Feel More Confident in Job Interviews
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Interviewers are tricky places, and more often then not the interviewee does not know how their interview is going. Imagine you could read the interviewers micro facial expressions, so you knew if your answer was hitting the mark, imagine you could just by looking at the employer you knew if they liked you or not.
Micro expressions are hard to hide which means you will really know what the other person is thinking, just by looking at their face and this Article will teach you how to read the interviewers micro expressions and later you can participate in an interactive micro expression test yourself.
Micro expressions happen so quick and are so instant that if you the micro reader blink you can miss them. This is why reading micro expressions is a key to understanding how someone really feels, as the subject often doesn’t know that they have made them – micro movements are made through unconscious movements of the muscles
1. Sadness – narrowed eyes, eyebrows together, down-pointed mouth, and a pulling up of the chin
2. Anger – lowered eyebrows, tense lips and eye lids and wrinkled forehead
3. Contempt – single raised corner of the mouth, slight tightening of the eyelids (sneer)
4. Disgust – raising of upper lip, narrowed eyes, wrinkled nose and narrowed eye brows
5. Surprise – dropped jaw, relaxed lips and mouth, widened eyes and slightly raised eyelids and eyebrows
6. Fear – eyes and mouth open rather widely, eyebrows raised and nostrils flared
7. Happiness – raising corner of lips and cheeks, narrowing eyes to produce “crow’s feet” on the outside of each eye
Tim Roth (above) Stars as Dr Cal Lightman in the hit series Lie to Me, a great show where Dr Lightman and his team tackle a weekly mystery by reading micro expressions, body language and verbal cues. A series well recommend by Employment King
To become an expert you need to practice, re-read the emotion explanations above and watch this facial expression video on YouTube Facial Expression Tutorial by Khappucino
Go over this video a couple of times, to increase your facial reading abilities.
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As with all job positions, you need to target your application; if the employer requires a seasonal employee, explain that you are applying for a seasonal worker, this is easily done on the covering letter
Look the part; if you’re applying for an elf or Father Christmas role, turn looking similar to character you are portraying. This doesn’t mean you need to turn in Santa outfit, but you could turn up with a full grown beard and a plump tummy this way you will give the interviewer a visual representation of how you will fit in to this role
Open all hours; employers recruit seasonal staff because during these busy times, especially leading up to Christmas and the Boxing Day sales employers open for over 16 hours a day, which means they need to recruit people who can work these long hours. Make it clear that you are willing to work Christmas week, Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. So flexibility and make it clear you know how busy the workplace will be, now the employer is satisfied that you won’t quit half way through the week.
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Education is an Investment – with the increasing (perceived) debt for students, many potential university pupils are questioning if they should jump straight into the job market or accept the (perceived) debt they will intake through the education system?
(and you only pay back 9% on anything you earn above this amount)
To my surprise, while sat at my desk a colleague, Gareth ran through the office naked! Gareth was always the clown, but I thought he had gone too far this time, he was bound to get the sack.
I was baffled when Gareth later told, me that our boss had given him several weeks paid leave to recover from the stress of the job. The truth is employers hires us because they want to make money. But employers don’t want to fire us because they’re scared they will lose money.
You can’t walk down a high street without seeing a lawyer’s office with a sign outside “unfairly dismissed? No win, no fee” employers are just too scared to let us go, it’s the same reason why you can’t use the office stapler without a risk assessment, employers are all too aware that they may get rid of the office clown one week, and see him perform the following month in court
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The retail sector is one of the largest recruiting job sectors in the world employing people from retail professionals to students looking for part time work. For many they don’t realise the vast amount of positions in retail and that most large retailers have fantastic staff benefits and a great internal promotional opportunities.
