CAREER: Job Interview checklist

This checklist concerns the practical preparatory steps for a job interview. They should be easy to remember and be very basic, and exactly for this reason it is important to remember them all:

1. Collect your papers: a) Your application, b) CV, c) Job description.
2. Consider how you're going to be dressed, and prepare it (could be a) tie, b) suit, c) special T-shirt, is it clean etc (should it be)....
3. Research the company
4. Research the industry
5. Research the job
6. Prepare questions TO the company (a) the job (referring to?, a usual day?, how can you excel, what character is your boss, your colleagues? etc.
7. Prepare answers FROM the company/recruiter (strong/weak points, results in your career, and how you achieved them, where are you in 1/5/10 years etc. etc.). Think of and prepare relevant questions to you that start with "How do you feel about ....", "Give an example of when you did ...."
8. Prepare your 5 strongest points that you want to convey and concentrate on repeating them during the interview whenever it seems natural.
9. Remember to be enthusiastic, but don't overdo it. Smile. Be on the ball.
10. You are probably being assessed on your intelligence, your practical experience (the circumstances, your approach and the results) and expertise and your social/emotional abilities. Find a way to prepare for this.
11. You may also get a case to solve. Prepare yourself for this - ask beforehand how the interview is going to be conducted.
12. Send the employer or the recruiter a follow-up e-mail when you get home and explain briefly why you liked the job and how much you'd like to get it.