Lined up for a case study interview?

These interviews are there to test your analytical capability, listening skills, presentation skills, quantitative skills, and your ability to make reasonable assumptions among ambiguous sets of data.

Here are a few examples to help you thinking:

1. How many metres have you travelled to get to this interview office?
2. How many cars are on the Sydney Harbour Bridge right now?
3. How many golf balls can you fit into a standard sized olympic swimming pool?

So you have just arrived at the interview. You believe you have researched the company, the position you are applying for, and you have also prepared quite a few practice questions and answers beforehand. You have also made sure you look and smell good.

However, there are many more things to consider apart from all this preparation. All the preparation in the world will not matter, if you do not succeed in creating a lasting impression in an interview. The following is 7 step guide to building the right image for your interviewer:

Whether it be standing in front of 10 people or 1000 people, or even just sitting across the table at a job interview, we’ve all been nervous at one stage or another. Don’t worry this is normal. We aren’t all born great speakers.

The following article summarises 5 key things to keep in mind while you are in a presentation, or when you are simply in front of someone that you need to create some rapport with.

Simple equation. Income - Spendings = Savings. That’s all there is to it. Yet, many people forget the simple equation of savings, often wondering where all their cash and income has gone.

GradTips offers 9 tips that deal with savings and expenses, in order to optimise the much needed bandwith your wallet requires.

1. Withdraw more cash

So you’ve got passed the cover letter and Resume screening, and now you are on to the interview - well done. There’s more work to be done however! If you have researched correctly during recruitment periods, and made sure you have spent more time on your cover letter and CV, you should have a plethora of interviews to attend to. To celebrate, the following is a list of things the interviewer DOESN’T want to hear.

“What in the world is Computer-ecological?” you say?

I use this term to refer to an ecological footprint, which can be affected by technology based outcomes. Here are 7 ways you can reduce your footprint, so as to save on resources which can be used by those in the future:

A Cover Letter is a list of reasons why you are the best suited candidate for a job. Thus, the first step to getting that interview is to make a cover letter stand out from the rest of the crowd. The average student won’t spend enough time to perfect it, often resulting in a long, drabby, and unenthusiastic passage of arduous text. While it is largely difficult to summarise your offerings within a one page summary, the following is an article which provides 5 key tips and considerations to assist in writing a cover letter from scratch.

The best part about being a student is that you have all the time in the world to decide what you want to do in the future. You don’t really need to wake up in the morning for that 9am lecture, nor do you really need to study for exams consistently. In fact, I’m sure there are a lot of students out there that believe cramming is the best way to learn. But in the real world - there’s an underlying expectation of consistency being the best delivery. The following article (which is split into two parts) provides some insight on ways I have used to get motivated, by managing time and setting career and life goals.