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Top Tips: Making the Best Impression in Video Interviews
Check out our top tips for helping to nail your video interviews:
- Test your tech and set up your shot. A plain/clear uncluttered background works best.
- Research! The company, the job role and who is interviewing you....
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Practice your video interview skills ahead of time, including answers to potential interview questions and don’t forget your elevator pitch.
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Make sure you know your CV! Have a copy to hand, write prompt cards as needed with key experience and skills relevant to the role.
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Dress to impress! You are naturally more confident if you look and feel your best.
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Position yourself just right, sit up straight and have good body language and check your lighting, avoid glare!
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Keep and maintain good eye contact, look at your camera rather than the screen.
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Be clear when you speak, pay attention to how you sound. Always be prepared for small talk!
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Try not to talk too fast, remember to pause at the end of a question so that you don’t talk over the interviewer (slight time delay is likely).
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Remember to smile and look interested and try not to waffle! If they are fidgeting and looking bored, then they are.