In the construction sector, your work ethic is as key as your experience and qualifications.
As a steel erector, you need to show the interviewer that you are passionate about working outdoors (in all weathers) that you have a good head for heights and how you are motivated by seeing a job completed.
You need to answer the job interview questions by stating how you possess excellent practical skills, that you can work as part of a team, and your vast experience in assembling steel sections and girders that make up the framework of buildings and engineering structures like bridges and tunnels.
The following job interview questions for a steel erector job interview will help you prepare for your next steel erector job interview
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Steel Erector Interview Questions
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 1 Please start by explaining your career as a steel erector?
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 2 why do you want to specialize as a steel erector?
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 3 how do you approach the task of lifting and guiding components into position with tower cranes
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 4 what is important to consider when you line up and level steelwork before bolting or welding it in place
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 5 give an example of when you have laid down metal decking, and fixing safety netting and edge rails as you build up the structure?
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 6 how would you identity potential hazards?
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 7 explain your understanding of regulatory guidelines?
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Steel Erector Job Interview Question 8 give an example of when you followed engineering instructions and plans and the outcome to this?
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 9 How do you handle working at heights?
Steel Erector Job Interview Question 10 what questions do you have for us?
When preparing for a pension adviser job interview you need to consider the job criteria for the desired position.
It is these criteria that will be redesigned as job interview questions. By understanding the criteria you can predict the job interview questions and successfully prepare your interview answers.
The key duty for a pension adviser is planning for financial security for when a client retires. For this role, you need to show throughout the job interview your interest in the financial markets and your knowledge for financial laws and legislation.
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Pension Advisor Job Interview Questions
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 1 Tell me about your experience in financial advising?
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 2 why do you want to specialize in pensions?
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 3 how do you go about researching investment funds?
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 4 what type of investment funds do you specialise in?
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 5 how would you design pension and benefits packages to best meet the client company’s needs?
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 6 how would you calculate the value of a pension fund?
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 7 explain your understanding of regulatory guidelines?
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Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 8 give an example of when you have researched an analysed financial information and explain how this knowledge had a direct impact on your investments?
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 9 how do you explain complex data clearly to customers?
Pension Adviser Job Interview Question 10 what questions do you have for us?
Confidence equals charisma and a charismatic interviewee is the one who steals the job offer
Don’t ever underestimate the power of a confident interviewee. Confidence is the packing for your gift and your gift of course is your unique selling point. People admire confidence, are spellbound by charisma and are naturally persuaded by those who ooze self-esteem.
This article will teach you how to increase your job interview confidence, confidence that will win you the job offer.
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Job Interview Confidence #1
Confidence is an emotional state. The natural state for most in the job interview is anxiety.
This technique is quick and powerful and will spin your anxiety into a feeling of extreme confidence
First think about being in a job interview. As you imagine this situation, focus on the feeling of anxiety inside of you. Notice where this anxious feeling originates from in your body; your stomach, feet, chest, head
As you focus on this feeling of anxiety you will feel it move inside of you, you will feel it spinning. Imagine you can see this spinning feeling and give it a colour.
Imagine pushing the feeling externally. See it spinning in front of you.
Flip this spinning feeling back on itself so it spins in the opposite direction, spin it faster and faster, faster still until it changes colour.
Once it changes colour, push it back inside of you replacing the old feeling. Spin it faster and faster inside of you until you start to feel the feeling of confidence spreading throughout the whole of your body.
Do this before your job interview and you will double your job interview confidence
Job Interview Confidence #2
All job interview coaches will tell you to use examples and stories to sell your skills and unique selling points. This is a great strategy to adopt.
Using stories has a confident side effect, it makes you feel more confident. Anxious interviewees have an external perspective, they focus on the employer’s reaction. By using stories you will naturally go inside yourself, imagining the event from your own eyes as you dictate the story-line.
When you have this internal focus your fear evaporates and you focus on the emotions attached to the story – which will be positive as the story or example will be one of you being at your best
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Job Interview Confidence #3
Put yourself into awkward situations
Confidence comes from familiarity. This is why most people are anxious in job interviews, this random activity – the job interview, is so uncommon that your frame of reference is one of fear. By making, being the focus of attention, a common experience, you eradicate the fear through exposure.
Attend public speaking groups, approach and talk to strangers, go to speed dating, as for directions…anything to get you speaking more. To key skills, you will want to learn and develop is improv speaking and debating
What 3 Things You Must Do Prior To The Job Interview
As an Online Interview Coach, I’m always surprised by the lack of job interview preparation that most interviewees undertake.
If you only prepare for a job interview for 45 minutes or under then this is the reason why you fail a job interview. Successful interviewees, from my research, on average spend around 4-5 hours on interview preparation.
