This document provides tips on how to win a job interview. It discusses researching the company, dressing appropriately, being prepared with examples from your background, following up with a thank you email, and evaluating a job offer. The presentation covers common interview questions, types of interviews, preparing answers using the STAR technique, and questions to ask the interviewer about the position and company. The goal is to help attendees understand how to effectively interview for and obtain a job.

1. How To Win The Job
Interview - By Mahmoud
Attia

2. What motivated me to prepare this
session?
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3. Negative Perceptions:
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4. Negative Perceptions:
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5. Negative Perceptions:
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6. Negative Perceptions:
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7. Negative Perceptions:
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8. How to win your target job?
Relevant Effective
Skills job search
Get ready
for the Attitude
interview
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9. After attending this session you will
be able to know:
•How to hunt your target job?
•How to write an attractive CV?
• The top 10 mistakes in a CV.
• Dos and Don'ts of CV writing.
• What are the types of the interviews?
• Sections of the interview.
• Preparation for the interview.
• What should you wear?
• Following up.
• How to evaluate a job offer?
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10. How To Hunt Your Target Job?
A job search is
like a journey
and
sometimes it's
easy to take a
wrong turn
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11. “The Six Common Job Search Mistakes”
1. You don't have an accomplishment-focused
resume.
2. You have neglected your network.
3. You don't have an online presence.
4. You don't have a personal marketing plan.
5. You don't have a system for organizing and
tracking your job search materials.
6. You don't have an accountability partner.
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12. Job Hunt Tips:
• Evaluate your interests & Set a goal for your job hunt.
• Hunt job at all relevant places.
• Build your brand.
• Use your connections.
• Target your CV & Cover Letter.
• Stay prepared.
• Follow up your job application.
• Try to get in touch with the decision maker.
• Don't overstress with your job hunt.
• Avoid negative thinkers.
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13. Your CV, is your passport to the
employer.
Otherwise.
So, it must be easy to read,
short and attractive.
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14. What the attractive CVs should have?
• Contact Details. • Interests.
• Personal • Skills.
Details. • Objective
• Education. Statement.
• Work • References.
Experience. • Personal Photo.
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15. “The TOP 10 Mistakes in a CV”
1. Typos and Grammatical Errors.
2. Lack of Specifics.
3. Attempting One Size Fits All.
4. Highlighting Duties Instead of Accomplishments.
5. Going on Too Long or Cutting Things Too Short.
6. A Bad Objective.
7. No Action Verbs.
8. Leaving Off Important Information.
9. Visually Too Busy.
10. Incorrect Contact Information.
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16. Dos and Don'ts of CV writing
Dos of CV writing:
• Draft and redraft your CV until you are satisfied.
• Make your contact details available at the very beginning
of your CV.
• Write an appealing career summary/executive summary at
the beginning.
• If you are an experienced candidate, keep the focus of
your CV on your work experience, responsibilities and
achievements.
• Use words with more impact to demonstrate your control
over things.
• Write about your achievements from academic or personal
life. They demonstrate a facet of your personality.
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17. Dos and Don'ts of CV writing
Dos of CV writing:
• Rank the achievements in order of priority.
• Mention about your interests out of work in the CV.
• Put un-important things on the second or back page.
• Include some numbers which can impress HR people and
they allow you to meet the responsible person for an
interview.
• Use formal font faces.
• Write short sentences.
• Keep the same tense through out your CV.
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18. Dos and Don'ts of CV writing
Don’ts of CV writing:
• Resume or CV on top.
• Flashy fonts.
• Colorful or glossy paper.
• Photographs until asked or compulsorily required for the position
• Usage of „I‟, „my‟.
• References until asked.
• Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
• Your age, number of kids, age of kids.
• Mentioning health problems in the CV. If you have some obvious
health problem, inform the interviewer.
• Abbreviations or jargons as HR people may not understand them.
• Current or expected salary until asked.
• Mention of reasons for leaving the last jobs.
• Right alignment of the CV content.
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19. Do you want to increase your chances of
a meeting with the interviewer?
A well written
cover letter
increases your
chances of a
meeting with the
Interviewer
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20. If your CV has to
fetch you an
interview call, your
cover letter needs to
compel the
prospective employer
read your CV.
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21. Some tips on writing a attractive Cover Letter :
• Ensure that you don't have a generic cover letter.
• Try to find out the recruiters name, if possible and address
the cover letter to him/ her otherwise address it to the
Hiring Manager.
• Come straight away to the subject without beating around
the bush.
• Give a brief introduction about yourself and the reference
to the job notification to which you are responding.
• Mention how does your candidature fit into the
requirements of the notified job opening.
• End the letter with a courteous note and ask them to feel
free to let you know if they need any further information
about your candidature.
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22. Dos & Don’ts of writing a Cover
Letter
Dos of writing a Cover Letter:
• Keep it short and simple.
• Address the letter to a person rather than to a Madam/Sir.
• Every time you send it out, customize your cover letter.
• Write from reader‟s point of view rather than yours.
• Start with something interesting about their job notification or
their recent news, to catch their attention.
• Direct the reader to your CV, mentioning about some key skills
notified in the advertisement and how your candidature fits into
them.
• Be assertive but polite.
• Get the spellings and the grammar correct.
• Prompt the reader to take an action.
