for nd
for any regular interview that you would
go on and let me give you just a couple
of specific interview prep tips first
research your potential employer indeed
company pages is a great place to start
for that if you haven't checked out
company pages before go to indeed.com if
you look in the upper sort of left hand
side you'll see a tab for company
reviews you can click on that search for
the name of the employer that you are
going to be interviewing with and that's
going to take you to in a lot of cases a
bunch of information about that employer
one of the things that you can find for
example is commonly asked to interview
questions for that particular employer
so it's a great source of information as
you're starting to to do your homework
you can also check out their the
company's website there's social media
posts and recent press releases also if
you know anyone who works for that
company or maybe they work in the same
industry they can be a great source of
information for you as well make it a
point to understand the company's goals
as you're doing this research and that
will allow you during the interview to
speak to the ways that you can really
help support those goals in your new
rule so a second interview tip prepare
questions to ask the interviewer so
often we think about being prepared for
the questions that the interview
interviewer is going to ask us and
that's a great thing to do
but many people often forget to do the
reverse of that which is to be ready
with a couple of questions that you can
ask the interviewer when they create
that opportunity for you to do so it is
a great way to show your interest to
show your analytical capabilities and
just to show that you've done your
homework let me share with you here are
a couple of questions that you might
consider asking an interviewer in an
interview you could ask how would you
describe the characteristics of someone
who would succeed in this role what is
the biggest challenge to success in this
role or you might ask how will my
performance be measured remember you are
interviewing the company at the same
time they are interviewing you so you
really want to think about which
questions will help you decide if this
rule is the right fit for you but I
would say with all of this most of all
just use the interview as a chance to
show your interviewer who you are and
help them understand why you believe
that you would be the best fit for that
role thank you so much for tuning in we
hope to see you soon
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