But even the interviewees who spend a longer duration on job interview preparation often prepare badly. This article will give you a few tips to advance your job interview techniques.
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Pre-Job Interview Preparation 1
Clarify your selling points.
The job interview is a 45-minute sales pitch. As with all sales techniques, the key strategy to sell anything is to give a solution to a problem. What does the employer require from you? What is the essential criteria for this position? What unique value can you add to the team?
The first preparation task you should always undertake prior to the job interview is clarifying what your sales point is? This sales point has to be something the employer requires, needs or can’t do without.
In addition to having sales points, you need to create real examples of how you have used this skill, quality or experience.
Pre-Job Interview Preparation 2
Anticipate the Interviewers concerns.
Even if you had a list of key selling points, you will only be employed if the employer 100% feels that you will fit in with the team and if they believe you will make a real impact within the organisation.
If the employer has any doubts, you are likely to miss out on the exciting opportunity. Think about your application; your work history, qualifications and skills. Also, review your prepared job interview answers. On reflection put yourself in the shoes of the interviewer – what concerns would they have about hiring you?
Maybe you have a gap in your CV, maybe you lack essential qualifications or experiences. You need to prepare answers to any potential question or doubt the employer may have. In the 73 rules for influencing the interview, we use techniques such as re-framing the interviewer’s negative opinion.
It doesn’t matter how you change the interviewer’s mind as long as you leave the interview with the interviewer being full of desire instead of doubt.
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Pre-Job Interview Preparation 3
Create a powerful induction.
When you met anyone the human mind will within milliseconds create an impression about the stranger in front of them. In a job interview, this impression can be the reason for the successful or unsuccessful interview outcome.
You need to prepare for this first encounter. Prepare your body language, posture, clothes, stance, smile, your opening induction including the words, tone and volume of your key communication.
Even go one step further, plan your small talk and prepare everything to help increase likability.
NLP Embedded Commands – how to use in a Job Interview
NLP embedded commands are used by hypnotherapists to make a phobic no longer afraid of a spider. NLP embedded commands are used by master influencers to con unsuspecting public. NLP embedded commands are used by mentalists, such as Darren Brown to get you to do whatever they want.
As you can see the power behind NLP embedded commands is sot string that you can take command of any situation. These skills are highly transferable to the job interview. The goal of the interviewee is to create desire; you want the employer to want you.
This article will teach you what an NLP embedded command is, how to set up an embedded command and how to use NLP embedded commands in your job interview answer.
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NLP Embedded Commands Broken Down
An embedded command is a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Hypnosis technique for “planting” a thought (state, process, or experience) within the mind of another person without the person’s conscious awareness.
The embedded command is broken into three sections;
The set-up
First, you need to set up the embedded command (this set up hides the command in the structure of a sentence (or interview answer).
“When you..”
“You can…”
“The more you…”
“You want to..”
“If you were to…”
The Command
Second, you need to add the “Command” (this gets the interviewer to do X without them knowing why they are doing X) .
“Feel….”
“Think about…”
“Imagine…”
“Notice…”
“Remember..”
State, process or experience
Thirdly finish the embedded command with a State, Process or Experience:
“A change of mind”
“Excitement”
“That I am right”
“You agree”
“Joy”
Embedding the Embedded Command in a Job Interview Answer
When using the embedded command in a job interview you only need to focus on 2 key things.
First think about the desired outcome – what process, state or experience do you want to employer/interviewer to feel?
Second when you state the “Command” and “SPE” raise your voice, or slightly change your tone, or leave a short pause before and after the command. This allows the subconscious to process the command without conscious awareness.
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Common asked Interview questions and example embedded command answers
Example common interview questions:
tell me about yourself
what are your strengths
what are your weaknesses
To answer these commonly asked job interview questions, start your answer before using the embedded command.
Tell me about yourself
I have over 20 years of experience in this sector. My key strengths include X, Y and Z (add your own strengths here) as you will notice I am highly passionate about this role and it is this passion along with my experience that has made me highly successful. My key achievements include (add your key achievement) Overall I have a range of skills and experiences that will be highly useful to you and your organisation and when you need me to step up and take on any extra task, you will know I am reliable and flexible.
What are your strengths?
My previous manager often said that I was highly motivated with everything I did. But for me, that is just having a good work ethic. I consider a strength something that others don’t possess. If I had to pick one of my key strengths (this presupposes that you have more than one key strength) I would choose my ability to turn around projects on the blink of failing into a success. You will agree with me that this is no easy feat. The way I approach this task is by analyzing the project brief, the successes and what hasn’t worked. This overview tells me what I first need to concentrate on. If you feel that I would fit in with your team, this is a skill we could collaborate on together, sharing the same successes I have had with previous organisations.
