Employers often have a formal rating sheet with predetermined areas such as:
Neat and clean overall appearance/poise/communicative skills
Academic/work achievements (learning ability, standards of excellence)
Special skills (technical, languages, creativity, management, analytic, negotiation)
Personal characteristics (team player, enthusiastic, dependable, emotionally stable, flexible)
Self-assessment, goals/ambitions
Leisure-time activities, balance in life
Reaction to job/organization
Potential
Evaluate how well you did after each interview. Ask yourself:
What points did I make that seemed to interest the employer?
Did I present my qualifications in the best manner possible, giving appropriate examples as evidence?
Was I able to explain my personal goals, interests and desires?
Did I emphasize how my skills are related to the role?
Did I pass up opportunities to sell myself, to demonstrate the work I do and to show how profitably I could do it for both the organization and myself?
Did I talk too much? Too little?
Was I too tense? Passive? Aggressive?
Did I find out enough about the role to make a knowledgeable decision?
What changes can I make for my next interview?
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