Make sure your tie is done up properly! Be confident, but not arrogant. Be prepared. Smile!
Windsor knot - it's the only way.
Double Windsor is in fact much more professional!
Isn't that the same knot but different name? Also known as the Full Windsor? On a lighter note - you can be underdressed. I once interviewed, for a graduate trainee post, a girl in a very short skirt. At the end she bent down to pick up her backpack and it became immediately obvious that she wasn't wearing knickers. She didn't get the job. (Nice arse though!)
Best piece of advice I can give you is be true to yourself, I worked in various crap retail jobs for a few years, before applying for a role within Barclay's. I went to the interview, told them I don't have a clue about banking, that I couldn't work weekends and need to be home by 7pm for weekday football matches and the Champions League, that I bank with HSBC and I'm looking to leave my other job because my manager was a wanker who wouldn't let me progress, and I have been here 3 months now and loved every second!
Thanks everyone. Think, or maybe hope, I impressed them with the suit (everyone working in store was in a hoody!!) and my enthusiasm but I've a feeling that nerves got the better of me during questions I hadn't anticipated and will ultimately cost me.
Hey ho, I find out in the next couple of days. Just hoping they saw potential in me!
Thanks everyone. Think, or maybe hope, I impressed them with the suit (everyone working in store was in a hoody!!) and my enthusiasm but I've a feeling that nerves got the better of me during questions I hadn't anticipated and will ultimately cost me.
Hey ho, I find out in the next couple of days. Just hoping they saw potential in me!
Callum, here's one final, timely bit of advice. If you think that anything you said in the interview might not properly have conveyed what you think, you have one, final chance to rectify it. If you really want the job (and I think you do), write to them. Thank them for their time. And take the opportunity to say whatever it was that you might have left hanging or not conveyed because of nerves.
it doesn't have to be a printed, signed letter; you could email instead. But, when they come to sift through applications an interview feedback, who is the one that will really stick out? It's the guy that took the trouble to send a "thank you" and to remind them of the one thing he wasn't able to say in the interview.
Thanks everyone. Think, or maybe hope, I impressed them with the suit (everyone working in store was in a hoody!!) and my enthusiasm but I've a feeling that nerves got the better of me during questions I hadn't anticipated and will ultimately cost me.
Hey ho, I find out in the next couple of days. Just hoping they saw potential in me!
Callum, here's one final, timely bit of advice. If you think that anything you said in the interview might not properly have conveyed what you think, you have one, final chance to rectify it. If you really want the job (and I think you do), write to them. Thank them for their time. And take the opportunity to say whatever it was that you might have left hanging or not conveyed because of nerves.
it doesn't have to be a printed, signed letter; you could email instead. But, when they come to sift through applications an interview feedback, who is the one that will really stick out? It's the guy that took the trouble to send a "thank you" and to remind them of the one thing he wasn't able to say in the interview.
I have some great news. I got a call back after I'd been home less than 5 minutes.
They say they were really impressed and really wanted to get me started ASAP. I've been asked to go back into the store at 10am tomorrow to start training. :-)
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Good luck.
wear the jacket if you havent got a suit... but suit is better
wear the belt
shined shoes and dark socks
if you have any tatoos cover them up
if you have any visible piercings take them out
wear the jacket and if the trousers have belt loops then wear one (preferably one same colour as your shoes)
Found out the jacket didn't quite match the trousers..... luckily my brother has let me nick his suit for the afternoon (and it fits)!
Best of luck
On a lighter note - you can be underdressed. I once interviewed, for a graduate trainee post, a girl in a very short skirt. At the end she bent down to pick up her backpack and it became immediately obvious that she wasn't wearing knickers. She didn't get the job. (Nice arse though!)
Good luck
Callum: Honesty
Interviewer: I don't think honesty can be seen as a weakness.
Callum: I don't give a fuck what you think!
good luck
Best of luck Callum!
Hey ho, I find out in the next couple of days. Just hoping they saw potential in me!
it doesn't have to be a printed, signed letter; you could email instead. But, when they come to sift through applications an interview feedback, who is the one that will really stick out? It's the guy that took the trouble to send a "thank you" and to remind them of the one thing he wasn't able to say in the interview.
Go for it. Do it now - and best of luck.
The jobs yours
They say they were really impressed and really wanted to get me started ASAP. I've been asked to go back into the store at 10am tomorrow to start training. :-)
Basically, I have a new job!
Some great advice on here that I will always remember for the future.