What are your weaknesses?
Everyone has weaknesses. If you offer me the job you will know that I am the type of person who will work hard to overcome any weaknesses that I recognise. In fact, I often search for any areas of development as I see this as the perfect opportunity to develop my skills and knowledge. In my last company, I had never used their database before, so I spent time reading the manuals, being trained through other members of staff and practicing. In quick succession, due to having strong ICT skills, I become skilled in this and was asked to teach other new recruits.
There is a current demand for social workers, but even with this need for more social workers, competition for social worker positions are high.
Employers are looking for a particular criteria when it comes to recruiting social workers.
In the job interveiw be prepared to evidence common social worker duties including; conducting interviews with families, following regulations, complying with data protection laws and child protection regulations.
Not only do social worker employers want to hear how you meet the job criteria they also look at an applicant’s persona; can they handle stress, will they build rapport which acting professionally and can they make hard decisions.
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Social Worker Job Interview Assessments
There is now a number of assessments, as well as the traditional interview question and answer sessions, for social worker recruitment.
Your first task, if it is not explained in interview offer email, is to find out what assessments you will be asked to complete.
Often you will be given a number of cases that you have to prioritise before explaining your reasons behind your decision.
Some social worker interviews will invite clients to be on the interview panel, this is to check your communication and interaction with the client group.
Social work is a stressful job due to the demands put on you. To check how you manage stress you maybe given a group exercise to solve a problem in a particular time frame.
The idea behind this interview task is not to see if your solve the problem or not, rather they are looking at your approach to problem solving.
Key skills you need to discuss during the interview
As an experienced (or recently qualified) social worker you will have a wide variety of skills and experiences.
It can be challenging deciding which skills and experiences to highlight as part of your interview answers.
We have met with a wide range of social worker recruitment managers and asked what they deem most important.
They said the key social worker skills you must discuss are;
assessment skills
assessing risk
demonstrating your values and work ethic
giving real-life examples
explaining the theory behind your answers
managing stress
prioritizing
your under standing of serious case studies
explaining how what you do has a positive impact
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10 Common asked social worker interview questions
give me overview of your social work experience to date
what social worker qualifications d o you have
how do you prioritise your caseload
discuss a real child protection case you were involved in and the outcome to the case
how do you manage your time between recording cases on the database and working with your caseload
what legislation are you familiar with and how does it affect your role
how to you continue to develop your skills
how would you handle a situation where a client you were working with told you that they fancied you
what are the first things you check for when you start to work with a new family
In the job interview book “the 73 rules for influencing the interview” I talked and taught you how to increase your communication confidence and how to influence the interviewer using words.
This mixture of persuading with confident communication is the desired skill that increases your chance of being offered a position. This skill can be developed through public speaking.
How many times have you been influenced or moved by a powerful orator? How has a charismatic speaker motivated you? How did confident communication get you to change your opinion?
Being able to persuade with words is the desired skill of any interviewee. These same techniques are being used right now by public speakers.
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Talk With Purpose
When learning to public speak one of the first lessons you learn is to talk with purpose.
This is a lesson you need to take with you to the job interview. One of the biggest interview killers is the way an interviewee communicates. Often, due to nervousness, the interviewee talks without thought, they drone on and on about everything apart from the answer to the asked question.
When asked an interview question, first think to yourself “what skill, quality or experience do they want me to discuss with this interview question?” Remember to think back to the job spec
All job interview questions, even curved ball job interview questions, are asked to uncover specific desired criteria. By focusing in on these criteria you can speak with purpose, keeping your interview answer on point.
Create a Strong Structure
It is easy to get lost in your own interview answer.
Have you ever found yourself asking the interviewer if you have answered their question? This is because we answer interview questions with no structure.
In public speaking you are taught to 1; state what you are going to say 2; say what you are going to say 3; summaries what you said
This is a great structure for getting your point across and keeping your interview answer short and on point. In the job interview, you can adopt this same (or a similar version) structure. Start by 1; saying you have desired criteria 2; give an example of desired criteria 3; summaries by stating that these criteria are your key strength
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Use more than Just Words
Great public speakers inspire, motivate and enthuse the audience not just with words, but also with their tone, body language, gestures, stage presence, stories, metaphors, rhetorical devices, facial expressions and the use of props (maybe a PowerPoint presentation)
Confident interviewees use these same well-tuned skills (that you can easily learn from an interview coach or by attending a public speaking group) A remember-able interviewee, the one who is offered the job, creates an emotional connection with the interviewer by communicating with all their senses, creating intrigue and using public speaking persuasion techniques.
