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Tips for a Successful First Interview

Filed under Interviewing
Posted by Libraries, March 18, 2009
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Now that you’ve landed your first interview for a professional position, it’s time to start the preparations. Elspeth Raisbeck of Nursing Standard provides a few ideas on how to insure that your first interview is a success:

• Search and research – make sure you know as much as possible about the company/ firm/organization that you are interviewing with – like projects that they are involved with and new directions that they are exploring

• Know where to be – make sure you a printout of the address/ room location and the names of the persons that you are interviewing with. Come early – leave plenty of time for traffic and parking – plan to arrive about 20 minutes early.

• If nerves threaten to overcome you, try to relax, take several deep breaths and count to ten.

For more information on successful interviewing techniques, check out the CRL eLibrary for Interviewing resources.

blogged by Adrian Mitescu