How Do You Succeed In A Group Interview?
Did you know that you could take a cocktail shaker to a group interview and walk away with a job offer? That’s right – it’s all about standing out from the crowd when it comes to group interviews. But when everyone else has the same goal, that’s not such an easy task. So who uses group interviews? Companies that recruit large numbers of staff (like retail and supermarket chains) love group interviews. They are also used to recruit graduates into highly prized cadetships at organisations such as accounting firms, banks and other corporates. A personal account But back to the cocktail shaker and my experience in a group interview. At the end of a gruelling seven-hour group interview that started with 50 people, I was one of five candidates offered a job. We each had to give a three-minute speech so I decided to ‘drink to my success’ using my personal attributes as ingredients for the job success cocktail; hence the cocktail shaker! Why did it work? Because, I think, the speech was memora
