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How to prepare for interviews for a Lancashire Job

It can be hard to remember that there are two very different sides of the coin when it comes to interview preparation. As we reflect on job interviews, we seem to drift towards thinking about the applicant, and the stress and butterflies they are likely to be having about whether they will be successful in their interview and securing the job. At Daniel Adams, it is our job to support people with this process and help relieve the nerves a little by assisting them in preparing for their interviews. We can direct them in terms of what kind of questions to prepare for, areas to concentrate on, or things to think about during the preparation time before the interview. As an example, things like building a picture of the business, their services, getting to grips with the role and how it slots into the bigger picture within the company.

At the same time, it is important that the businesses themselves also invest time and develop skills in the area of interview preparation. Time spent structuring the interview and on building suitable questions helps ensure that the interview flows well, and that the questions asked are relevant to the job and give you the knowledge you need to know if the person has the skills and experience for the role.

Before advertising the position, and in the early stages of the recruitment process for a Lancashire job, the company should have created or reviewed a job description and person spec, perhaps in collaboration with a recruitment agency such as Daniel Adams. This tends to be separated into two distinct sections, the first providing details of the duties and responsibilities of the job. Some of these areas will be generic and areas that you may be familiar with and have carried out elsewhere, and others may be more organisation specific such as using an inhouse computer system which you would not be familiar with unless you had worked there previously.

It is for this reason, that there is a second part to the job description, which is the person specification, detailing the essential and sometimes desirable criteria needed to complete the job. This is the part of the job description that interviewers need to concentrate on when they are developing their interview questions. This section highlights the skills, expertise and qualifications needed to completer the role effectively. It is the nuts and bolts of identifying if the person is the right person for the role, and as such each bullet point and criteria in this section should be reviewed as a potential area to pose an interview question. Interviewers should use a variety of interview questions including scenario-based questions, competency questions and open questions that enable the interviewee to use real working examples that show their skills and expertise in particular areas, as well as posing scenarios such as ‘if …., what would you do?’ This type of question helps build a picture of whether the interviewee has the skills for the job, but also their approach and qualities in how they would deal with specific scenarios they may end up in if working in the job, these are often used to identify how people would deal with tricky customers or how they may juggle conflicting deadlines for example.

Thinking about how it is discussed about that employers should approach building the interview questions, it is worth people who have interviews pending for Lancashire jobs looking in detail and getting to grips with the job description and person specification and what experience and examples they have in each area before the interview. If applicants have interviews arranged through Daniel Adams, they will be given information on what skills and experience are most important to the business and where the areas of concentration may be in terms of the interview. Looking through the person specification point by point also helps you see if you have any areas of weakness and work out how you might respond to questions in that area. These are the types of things that recruitment agents like Daniel Adams can help you with and guide you on prior to interviews.