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Effective
Communitcation Skills For The Job Interview
Your
communication skills are one of the areas that an employer is looking
at on the job interview. Many people will go into a job interview and
say to the employer, “I have excellent communication
skills.” But, if your interview suggests otherwise, then
you’re just blowing hot air.
The interview gives you an opportunity to show off your communication
skills. Communicating is more than just talking someone to death or
listening to yourself talk. Communicating is a two part process. In an
interview situation, you have to use active listening. Active listening
basically means paying attention to what the other person is saying.
Many people practice lazy listening. This is where you are not paying
attention to the person speaking and you’re busy thinking about
other things or what you’re going to say.
When the interviewer asks you a question, you can start off your answer
by restating the question. This gives you extra time to form your
answer.
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For example, the interviewer asks, “How would your former
employer describe you?”
Your answer would start off as, “My former employer would
describe me as…”
When answering a question, keep your answers short and to the point. If
you’re telling a story, keep it simple. The interviewer
doesn’t need to know the life history of the people in the story.
Don’t use slang or a bunch of um’s and uh’s.
Remember, you are trying to demonstrate to the interviewer that you
have excellent communication skills. When you use um’s and
uh’s throughout your answers, it signals to the interviewer that
you aren’t sure of your answers or you don’t have excellent
communication skills.
Practice your answers before the interview. You can’t know every
question that he or she will ask you, but with the “most
frequently asked questions” section of this website, you’ll
be more prepared than most people.
About the
Author
Michelle
Roebuck provides information on job interview tips and strategies and
how to write a resume that gets notice at http://www.job-interview-and-resume-tips.com.
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Written by: Michelle Roebuck
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