Interview tomorrow, Tips welcome :)
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only on fatties.
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Keep eye contact and nod.
Make sure you have several questions for them eg pension scheme, pay scale, holiday entitlement, clothes to wear and even if they have told you earlier make it known they have already answered a couple of your questions.
If you can't remember your questions take them in on a piece of paper and it will give you something to hold onto.
Standard questions from them could be:
Tell us about a time you worked on your own?
Tell us about a time you worked in a team?
Tell us about a time you used your initiative.
Make sure you have several questions for them eg pension scheme, pay scale, holiday entitlement, clothes to wear and even if they have told you earlier make it known they have already answered a couple of your questions.
If you can't remember your questions take them in on a piece of paper and it will give you something to hold onto.
Standard questions from them could be:
Tell us about a time you worked on your own?
Tell us about a time you worked in a team?
Tell us about a time you used your initiative.
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It's really important to show them that you can fit in with the existing team:
So, make sure you tell them that you're great at opening other people's letters, fantastic at posting things to the wrong address on a consistent basis and can ring a doorbell and run away in under 5 seconds.
They might make you a manager on the spot. More importantly though, just be relaxed (I know it's hard!) and try to think of it all as great 'life experience'.
So, make sure you tell them that you're great at opening other people's letters, fantastic at posting things to the wrong address on a consistent basis and can ring a doorbell and run away in under 5 seconds.
They might make you a manager on the spot. More importantly though, just be relaxed (I know it's hard!) and try to think of it all as great 'life experience'.
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Go to the interview with a pocket full of red rubber bands. Leave a trail of them behind you wherever you go.
This is a trademark of a man destined to be a good postie.
This is a trademark of a man destined to be a good postie.
My God! I thought that only happened to me!
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Also take a picture of your garage to show them how many bags you can hide in there when you get behind.
(This happened to 2 of my mates).
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Going over things in the 'ole brain, Here goes...
Interviewer(s): Why do you want to work for RM and what can you bring to the company?
me: With RM having been around since the 1600's I think you have a great understanding of the industry and I would like to join your workforce(team?) so I can thrive in the given enviroment, I can bring a 'great deal'(or wide range??) of skills to RM, Wether working in a team or on my own initiative.
Does that sound reasonable? I want to keep my answer's short, to the point and all positives.
Interviewer(s): Why do you want to work for RM and what can you bring to the company?
me: With RM having been around since the 1600's I think you have a great understanding of the industry and I would like to join your workforce(team?) so I can thrive in the given enviroment, I can bring a 'great deal'(or wide range??) of skills to RM, Wether working in a team or on my own initiative.
Does that sound reasonable? I want to keep my answer's short, to the point and all positives.
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Cheers for that Ahleckz, I dont own any skinny ties so it will be a fullsize one, Think i'll go with a red tie
Going over things in the 'ole brain, Here goes...
Interviewer(s): Why do you want to work for RM and what can you bring to the company?
me: With RM having been around since the 1600's I think you have a great understanding of the industry and I would like to join your workforce(team?) so I can thrive in the given enviroment, I can bring a 'great deal'(or wide range??) of skills to RM, Wether working in a team or on my own initiative.
Does that sound reasonable? I want to keep my answer's short, to the point and all positives.
I would specify one or two skills.
Before going for the interview visualise a previous succsssful event, to get into a positive frame of mind.
Everybody going for the interview will be capable of doing the job so if you can make the interviewer smile or laugh you will get the job. I turned up an hour late for an interview once. I explained that I had got lost due to incomprehensible directions from the internet. At the end of the interview they asked me what my bad point was. I replied "Map reading", everybody laughed and I got the job.
Everybody going for the interview will be capable of doing the job so if you can make the interviewer smile or laugh you will get the job. I turned up an hour late for an interview once. I explained that I had got lost due to incomprehensible directions from the internet. At the end of the interview they asked me what my bad point was. I replied "Map reading", everybody laughed and I got the job.
I wonder if my ties are skinny ties or normal ties. They're all the same, except for the bow ties, which I'm fairly sure are different again.
Isn't royal mail in terrible financial trouble, as a consequence of the more lucrative deliveries being handled by couriers? Might make for a decent interview question.
Isn't royal mail in terrible financial trouble, as a consequence of the more lucrative deliveries being handled by couriers? Might make for a decent interview question.