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Types of Interview?

How Many Types of Job Interview Can You Think Off?

 

As many of you will already know, there are many different types and styles of job interviews.  You need to understand why employers use different interviews to help you prepare for them. The explanation of each below is to give you an overview of the different ‘types’ of interviews, if you are invited to one of these different ‘types’ of interviews you will now know more about them and will feel more confident about attending them

 

  • Screening Interview

A screening interview is a brief interview used by employers to quickly and efficiently eliminate unsuitable or unqualified interviewees. This is usually carried out over the telephone and tends to focus on confirming and clarifying that you have to essential minimum requirements needed for the job you are applying for (Essential requirements will be found in the Job spec of the application pack).  Employers use this to save time and money during the interview process.

  • Speculative On the spot Interview

As we said above if you apply for a job speculatively by walking into a business, you have to be prepared to have an On the Spot Interview. This interview will be informal and unstructured as the interview/manager would have not prepared any questions and again wants to see if you have the minimum requirements for the job you are applying for before offering you a full interview.

  • Telephone/webcam interview

You are likely to have a telephone interview for all jobs that requires you to use the telephone as the main job duty. Telephone and webcam interviews can be used when the interviewee cannot attend an initial interview (Perhaps due to the job role being overseas) This type of interview again is used to save recruitment costs and in order to decide which candidates they want to interview face to face.

  • Face to Face Interview

This is the most common interview; the interview can sometimes be informal as only one person is involved. The interviewer will often have a series of prepared questions designed to find out if you have the skills, qualities and knowledge for the position you are applying for. Often the manager or HR representative will carry out this interview.

  • Panel interviews

In this type of interview you will be questioned by several people making up the panel. The actual number of interviewers can vary depending on the company (some companies use two person panel interviews because the manager has not interviewed before) On the panel they may have an expert/manager who knows the job you are applying for and will coordinate the interview and questions. Or the panel (normally when this is a panel of 2 or 3) will co-ordinate the questions between them. Ensure you look at each member of the panel and involve them during the interview.

  • Follow Up Interview

This often happens when you are applying with large companies who have a big recruitment drive on. Only a small number of interviewees will be asked to attend a follow up interview. If you are one of them then this is a great sign -it shows you that an employer is very interested in you!

This extract was taken from The Secrets of Employment

  • Group Interview

This is an informal interview with a large number of other interviewees often for customer service based roles. You will be asked discuss a topic or complete a problem solving exercise. A group interview can last anywhere from two hours to a whole day. Interviewers will be watching for your contribution and your role within the group. Consider what skills they would like to see from you. As a natural leader you may be great at organising and getting the task in hand done but you might need to be aware of using your listening skills and allowing others to talk.

  •  The Sequential Interview

Sequential interviews are where an applicant is interviewed in stages. You may have to complete certain tests including Literacy and Numeracy. You may be asked to attend interviews with several people, with each interviewer asking questions relating to a different aspect of the job role.

As you can see there are several interviews that you may be asked to attend, as long as you are prepared and understand the job you are applying for you will do well. As all the questions/exercises/test you are asked to complete will be relevant to the job you are applying for.

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How to Tell if Someone is Lying

Spotting Liars for Skill for Interveiwers 

We have had such a good response from the recent article How to read micro facial expressions with people wanting to learn more about spotting liars, that we have written a follow-up article to teach you how to spot liars.

WARNING: Before going any further and learning how to really know if someone is lying to you, you first need to ask yourself – do I really want to know? Remember sometimes ignorance is bliss and knowing that someone is lying to you can HURT you.

The techniques you are about to learn are powerful and are used in specialist industries such as: police force, security experts, M15, immigration officials and with CEO’s in multi-million-pound business deals

Lie to Me – The Basics

As mention in the last article, how to read micro facial expressions, when reading people you need to look for clusters and don’t make opinions on just one expression or body movement.

Body language – when being truthful people will use a wide range of hand expressions and movements as people often talk with their hands. Liars will unconsciously limit their arm movements looking stiffer than natural

Touching Lips – when lying we unconsciously try and stop the lie from coming out by covering our mouths, liars will also touch their nose or ear when lying.

Red Faced – liars tend to get hot “hot under the collar” is a common phrase used. Liars can become red-faced or may play with their collar to cool down, others will scratch their neck when lying – remember look for clusters

Moving Away – liars will often feel uncomfortable lying to your face and will unconsciously turn their body away from yours wanting to get away quickly

Micro Expressions – liars will give away their lie through micro-expressions (for full details click the link above) when faking an emotion the expression is often limited – look at these two pictures of the man smiling:

 

Which one is faking?

