Overview

Conducting a successful interview is seen as an art form. Green Light’s philosophy is that preparation is the key to success when interviewing. Even the industries finest consultants have been known to falter at questions deemed to be straightforward. This is usually, widely down to a simple lack of quality preparation.

In order to avoid any slip ups which may cost you the job, we recommend that you take a few moments to read and follow the 4 stage pointer below:

1 - Know your potential new employer 2 - Question Time 3 - Why choose you? 4 - Close

Know your potential new employer

It is extremely important to do your homework on your potential new employer before you attend your interview. The simplest way of achieving this is by entering the company name into a search engine on the internet. Understand the company’s presence in its marketplace, along with its goals and ethos. Ensure that you are familiar with the market that they operate within and look to seek out their main competitors.

Green Light will provide you with useful tools and web links to assist you in sourcing such information.

Question Time

The interview is a 2-way process. It is an opportunity for you to learn more about the company and for the interviewer to learn more about you. With this in mind, Green Light has listed some of the more common questions which may be directed at you at interview.

What do you know about our organisation? What attracts you to work for our organisation? What attracts you to work in this business sector? What are your reasons for wanting to leave your current post? What do you enjoy most about your job? What motivates you? How do you motivate people to succeed? Where do your main strengths lie? What are your weaknesses? Please give an example of one or more of your main achievements at work Please give an example of a difficult situation which arose and explain how you dealt with it If you have gaps in CV, be prepared to justify How do you prioritise your workload? Do you prefer working alone or as part of team? Where do you see yourself in five years time? Do you have any other interviews lined up or job offers in place? Would you like to ask us any questions?

Why Choose you?

It is important to assume that a client will be interviewing numerous individuals for their vacancy. No matter how highly skilled you are, a client will always have their own criteria. It is imperative that you give a strong account of yourself in order to be extended an offer.

Areas of likely interest from an interview:

Your Style - Recruitment and Sales can be diverse environments and houses various personalities and attributes. Each and every style can achieve the goals of both candidates and clients; however, certain organisations require certain approaches. If this subject arises, be clear to detail which style of recruitment bests describes you.

Billing History - Provide a brief and honest overview of your monthly fee income to cover the last 2 years if possible and state where this income has been generated from.

Clients - Who are your key clients? Who was responsible for securing these client(s)? If it was you, how was this achieved? Who is your business relationship with inside of these companies? How much business have you completed with them? How do you maintain your relationship? What is your definition of a ‘good’ client?

Candidates - How do you source your candidates? How do you ensure maximum candidate retention? How do you vet and qualify a candidate and what compliance measures do you take (if applicable)? What is your definition of a ‘good’ candidate?

Close - Upon the completion of the interview, be sure that you thank your interviewer for their time in meeting with you. Assuming that the company and position on offer remains of interest to you, be sure to convey this fact to the interviewer. Ask them their thoughts and if the interest appears to be mutual, then ask what the next step will be. Upon leaving the interview site, please contact your Green Light Consultant with your feedback.

N.B: These questions are provided solely as a guide and do not form any part of a template for your interview

Be sure to plan your journey well, allowing plenty of time. Please be presentable, dressing in business attire. We recommend that smokers refrain from doing so prior to interview as this may cause offence to your interviewer. Remember, you never get a second chance to make a first impression!