Interviewing Techniques

How can organisations ensure that they attract the best talent? There are various recruitment methodologies that enable organisations to ensure they are recruiting the best talent there is in the market, including: Advertising in the media; Internal succession planning; and Database searches and using search firms. Advertising tends to attract job seekers and not necessarily [...]

Keep in mind that interviews are there to access the fit of your talents, knowledge, experience, strengths, leadership style and much more with the specific opportunity and unique culture of the hiring organisation. To succeed, you must demonstrate that you are a perfect fit in as many areas as possible. Do not spend your preparation [...]

Almost every single adult around the world has at some point or another had to go through the nerve wracking and stressful process of being interviewed for a job. Being interviewed for a job can be one of the most fearful experiences one could ever go through, however if one prepares adequately and undertakes a [...]

There are two sides to every interview. There is the interviewer whose job it is to try and ascertain whether someone is the ideal person for the job; the interviewer will do this through asking a series of relevant and pertinent questions. On the other side is the interviewee who is trying to get the [...]

Recently the Business Day, CareerJunction and The Sunday Times Careers section were giving tips on responding to interview questions. Read below to get those tips from Zinhle Matentji, SearchSpecifics TRANSEARCH Africa MD and Founder. There is plenty of information around for first-time job applicants, but what about those people who have been working for many [...]