The picture on the right is a true smile, the secret here is the crow’s feet on the eyes- to learn more about facial expressions click the above links or read this book by the expert in facial expressions Paul Ekman (above) – CLICK IMAGE

Reading People

Timing – often a liar will say something and then follow this up with an emotion or gesture, while truthful people will say something and make the gesture at the same time.  Check this at Christmas when people are opening their presents they will say “I love it” and then make a smile – a sign that they don’t truly “love it”

Out of Time – Gestures are often off pace when lying, emotional displays are delayed and then suddenly stop

Defensive – a guilty person will often get defensive in conversation, whereas innocent people often become offensive

Building Barriers – Liars will often want to hide away from you, protecting them and will build barriers between you and them; this could be sitting on a chair the wrong way round so the back of the chair is a barrier between you and them. They also use a book or other object and hold this in front of them.

Hearing Lies

Copy Cat – liars will often copy the exact words you use to answer a question “did you steal the spare change?” Liar: “No, I did not steal the spare change”

Sticking to the Facts – truthful people will often tell a story and as the story is progressing will naturally go off on a tangent, liars will tell a “well-planned story” in a more factual way with any additional “add-ons”

Not Answering the Question – many people don’t like to lie, and instead of lying will answer a different question or just imply an answer

Difficult Silences – Liars will often want to fill silences

Distancing Language – liars will often use distancing language, with Bill Clinton famously saying “I did not have sex with that women”
rather than saying her name, he distanced himself using the word “that” to avoid thinking about the person/situation.

Eye Accessing Cues 

When asking a person a question you can watch the person’s eye movements to detect if the person is accessing an emotion or remembering or constructing a sound or image.

To practice this, ask a friend the questions below and check their eye movement against the chart (for some the eye accessing cues will be opposite) When questioning a liar, you can ask the person several truths to gain a baseline and then ask them a question to see if they are lying (accessing constructed images)

Remember as we all detecting lie techniques you must look for clusters.

Looking Up and to the right-Visual Remembered

What is the colour of the shirt you wore yesterday?

Which of your friends has the shortest hair?

Looking up and to the left-Visual Constructed

What would your room look like if it were painted yellow with big purple
circles?

Can you imagine the top half of a tiger on the bottom half of an elephant?

Looking to the Right (towards ears) -Auditory Remembered

What does your best friend’s voice sound like?

Which is louder, your doorbell or your telephone?

Looking to the Left (towards ears) – Auditory Constructed

What will your voice sound like in 10 years?

What would it sound like if you played your two favorite pieces of music at the same time?

Looking down to the Right – Auditory Digital

What is something you continually tell yourself?

What are your thoughts about this article?

Looking Down to the Left-Kinaesthetic

What does it feel like to walk barefoot on a cool sandy beach?

What does it feel like when you rub your fingers on sandpaper?

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I Keep Failing Job Interviews

Do you keep failing job interviews?

 

Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” This is true for many job hunters who continuously fail job interviews, they continue to make the same mistakes in every job interview.

Employment King has teamed up with leading employers to discover What type of job interviewees continuously fail job interviews and our research has found that 10 types of job interviewees will always be refused job offers from all job interviews. Read this article and make sure you don’t fall into any of these 10 categories.

If you want to win more job offers through passing  job interviews, download this mini interview guide for FREE and don’t fall into one of these 10 categories; 10 people who will never pass a job interview.

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Are you one of these 10 people who will never pass a job interview

If you have a job interview coming up and you feel scared and nervous, what can you do? I agree some job interviewers can ask some Tricky Questions which means you need to know Killer Answers to each interview question Tricky Questions, Killer Answers

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How to Read Micro Facial Expressions

Today you will learn how to read micro expressions, this means you will have the power to really understand what is going on in someones mind, as micro expressions are hard to hide which means you will really know what the other person is thinking, just by looking at their face.

  • This Article will teach you how to read micro expressions and later you can participate in an interactive micro expression test

Research into micro expressions is being extended, as psychologist like Paul Ekman (the leading expert in micro expressions and emotions) has proven that certain micro expressions such as Anger, Contempt and Happiness are universal. These studies will help people in professions such as Airport Security, Police, MI5, Teachers, Coaches and a whole range of other industries. Why? Because if you can read micro expressions you can understand how the person is really feeling, which is Different to how they say they are feeling.

I agree people can fake smiles and other emotions, but 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

How to Read Micro Expressions

 

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.

