How To Use Your CV In A Job Interview
Use your CV to give you a competitive advantage.
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If you know how to use your resume / CV in a job interview, it can give you a head start over other candidates.
Your CV is important, even after you've been offered the job interview.
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Why?
- Your CV can help you prepare for the interview.
As you read through it beforehand, you can pre-empt the questions they will ask. You can even influence this by deliberately writing your CV to provoke certain questions.
This helps you prepare for the interview and feel more confident. Your CV should include enough detail to get you an interview, but hold back a little, to make the interviewer curious.
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- The interviewer may use your CV as a basis for the first part of the interview.
It often becomes a script that forms a basis for interview discussion.
Your tailored CV will show your potential employer how you can meet the needs of their organisation. It will demonstrate what you will bring with you, to add to the vacancy they are hoping to fill.
It will also give them an idea about how you would fit in with the team and how you can rise to the challenge of making the role your own. It gives you a huge head start in an interview. Reffering to a generalist CV in a job interview is unlikely to do this for you.
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It's essential to know your CV well.
It's so disappointing to interview a strong candidate who clearly hasn't looked at their CV for months...
...or even contradicts themselves - immediate credibility loss.
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