Employees either enter at graduate level generally trained in Business Management or fall into this career, gaining promotion from the shop floor to management positions, generally gaining a promotion every 3-4 years, with many companies offering internal training opportunities to the right candidate. Many people more from customer service assistant, cashier, team leader, shop manager, area supervisor
What surprising is the amount of retail positions available from the shop assistant to store manager. Other jobs include buyer, designer, graphic designer, accountant, window designer, driver, warehouse staff, marketer, administrator. In the retail sector, many of job positions are available, but these days with development in technology, the internet and Smartphone’s many low skilled retail jobs are vanishing and high skilled jobs are increasing.
As an example more supermarkets are using self serve check outs which will reduce low skilled cashier jobs and more people buy goods online increasing high skilled internet marketing positions
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With advances in technology and global competition, job sectors are changing at a rapid pace, requiring organisations to look at new innovative ways at working. This also includes businesses looking at new sources of income through offering new products, services and diversifying their market.
For some employees new changes can be hard to initiate but for the clever professional looking at lateral career advancement, gaining that all important promotion quicker then could be expected. The following steps will allow you to advance your career by simply embracing the new changes in your organisation and job sector.
As you hear about the new initiatives in your industry, you need to quickly become an expert these developments, from offering anew service and understanding the market for a new product. A couple of days searching on the internet and researching in the library can give you enough knowledge to sound like you have the expertise to gain a job offer. Embrace the new changes as the rumours spread about the forthcoming changes and let us know about your expertise on this new development. With office gossip the key communication tool in most organisations, your expertise will soon be known to the senior management, if not during your next meeting let them know.
Offer advice, give feedback and research this new initiative and make accurate predictions, soon your senior management team will be coming to you first for advice. Take pride in your work and knowledge and keep researching and building up your own expertise, don’t fall into the trap off dumbing down your new found wisdom even when other colleagues on your level start talking behind your back, as this is a sign that your hard work is coming to fruition, as competitive employees will be jealous of your new found status in the company.
With people at all levels asking for your opinion on how to take advantage of their new initiative, you have come, in the eyes of the organisation a powerful asset. This last stage is simple, just start to act as if you have been promoted to the position you require; complete additional task, analysis statistics and make predictions, research competition and market trends. Set up meetings to discuss your new founding’s and offer a detailed plan of action. When your ideas have been agreed, offer to take charge, give additional insights and give them suitable names of employees that you will need as part of your team. With this agreed offer to brief them and start to implement the action plan, in this way you are seen as the project manager. As your hard work starts to increase income you can approach your line manager for a well deserved pay rise.
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The interview for some is one of their most uncomfortable experiences they will have, having to sell your skills to outwit the other applicants, to a panel of interviewers. Many applicants know they can add value to the new organisation, with their skill base embedded in there job sector not in passing job interviews.
With experience on both sides of the table I understand the importance of standing out from the interview crowd, but make sure you stand positively not negatively. After a long day of interviewing the last candidate sat down and introduced himself, they say that interviewers make their mind up in the first 5-10 minutes of the interview, but in reality people make generalisations in the first 5-10 seconds. I immediately formed a negative opinion of this guy, maybe it was his lack of eye contact or the sweat stains under his armpits, for whatever reason I didn’t think he would suit our team, and the interview prove me right. With most interviewees like this, you quickly forget them, but 10 years later and can still remember him, because he stood out from the crowd. It took the whole interview for this applicant to stand out from the crowd, which he achieved as I was walking him to the exit, when he turned around, and said confidently for the first time throughout the whole interview “can you please refund my bus ticket” I was so shocked that I actually took hold of the bus ticket, and put my hand in my trouser pocket with the change in it, until I looked at the date and realised the daily bus ticket was three days out of date.
Standing out from the crowd will get you remembered and when used right can be used to your interview advantage. I worked recently with one client, who had a large skill base but often failed in job interviews. She was so frustrated that I coached her to try a new technique. As the interview was progressing, she again realised that her answers were not hitting the mark and the interviewer looked a little bored. During her the next interview answer she used the killer line, that would make her stand out and change the interviewers opinion of her forever. “I know you have been interviewing all day and are probably feeling a little tiered, and to be honest with you I know I can add value to your team, but I also know that I’m not the best at interviews. So, my proposal is this, I will give you £400 if you let me work for you for a week for free. If I’m as good as I know I am, you will be highly impressed and will want to hire me, if not you get to keep the £400. I know this sounds a little out the box, but I also know that you will be highly impressed with my work ethic and skill base”
She was offered a job, without having to gamble the £400. It doesn’t matter how you make yourself stand out positively in the job interview, but this is the key to winning more job offers as employers want to know how much added value you can bring to the team.
