RIAZ AJAM on It's Your Interview, Own It!
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Riaz is a senior HR Advisor to the Asia Pacific Sales teams within the Thomson Reuters organization. Over the past 20 years, he has held various specialized functions with the HR job family based on his diverse industry experience in the news/media world, banking & finance, insurance, private rail including the IT sector. In his speech, Riaz provided many tips to the following questions raised at a live webinar: 1) What are the parts of a CV do you zoom in, on your 1st reading? 2) Let's hear about your interview experiences 3) Hiring Leaders' views on the common mistakes candidates make which are avoidable! 4) Hiring Leaders' views on the best practices candidates should do more of 5) Pre-Interview Checklist 6) What is your recommended dressing for females to look professional? 7) List of common questions asked at interviews by the hiring panel 8) Practice Question : Give an example of a time when you went that extra mile to really help a customer (watch for 3 submissions from the audience) 9) The P-STAR Method 10) How Answers to Competency Based Questions Are Rated 11) The 8 Tips to do well at interviews 12) Summary list of DOs & DON'Ts 13) "3 Days have passed since my last TQ text to the hiring manager in WhatsApp. Should I follow up?" 14) "How should we answer questions that are sensitive? 15) "How will HR react to candidates who use the pronoun "we" versus "I" in their answers? 16) Should TQ emails be sent to the hiring panel or the admin HR who arranged the interview? 17) What should I do when I'm interrupted halfway through my Self Introduction? 18) Is it ok to ask the interviewer about the workload? 19) How should candidates answer the "expected salary" question. Thank you Riaz for staying late in your Australian time zone to speak to our local workforce - we truly appreciate it :) To download Riaz's deck, head to https://link.artofcareer.com/RiazAjam To watch a video version of his speech, head over to https://youtu.be/O_X6mzSbeu0
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