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INTRODUCTION
Please take this canvas as starting point to prepare for your interviews.
This document is for all those job seekers who are looking forward to have a There are different topics mentioned in the below canvas that can help
very successful job interview. This documents talk about how to prepare for the you to structure your interview preparation. Pls go through each topics
interview and what factors to keep in mind while promoting yourself in the and prepare the answers. If you need any help in answering any
interviews . questions then pls write to us at connect@careerireland.com

1 Know your Basics First
Introduction is most imp part of all
Discover yourself
interviews and should contain -
1. What is your USP
2. What are you selling
3. What is your short term and long
term goals in the company
4. How do you differentiate from
crowd
5. how is your experience, & education
is relevant to the company
6. Do you have skill or knowledge
which is not in the JD but could be
of interest to the employers ?
Discover the company
1. Learn about company's products
and service offerings
2. When company was in news
recently
3. Always know company leadership
team
4. Know how company has beaten up
its competition
5. Do you see any role model in the
company
2 Your Introduction
Show your contributions through -
1. Your current job title relevant to the
role
2. Your relevant experience in 3
points
3. Whom do you report and team
structure
4. Your 1-2 quantified achievements
5. Mention 1 most significant most
project undertaken
6. Try keeping your introduction within
2 min
6 Customer Orientation
If you are into roles of Business Analyst
, Project manager, Sales, Account
management etc then customer facing
experience is very imp. Show the below
qualities -
1. Experience of gathering customer
requirements
2. Conducting workshops
3. Escalation resolution
4. Customer Reporting on KPI
5. Maintaining Customer Satisfaction
6. Understanding customer needs
interest , concerns and challenges
3 4
Your Contribution
1. Important initiatives you have
taken
2. Your results delivered over your
tenure in comparison to your
targets
3. Show how you upgraded your
skills and used enhanced skills to
deliver better quality work.
4. Show how your anticipated
customers future needs and
delivered proactively
5. Show how you worked in auto
7 Project Experience
pilot mode without much of
supervision
6. Show your technical
competencies
in the projects that your delivered
Show Deliverables -
1. Your responsibilities
2. Your achievements
3. Your awards
4. Your internal contribution for team
Your Success Metrics
Depending upon your role quantify
your success metrics. Depending upon
the role You may use / Edit some of the
following factors -
1. No of Successful project delivered
2. Net promotor Score
3. Quality factor achieved
4. Automation completed
5. Cost Savings done
6. Processes Improved
7. Digitalization Done
8. New Customer Added
9. Brand Image increment
1. Describe your flagship project
2. Show involvement of customer and
stakeholder
3. Mention your planning and thought
process
4. Describe the project requirements
5. Show how did your complete and
delivered the project on time
6. Mention what were the challenges
you faced
7. Mentioned the results achieved
8. Show if you had any key learning
5 Interview Techniques
Always use the interviewing techniques
to Structure your answers. Some of the
employer preferred methods are are as
follows-
1. STAR - Situation Action Task and Results
2. CARL - Context, Action, Result Learning
3. HOOK STAR - Use a hook before STAR
4. PRIMING - Make interviewer ask you
the questions that you want him to ask
8 Do's and Don't
Do's
1. Feel Free to ask question to
interviewer in between the interview
2. Always answer the question directly
without moving around
3. Show examples wherever possible
4. Answer with numbers, percentages or
add quantification to your deliverables
DONT's
1. Don't extend answers more than 2 min
2. Don't use words such as basically, you
know, I think, or any filler word

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9 Behavior & Technical
Interview
Ask recruiter about the competencies
and focus area for the hiring manager
and practice the key role based ,
industry based and job based question
and DO NOT ASSUME ANYTHING
For Behaviour based interview , have the below things
ready -
1. Your key responsibilities
2. Examples when you pushed your boundaries
3. Your accomplishments and failures
4. Your team building examples
5. Examples when you showed innovation and creativity
6. Examples of your initiatives and leadership
7. Examples of working under tough condition
8. Time management and disagreement
9. Examples when you helped customers
10 Questions to the Interviewer
This is the time when you can show how much interested in the role and ask
the below questions
1, Out of all the responsibilities mention in the JD, what would be the key priorities ?
2. How the success will be measured for this role
3. What will be key performance measurements for this role
4. What will be the team structure and how are different entities are connected
5. What kind of training and improvement opportunities are associated with this role

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