 

So, back to reading micro expressions. To become an expert you need to practice, re-read the emotion explanations and then 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 and then take a Micro Facial Reading Expression Test

How did you do? Remember the more you practice the better you will become and as with all mind/body/language reading you need to look for clusters and not to make judgments on single instances

If you want to learn more about Emotions and Facial Expression, learn from the master himself Paul Ekman, read his amazing book Emotions Revealed. Buy the Book Now by clicking the image below:

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Successful Women

Successful Women – why are some people successful, but others are not? Can You Be More Successful?

 

I always feel inspired by successful people in all disciplines from sports to movie stars, from great scientist to successful business people, especially those people who came from nothing and motivated themselves to be their best.

 

We have heard of many successful men who came from nothing, which is why this article highlights 3 highly successful and powerful women, who made it through their own determination.

 

My research highlighted two key similarities that all successful people posses;

 

  1. All successful people have a vision or goal, but unlike others, successful people truly believe they will achieve their goal and when they visualize this goal they can see their outcome from the eyes of their future successful self. What does this mean? By being associated to their outcome (seeing their outcome from their future successful self) they feel as they have already achieved their goal and use this feeling to continue to feel motivated compared to many others who look at their goals as if they are watching themselves on TV (being disassociated from the feeling of success)
  2. When successful people make mistakes, they don’t give up as they see any mistakes as an opportunity to learn and improve which means the more mistakes they make the better they will become. It is this self belief that motivates successful people in times of potential negativity where other people would just give up.

 

Oprah Winfrey a famous talk show host, actress, producer and businesswomen was born into poverty in mississippi to a signal mother.

Lacking self confidence through an abusive childhood, the young Oprah turned to drugs and ran away from home to help overcome her childhood drama. Later her mother made Oprah move in with her strict father who made Oprah return to school.

While in school Oprah won a speaking contest and two beauty pageants which inspired Oprah to become a talk show host.

 

After working in the media for several years Oprah audition for a talk show job, the nervous Oprah auditioned believing that an overweight black women applying for a talk show host job in America would be laughed out of the audition. To her surprised the producers seen “something” in
Oprah and she was offered the job.

 

With her determination to be successful, she took the talk show to new heights and after a couple of successful series the show was renamed the Oprah Winfrey show and the rest is history.

 

J.K. Rowling found her passion of story telling at an early age and would spend hours telling stories to her baby sister. J.K Rowling started writing at the age of 6 and by the time she was in high school she wanted to take writing seriously. It was during this
time that her mother became ill with multiple sclerosis.

 

In 1990 while flat hunting in Manchester JK had the idea for “Harry Potter” later saying the idea “just fell into her head.” While writing Philosophers Stone JK’s mother died at the age of 45.

 

For 3 years JK moved and lived in Portugal where she worked as a Teacher while continuing to write the first Harry Potter book. While living in Portugal JK was married and became pregnant with her daughter Jesscia. In the same year JK then return to the UK with a completed manuscript.

 

While bring up her daughter signal handed (as JK and her husband had split up) JK continued to edit and type up the book working between baby feeding times and working late into the night, this shown JK’s commitment and determination as many other people would of gave up due to the amount of work bringing up a daughter and writing a book entails.

 

JK sent her completed manuscript to several agents and one finally asked to meet her. It took another 12 months and lots of “no’s” from publishers before “Bloomsbury” made an offer to publisher her book and we all know what happen next.

 

 

Norma Jean Baker “Marilyn Monroe” the most famous female actress in the world was in 1944, told by a modelling agency “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.”

 

Born in 1926, Normas father abandoned the family and Norma grew up not knowing who her father was. Norma and her mum who had a mental illness lived mainly in poverty and Norma spent much of her life living in foster homes due to her mum being in and out of mental hospitals.

 

At the age of 16, Norma married a 21-year-old aircraft plant worker James Dougherty, the marriage would only last for 4 years.

 

In 1942 she had started to model swimsuits and had bleached her hair blond. It was later on after being told to “get married or become a secretary”, which she ignored, that these modelling pictures caught the eye of RKO Pictures who offered Norma a screen test, later Norma
would sign contract with 20th Century Fox.

 

Norma changed her name to Marilyn and went on to become the world’s biggest female actress of all time.

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Secrets of Success

The Secrets of Success Limited Edition DVD Box Set BRAND NEW By Dr Richard Bandler

If you knew the Secrets of Success, how would your life change for the better? What would you achieve?  Dr Richard Bandler the co-creator of NLP is back with a new LIMITED EDITION DVD box set – The Secrets of Success.

Richard Bandler models four immensely successful people whom you will learn from, be inspired by – and whose skills you will be able to use in your own life.

The four stars of the show he interviews are:

  • Celebrity chef and restaurant chain owner, Aldo Zilli
  • Olympic Gold meda-winning runner Iwan Thomas
  • Multi-millionaire businessman Andrew Morris
  • Famous British actor, Christopher Ellison.

