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How to Succeed at: Interviews

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Being offered an interview is exciting but can be quite daunting. On this course, our experts from The Careers Service here at The University of Sheffield will make sure you are prepared for the big day.

If you’re still at the stage of writing your CV and submitting applications for a job or course, join our course How to Succeed at: Writing Applications.

This course is designed for anyone applying for jobs or courses. It will be of particular interest to those in the early stages of their career, or those who are out of practice and need to update their skills. No prior knowledge or expertise are needed.

Syllabus

  • Preparing for interviews
    • Welcome to Week 1
    • Getting ready for the day
    • Thorough preparation does work
    • Summary of the week
  • Dealing with interviews
    • Welcome to Week 2
    • Creating a positive impression
    • Getting to grips with interview questions
    • Closing stages
    • End of week summary
  • Handling different types of interview
    • Welcome to Week 3
    • Successful telephone and video interviews
    • Other non-standard interviews
    • End of course summary

Taught by

Hilary Jones and Pamela Hafekost

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4.8 rating, based on 481 Class Central reviews

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  • Profile image for Keren Rodriguez
    Keren Rodriguez @KerenR
    5
    this course answered all my questions and calmed my worries about both job interviews and school interviews. Was very insightful and gave excellent advice, highly recommend it.
  • Profile image for Kajal Das
    Kajal Das @kajaldas
    4
    I am able to learn many essential things required in a professional interview for a candidate.

    This course not only for beginners, it is equally important for any professional candidate those who are going to appear an interview. Even, HR and other people who are closely related to the recruitment process, this course is very helpful to them.
  • Anonymous
    This course has armed me in various ways. I came with this thought that - 'I know enough of interviews' but when I dug into week 1, I started to get convinced that there was much more than I knew. The various templates were so helpful and informativ…
  • Profile image for Ronny De Winter
    Ronny De Winter @RonnyDeWinter
    367
    When you are looking for a job and have planned some interviews, it is always good to prepare yourself. This course helps you with that, how to prepare and how to deal with interviews.
    That being said the tips being given are quite straight forward, and unless you never did an interview before most of it sounds like common sense. Anyway, it can help to go with more confidence in that important interview. You can never be too prepared!
  • Profile image for Priscila Frohmut
    Priscila Frohmut @priscilaffonseca
    12
    I learned in detail some of the possibilities about what I already had lived about job interviews, but with more detailed and clear information about, and also learned a lot about other possibilities I never faced before when going for interviews.

    Really useful information, nice and useful files to download and study more, a nice course to take!
  • Anonymous
    I found out the course very substantial, factful and extremely usefull for those who are going to prepeare for job interview. The lessons, videos and texts inside are not long that make study easy to access, understand and follow. It seems that high class professionals worked out the course, thank you a lot! Hugs
  • Pamela Gayle Johnson
    7
    This course is great for all levels:
    1) Beginners would get the most out of it;
    2) Intermediate would also find it very helpful; and
    3) Advanced level course attendees would still find this course very good for basic reviews of interview techniques to maximize self-confidence in handling any job search interview situation.

    The downloadable pdf's are great reminders (to avoid future nervousness)!

    Thank you for this on-line course!
  • Anonymous
    This course was didn't take up too much of my time. Having steps made it easier to view my progress and to see what activities were coming up next. I was very nervous about interviews but taking this course has made me very confident that I will know how to handle the situation, especially when I get stressed. It gave a wide range of information that I will need to consider before an interview and I think it covered everything I needed to know.
  • Profile image for Inma De La Torre
    Inma De La Torre @Inma
    6
    It is a very helpful course with templates you can download to help you prepare for interviews. The information is quite useful and presents more modern and current recruitment scenarios such as video interviews.

    The course can be used both if you are applying to higher education programs or jobs.
  • Anonymous
    Thank you. Fairly basic stuff, I suppose, but essential for someone who hasn't been on the job market for some time.
  • Anonymous
    Very good course with lots of useful and practical materials to use during a learning process and having a possibility to save these materials on your own computer for later use. I think it is really helpful and useful to take this course prior to any type of the interview.
  • Anonymous
    It has been a while since I last had an interview and I couldn't ask for a better course, it was a fantastic refresher and I would recommend it to anyone preparing for interview. The tutors provide loads of advice, interview practice scenarios, examples, videos, handy study material you can use and refer to in the future. The quizzers and role plays are fun and they all help towards preparing you or getting you up to speed on what to expect, how to react or respond. This is a great way to study within a community of employees, students people from all walks of life in and outside the UK, bouncing off ideas, sharing comments, experiences, advice all in an attempt to improve and develop yourself.
  • Olivia Fagundez
    3
    The course is really interesting and provides very useful information on how to face interviews and test when applying for jobs. I found the course really easy to follow except for the example test. I would I did not understand how to answer them. I would say if participants have the opportunity to deliver the answer and receive a feedback would be nice. Thank you so much for all your help.
  • Anonymous
    I found the course very well planned. The exercises and examples were really good. There were a lot of down to earth examples However the learner participation could have been better. I think mentor participation may encourage learner participation since some the question posed had no replies.
    Overall a very useful course.
  • Anonymous
    I found the course to be helpful in providing information on how to prepare for interviews and what to expect in them. It was also informative in explaining the various forms interviews can take and the techniques which can be used during the interviews.
  • Anonymous
    It is amazing. It has many helpful techniques by which we can do better in interview. I really love this course. Thank you for providing this wonderful course to us
  • Anonymous
    I found this class full of helpful tips that will hopefully lead to me being less nervous in the future during interviews.
  • Anonymous
    Excellent explanation of recruiting process via simple steps to professional career growth. Readiness to quality preparations is the best choice for the desired workplace. Recommend trying the helpful tips personally!
  • Profile image for Sylvia Amar
    Sylvia Amar @Pimiko
    126
    It's a very good course, easy to follow. The material you can download is very good. I learned tips and rational ways to answer an interview for applying a job.
  • Anonymous
    The instructors provided easy-to-follow videos and articles informing the audience of all interview formats. Every part of the course offered helpful tips and a chance to put our newly-learned interview skills to the test. Thank you for your efforts and time into creating this course.

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