Enjoy Some Interesting and Helpful Facts About Interviews!
• The latest figures suggest that 92% of employers use interviews to select their employees.
• Interviewers typically make their minds up in the first four to five minutes of the interview – so making a positive first impression is vital.
• Most interviewers remember what happens at the beginning and the end of the interview and tend to forget what happens in the middle. This is known in occupational psychology as the primacy-recency effect.
• Different interviewers set different standards. Some ask easy questions; others deliberately try to catch you out. This isn’t particularly fair, but it is the way it is. So be on your guard.
• Interviewers tend to be more influenced by negative information than by positive. It is estimated that you need to provide four positive points to make up for one negative – thus, be very careful about admitting weaknesses, as these can be difficult to counter.
• Interviewers tend not to be good at assessing real personality. This means that a good performance can be extremely influential, especially if you appear to be a sociable and outgoing person.
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