In The Secrets of Success you will see Richard modelling each of these immensely successful people, extracting from them powerful tips that will you will find incredibly useful in your life.

 

Among the many secrets of success you will draw from this box set, you will discover:

  • how the most successful people are so often unable to acknowledge their own success – so they have more of a driving edge
  • how hugely creative people generate images in their mind that draw them inexorable towards them
  • how rehearsal over and over again in the mind’s eye can lead to excellence in performance
  • how being an inspiration to others made a millionaire rethink his life
  • what the responsibilities are of being the man in the public eye
  • how the right motivation is the key to making you learn
  • what are the big secrets that the amazingly successful go for what they want – and how you can use those secrets in your life, too.

 

PLEASE NOTE: The Limited Edition Secrets of Success will comprise a tightly restricted run of ONLY 500 sets. Because of
that,we are expecting this set to sell out.

And as FREE EXTRAS in the LIMITED EDITION set ONLY, you will additionally receive:

  • Face To Face with Richard Bandler – a fascinating DVD in which Richard discusses and reveals the thinking behind his life’s work: NLP. Worth £27
  • An audio CD of each Secrets of Success programme, alongside each DVD, so that you can listen to Richard’s interviews and conclusions while you’re driving or relaxing. Worth £49.95

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How to get out of any argument or disagreement with your boss

How to get out of any argument or disagreement with your boss, manager and colleagues

 

 

One of the most common asked questions I receive is how to get out of an argument or disagreement with a manger or boss. I agree this can be a tricky situation as you can automatically feel accused and respond with a defensive answer which often leads to a disagreement with your manger.

What you need to learn is how to turn the accusation back on itself in one simple line.

How to get Out of General Disagreements

 

This simple NLP technique will not only get you out of a disagreement but will make you look good in the process by making your manager respond to your questions. First let’s look at what causes disagreements:

 

Generally your manager or boss will accuse you of something without knowing all the facts, which leads to a general accusation “everyone feels you are not pulling your weight” when feeling accused, we will often defend ourselves which makes us look guilty “but, I work really hard” after a few exchanges, with you the employee feeling more and more defensive this accusation has turned into a full blown argument

 

When accused by your manger and they use a “general” statement, don’t get defensive, get specific and get the details, this way the manger has to give you evidence “who exactly said I’m not pulling my weight?” “well, erm..Tom and Dave” “Ok so, two people said I’m not pulling my weight..” this is a big difference then the original – everyone “and which task did I not pull my weight on?” “erm, I’m not sure really…” now the manger is backed in a corner, while you have remain professional and calm.

 

How to get out of Accusation

 

In some cases your manger or boss may say a damaging statement to put you down, in many cases this may be more specific then the “general” example above which means you need a different approach, a different frame.

 

By re-framing (as we say in NLP) you can put a different and more positive approach on any accusation. My friend recently said to me she felt down after putting on some extra weight after eating too much cake at her child’s birthday party, which I replied with “so, what your saying is the extra cake you ate is a sign that you had fun and were enjoying yourself at your child’s party?”

 

This technique can be easily used with your boss, when given a damaging statement in an appraisal, meeting, promotional job interview or just in the office or on the shop floor.  It doesn’t matter what you are accused off, it’s how you respond and reframe the question that is important

 

Let’s look at these recent real life examples from my career coaching clients and the responses they used

 

  • Promotional Interview “you’re not very creative” Interviewee Response “so, what you’re saying if I show you a creative suggestion you will be interested?”
  • Negative Manager “why do you never understand what I mean?” Employee “so, what you mean is, if I summaries what you have asked me to do after each instruction, you will know that I understand you”
  • Negative colleague “why are you always late?” you “are you asking what has happened in my private life, to make me late for the past few days?”

By turning the question around and getting specific means your manager has to agree or answer your question; with the first question (creative) the interviewer can only agree with you or look stupid. The second question (negative manager) here you have changed the question, its no longer about you not understanding it is about you confirming your understanding and the third example, the negative colleague (lateness) the rude colleague will first feel embarrassed but the conversation has moved from you being late to the reason why, which you can reply with “I cant talk about it now, but I might discuss it with you later” this final line, stops the colleague asking any more probing questions.

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Goal Setting – How to really achieve all your goals

Why do some of us achieve our goals while many others want the same outcome but do nothing about it? If you knew how to achieve all of your goals, how would your life change for the better?

Today and for a short period of time you can download Employment Kings Goal Setting technique which will share with you the techniques to achieve any of your goals – Career, Life, Business, Relationships and anything you really want to achieve.

 

 

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