CGC Ebook 5.0

What is the employer looking for during the interview? Employers have three key questions to consider during the interview process. The first question is “Can you do the job?” They are evaluating your skills and experience about whether you can complete the task and responsibilities required for the role. The second question is “Will you do the job?” Now they are assessing your motivation to see how passionate or serious you are about the role. The employer is examining the way you speak about your work, your interest in the role and how that fits with your career to date and the training or development you have completed to get to this point. The final question is “Do we like you?” This question relates to whether they see you fitting in well in terms of your personality, character and attitude.

Can I avoid the interview step? If you find interviews incredibly difficult then the answer is yes you can. Your route to a job would need to circumvent this formal application process by either doing work experience, a work trial, an internship or some other way to spend time within a company so the employer can see you at work. If you can contact an employer before they advertise then you can potentially avoid the process of a formal interview, but even if you do, an informal chat with them may still be necessary.