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23. Dos & Don’ts of writing a Cover
Letter
Don’ts of writing a Cover Letter:
• Dear Sir/Madam. Find out the name of the responsible
person and address your cover letter to him.
• „I‟, „my‟ in the cover letter make you egomaniac.
• Aggressive language.
• Spelling mistakes are the biggest turn off.
• Addressing your self as Mr. / Ms.
• Sending out hand written cover letters.
• If you are addressing it to Dear XYZ, it needs 'Yours
sincerely' at the end.
• If you are addressing it to Dear Sir, it should end with
Yours faithfully.
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24. How To Win The Job
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25. What are the types of interviews?
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26. What are the types of interviews?
Types of the interviews – Way :
• Phone Interview.
• One - On - One Interview.
• Group Interview.
• Panel Interview.
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27. What are the types of interviews?
Types of the interviews – Structure :
 Nondirective interview:
• Unstructured.
• Conversational style interview.
• No particular structure, the interviewer asks questions as they come to
mind.
• No scoring of answers.
 Directive interview:
• Structured.
• Pre-Prepared Questions.
• Responses are rated for appropriateness to content Thoroughness,
fairness somehow guaranteed.
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28. What are the types of interviews?
Types of the interviews – Questions :
 Situational interview:
• A series of job related questions focusing on how would the candidate
behave in a given situation.
• It revolves around hypothetical situations, scenarios.
 Behavioral interview:
• A series of job related questions focusing on relevant past job-related
behaviors.
• It is about past behavior , candidates give actual examples which help
the interviewer predict future performance.
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29. What are the types of interviews?
Types of the interviews – Questions :
 Stress interview:
• An interview in which the applicant is made uncomfortable by a series
of often rude questions.
• This technique helps identify hypersensitive applicants and those with
low or high stress tolerance.
• Stress interviews demand that the interviewer be both skilled in it‟s use
and sure the job really calls for a thick skin and ability to handle stress.
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30. How To Win The Job
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31. Sections of the interview….
“Welcome and Small Talk”
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32. Sections of the interview….
“ Position Clarification and
Company Information”
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33. Sections of the interview….
“Background Summary”
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34. Sections of the interview….
“Discussion of your
qualifications and work
history”
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35. Sections of the interview….
“Your Questions”
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36. Good
questions
to ask the
interviewer
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37. Good questions to ask the interviewer:
• Why is this position available?
• Is this a new position? How long has this position
existed?
• How many people have held this position in the last two
years?
• Who would be my supervisor? To whom would I report?
• Whom will I supervise?
• With whom will I be working most closely?
• What do you like about working for this company?
• What are the current plans for expansion or cutbacks?
• What kind of turnover rate does the company have?
• How financially sound is this company?
• What projects and assignments will I be working on?
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38. Good questions to ask the interviewer:
• What happened to the person that held this position
before? Was he promoted or fired?
• What is this company's culture? (Ex: Is it rigid and
formal or relaxed and flexible?)
• What are the current problems facing the company (or
my department)?
• What do you like the most about working for this
company? The least?
• What is the philosophy of the company?
• What do you consider to be the company's strengths
and weaknesses?
• What are the company's long and short term goals?
• Describe the work environment.
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39. Good questions to ask the interviewer:
• Why do you enjoy working for this company?
• Describe the typical responsibilities of the position.
• What are the most challenging aspects of the position?
• Describe the opportunities for training and professional
development.
• Will I receive any formal training?
• What is the company's promotional policy?
• Are there opportunities for advancement within the
organization?
• When can I expect to hear from you?
• What attracted you (the interviewer) to this organization?
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40. How to prepare for the job
interview?
“The key is not the will to win……everybody
has that. It is the will to prepare to win”
How To Win The Job
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Attia

41. Do your
research
about the
company
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42. Plan your
schedule
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43. Well
Begun
Is Half
Done
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44. Dress
reasonably
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45. Dress
reasonably
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46. Rehearse
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47. SiTuation
Action
Result
The STAR Technique
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48. Prepare
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50. Components of the Follow-up Thank
You E-Mail
• Mention the day of your interview and the position for which you
interviewed.
• Express continued interest in the position and the company.
• Re-emphasize your most important skills and qualifications and
how you expect to contribute to the organization.
• Include any information you forgot to mention in the interview, if
necessary, but be brief.
• Close your letter with a comment about future contact with the
employer.
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51. How to
Evaluate
a Job
Offer
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52. How To Evaluate a job Offer?
• Salary. • Your Boss / Co-
• Office Workers.
Environment. • Benefits.
• Corporate • Career Growth.
Culture. • Job
• Working Hours. Requirements.
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53. Any Questions
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54. Mahmoud.Attia@hotmail.co.uk
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