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When you finish answering the assessment questions, SEEK will provide a comprehensive report in Word 2002 format that you can download and read.

These types of self-assessment instruments can be very handy in helping you understand yourself and your career preferences. If you haven’t done one before, I highly recommend you take advantage of this opportunity today.

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Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”

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Well, I don’t want to start on a negative note, but you do need to know that the main problem with interviews is that they are used as the MAIN indicator of a person’s suitability for a job,

By that, I mean that a greater weight is usually placed on interviews than the other elements of recruitment and selection ie, the job application, referees comments, and sometimes psychological assessment, assessment centre exercises etc.

This is unfortunate, because some people handle interviews well and some don’t. If you are a person who has difficulties with interviews, you need to do something about it. In a later blog I will make some recommendations about how you can do that.

A potential employer can lose an excellent employee by relying too heavily on the results of an interview. Where possible, an assessment centre exercise can be most useful. For example, if a peson has to have skills using MS Word 2007, why not give them access to a computer and a short letter to prepare? This is much more accurate than asking them if they can prepare correspondence using MS Word.

If you are a job seeker, you need to be aware of your individual interview performance and take action to improve it if you know it has faults.

Employers reading this need to consider allocating equal weight to other elements of selection rather than just the interview. They should also consider what additional methods they can use that will give them better insights into how well a potential employee performs.

Some of these issues will be addressed this week and next week.

Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”