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Humans like to know how things work. We also have a tendency to make things better and faster. It is this desire that has put man on the moon and created the amazing feats of engineering such as the hoover dam. With a global increase having a more eco and green planet, engineers will be desired in the future. Whether you focus on chemical, nuclear, electrical or aeronautical, engineers need to be highly skilled and qualified. This is one job sector that is on the increase, so for all you mathematical and analytic individuals this career could be for you.
Everyone house and office has one, we even have it on our phones. The internet is vast with people accessing their bank account on their mobile phone. As history has proven with many previous innovative technological advances, some people will try to exploit it for their own benefit. In the case of the internet, worldwide employers will be hiring skilled online security guards to fight against the increasing cyber crime rates. Business, police forces and secret services will all be hiring employees skilled in computer sciences in the near future – if not now.
Even with the recent global economy taking a recent plummet, money talks. Business, governments and the general public all need qualified professionals, to look after, invest and advice us on all our financial needs. Physical money may vanish in the near future, but online cash (or points!) will still pay our mortgages, holidays and weekly shopping. Financiers and accountants have been around for hundreds of years and will still be here in another hundred(s) years.
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No successful organisation will always be popular with its staff; the occasional bruising encounter with management is an inevitable part of working life for most.
Far worse is the experience of an unlucky few who are regularly undermined or bullied by managers and supervisors; repeatedly being overlooked for promotion, humiliation in front of clients, formal warnings for trivial misdemeanors. Your employer’s behavior can become intolerable and you may conclude that you are being forced out.
This situation can lead to a “constructive dismissal”; where an employee resigns due to a serious breach of contract by their employer that they believe left them no choice but to do so. The breach can be of an “implied term” of your employment contract, like the requirement that your employer should avoid damaging the relationship of trust and confidence with you. A serious breach might include your pay being withheld, being made to work in dangerous conditions, or harassment.
So, you believe your employer’s behavior is a serious breach of contract. Can you joyously hand in your notice, anticipating an award of damages for constructive dismissal?
Not yet; you should first try to resolve the problem internally, even if it seems futile and likely to prolong your misery. An Employment Tribunal is less likely to accept your claim for constructive dismissal if you resign without taking matters up with your employer first.
First, make a complaint on an “informal” basis (although technically informal make it a serious discussion and set aside a specific time). Ideally, have the meeting with neutral staff. For example, if your line manager is bullying you meet with their manager or with HR.
If this is unsuccessful initiate a formal grievance process. The standard procedure is normally in the company handbook, HR manual or your employment contract. If your employer’s procedure is unsatisfactory or nonexistent, consult the ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) Code of Practice. This document is frequently referred to in employment law and sets out the minimum standards that a grievance process should follow.
You’ll probably feel nervous and emotional during the meeting. You may want to write down what you intend to say, and if you wish you can read this out in the meeting. It’s often a good idea to invite a colleague for moral support and as a witness to the meeting.
Hopefully the internal process achieves the desired outcome. If not, now is the time to consider resigning. Needless to say, you should consult ACAS or your trade union and get independent legal advice before you hand in your notice. Once you have confirmed that you have exhausted the amicable resolution process and have a strong case for constructive dismissal don’t delay in resigning. The Employment Tribunal might consider that you “accepted” your employer’s breach of contract if you continue to work for some time after it takes place.
A final piece of advice: keep a diary of all the relevant incidents and retain your notes and correspondence from the grievance process. Constructive dismissal claims are known for being hard to prove. Make sure that if you have to resign, you are able to provide a detailed and convincing explanation of why your employer’s conduct left you no choice.
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