Posts Tagged ‘interviewer’
With the likes of Justin Bieber, Katie Perry and Avril Lavigne selling us on the benefits of Proactiv there must be something to it? While I can’t actually tell you anything about the skin care products (they look a little too good to be true if you ask me), as someone who works in the [...]
Ted Mosby is an all round nice guy. He has a good group of friends and he has definite direction in his life. In fact we all know where Ted’s story leads; the two kids on the lounge show us how it ends up. What we don’t know is how he gets there? In fact [...]
Excuses, excuses! ProGrad have recently discovered a disturbing statistic- there is a shocking rate of Grandparents coming down with a serious illness on a Thursday morning. Also peaking on a Thursday prior to 9am is the rate of graduate job offers. Who are all these companies that call you before business hours to offer you [...]
Dressed to kill Coming along to assessment day with ProGrad, or out to a job interview trying your luck as a fresh faced graduate in the corporate world? I’m sure you’ve done all your preparation- you know your strengths, weaknesses, why you want the role, but have you given a thought to the [...]
How to prepare for the assessment day: ProGrad are Australia’s only dedicated graduate assessment, placement and training company. We receive hundreds of applications each week from graduates looking to join the ProGrad program. Our filtering process begins with a CV Screen and a telephone interview. In order to be selected to attend an assessment centre, [...]
When attending interviews, you are in essence selling yourself. You are the product and you need the interviewer to buy into you. Think about yourself as a product. What is your brand? How do you represent your brand? What does your brand say about you? Are you a premium brand? What are the key objectives [...]
With fewer roles available in the current job market, and more job-hunters out there, it is essential that job seekers act carefully during the job application process. Nothing screams “lazy job seeker” quite like a generic email with a generic resume sent to every employer advertising a role. What job seekers don’t see, is the [...]
This is without a doubt one of the most difficult interview questions to answer. It’s up there with “What is your greatest weakness?” Where most candidates go wrong, is shooting too high when answering this question. In having high expectations, it can scare a potential employer. They may believe in that talent and potential, yet [...]
As a recent graduate, it is likely that your interview experience will be limited and therefore it is hard to know what the general expectation is when you’re visiting a company for an interview. Always treat an interview as though it were a business meeting. Put yourself in the shoes of a professional business person. [...]
I was sitting in a coffee shop this week, moments before starting a large graduate assessment day. In preparation for the 40 or so graduates who were about to be in attendance, I was quickly eating some food and drinking a quick coffee, knowing it would be the last time for the next 6 hours [...]
