• Review your current interviewing style, strength and weaknesses
• Understand the different types of interviews, including assessment centres and psychometrics tests
• Make significant improvements in your interviewing techniques
• Listen actively - listen for what is relevant  

Who should attend?
The workshop will benefit anyone who is currently job-hunting or planning to change jobs, and is thus likely to be interviewed by prospective employers.

Learning method
The workshop is highly practical and participative and draws on examples from participants' own experiences to ensure that practice interviews are realistic as possible. Each participant will be required to conduct role-play interviews, and will also learn from taking part in and observing other interviewers. Video recording, group discussion and intensive tutor support is used to provide participants with constructive feedback.

Workshop content

• Introduction and objectives
• Participants' experience of interviews so far
• Participants' expectations of interviews and concerns

• Interviews in the 21st century
• What interviewers can and cannot ask you
• Competencies - descriptions and examples
• Internal vs external interviews - the difference
• CVs
• Testing - assessment centres, psychometrics, and panels

• What should you know about the job/organisation?
• Researching the organisation
• Finding out about the job
• Answering the obvious questions
• Anticipating and dealing with unexpected questions
• Arming yourself with intelligent questions to ask them

• Preparing yourself practically, psychologically and physically
• First impressions
• Communicating effectively
• Dealing with anxiety
• Physical relaxation, voice and breath control

• Using a video camera participants record individual practice interviews plus feedback.
• Participants interview each other in pairs using a variety of questioning styles and the positive feedback model.