Whether you are a job applicant trying to get an acceptable salary, a salesperson trying to win over a client or a business owner setting up a contract with a vendor, negotiating is a skill you must have to get the results you want. If you aren’t an effective negotiator, you will be at the mercy of the other person. Fortunately, this is a skill that can be developed.
Know Your Desired Outcome
Many people enter negotiations without a clear goal. They aren’t sure what they want or even what they will accept. Before you start any negotiations with the other party, know what you hope the end result will be and your cut-off point.
For example, say you are negotiating a salary with an employer who has just offered you a job. You would like to make $40,000 per year, so that is your desired result. Since negotiating is all about give and take, you also need to know the lowest amount you will accept. In this instance, you are willing to go as low as $30,000. This means your area for negotiations is between the two amounts.
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Back Your Request with Facts
If you want to get your desired salary, you must show why you deserve it. Perhaps that is the industry standard or you have more skills or education than the average person in this position. You must be able to prove your side of the negotiation.
The same holds true when trying to win over a new customer. You must be able to prove why your product or service is better. You cannot hope to win them over to your side without using logic and sound reasoning.
Be Clear
Whether you are negotiating a price with a customer or a contract with a business partner, you must be clear on your terms. This includes stating everything in simple terms so there is no misunderstanding and speaking clearly so they can understand what you’re saying.
In today’s global economy, it’s not uncommon to be working with people from all over the world. The difference in accents and speech patterns as well as the words used make it more difficult to be understood. If you do a lot of negotiating, you may want to hire an accent reduction coach to help you learn to enunciate more clearly in your business meetings.
It also helps to speak in short sentences where you get to the point. While some negotiators use long speeches and complicated words to confuse the other person, this doesn’t usually lead to the results you want. You don’t want to just win at the actual negotiation, you want the other person to be satisfied with the outcome for a successful long-term relationship.
Negotiating is a skill anyone can learn. From hiring a business speech coach to writing down your goals, you can learn how to become an effective negotiator who gets the results they want. This is a life skill as well as one that will benefit you in any business.
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The key preparation for a job interview is to create a list of sample curveball interview questions. From this list, you can create strong job interview answers by tailoring your experience, skills and qualities to that of the job specification.
Your sample interview answers need to do three things; one – inform the interviewer that you have the required skills, two – show enthusiasm and passion, three – highlight a unique selling point.
This is even more important when you are asked curveball interview questions, these are job interview questions that sound random, but in actual fact have a hidden meaning.
Are You Making these Job Interview Mistakes Without Knowing You Are Making Them?
As an interview coach in Manchester, I have completed thousands of mock job interviews, analysed the common interview errors and helped failed applicants create job interview success.
This is because most interviewees make mistakes in the job interview without even realising they are making these common interview errors. Have you ever walked out of a job interview feeling on top of the world, as the interview went better than you thought it would, only then to be sent an interview rejection email?
By being aware of these 3 common job interview errors you will then have the conscious choice to make a change in your next job interview. Remember if you continue to interview in the same way, you will get the same result.
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Job Interview Mistake 1
Talking about the organisations achievements, not yours.
One of the biggest mistakes interviewees make is not making it clear what they did to achieve a successful outcome. A large amount of job interview questions will be “give me an example of….”
Often, the best way to answer this is question is with a story or example. The problem here is that many interviewees use generic stories that are ambiguous in terms of who created a successful outcome.
When answering these types of interview questions you need to make it really clear that it was you who
1) had the idea
2) took action
3) made an impact on the positive outcome.
Job Interview Mistake 2
Focus on the little things.
Many job applicants only spend around 45 minutes preparing for the job interview, compared to successful interviewees, who on average, spend around 4-5 hrs.
Due to this lack of preparation, many failed interviewees, only focus on the big task, IE Googling common asked interview questions, reviewing their CV, etc.
With more interview preparation time you can take your job interview to the next level by focusing on the little things.
It is these little tweaks that have a real impact on the job interview. The tweaks could include changing the words used in your answers for power words, adding gestures to your answers creating real impact and having a focus on how you use your body language to complement the tone of your job interview answers.
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Job Interview Mistake 3
Add value
We know that most successful job applicants are successful because throughout the job interview they highlight past experiences and successes. But what is missing, or what you can add (that has a massive influence in the job interview) that others don’t is how you can add value to their organisation.
It is taken as read, that by stating you have done X, that you will do X in the new company. But to influence people, to make the interviewer have a real emotional attachment to you, you need to state that “if I worked for you I could implement the same process which will increase your profits while saving overhead cost”
By stating what you do is more powerful than stating what you have done.
