APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS

CVs and Covering Letters

• How to write a CV
• Common questions on CVs
• Pik'nmix CV
  Try different CV layouts to get a personalised style.
• How to write a covering letter
• Example CVs and covering letters
• How to write a CV profile, personal statement or career aim
• Check your proofreading skills
• Action words in applications
  Use positive verbs to make a stronger impression.
• CV quiz

Application Forms

• How to complete application forms
• How to deal with competency-based questions on application forms and at interview. These are the tough ones beginning "Give an example ..." or "Describe a situation ..."
• On-line applications
• The most difficult application forms are for the hard-to-get jobs: such as advertising & the media.
• Example application forms
• Applications and interviews for postgraduate study including writing a personal statement

Other

• EMPLOYER APTITUDE TESTS
  Includes tips on how to pass these. There are 6 practice psychometric tests available:
  • Numerical reasoning test
  • Numerical reasoning test 2
  • Verbal reasoning test
  • Verbal (synonyms) test
  • Non-verbal reasoning test
  • Letter sequences (Logical thinking)
  • Spelling and punctuation test
• Creative jobhunting
  How to network effectively: vital for competitive jobs such as those in the media!
• How to create a portfolio
• Choosing and using referees
• Job-hunting problems
  What to do if you have poor A-levels, degree class or a criminal record.
• Maintaining morale when jobhunting/coping with rejection
• How to deal with job offers

On-line careers videos

• On-line application forms
• Graduate job interviews
• Assessment Centres

Interviews

• Interview skills
• Telephone interviews
• What are the ten most common interview questions?
• Competency-based interviews
• Case interviews
  Used in managment consultancy and investment banking
• Strength-based interviews
  
• How to dress for interviews
• Body language in interviews
  Quiz on non-verbal communication.
• Commercial Awareness
• Interview reports
  Completed by students after interviews: details of questions asked, and tips. (campus only)
• Assertiveness in interviews
• Nightmare interviews
  How to deal with an interviewer from Hell ....
• 150 common interview questions and how to answer them.
• Practice interviews
  For teaching, accountancy, banking, journalism, marketing, personnel management, retailing, Civil Service, postgraduate study, scientific research, computing & law. You are asked common interview questions & given tips on how to answer.
• On-line interview videos
• Science interviews
• Computing interviews
• Legal interviews
• Interview quiz

Selection Centres and Second Interviews

• Second interviews
• Assessment & selection centres
• Example assessment centres
  Timetables for typical assessment centres.
• Teamworking skills
  Interactive exercise and tips for group work exercises in assessment centres.
• Making a presentation
• In-tray and e-tray exercises
• Role plays
• Case study The type you might get at an assessment centre.
• Business game example of the type used at assessment centres.
• Save the World! Environmental business game
• Balloon debate again type you might get at an assessment centre.