Job Interview Help

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Hi corriefan, i had a job interview last month, and i am pleased to say i was offered the job and i start on monday! Anyway, i was looking forward to going to the interview, but i wanted to make sure i was prepared for what they were going to ask. I managed to have answers to every question they asked, which is what i was worried about - and i gave evidence/examples of all the things i said too.

I used the following web pages very useful

http://www.alec.co.uk/interview/intq1.htm
http://www.alec.co.uk/interview/intq2.htm
http://www.alec.co.uk/interview/intq3.htm
http://www.alec.co.uk/interview/intq4.htm
http://www.alec.co.uk/interview/intq5.htm
http://www.alec.co.uk/interview/intq6.htm

Go through the questions and pick out the ones relevent to the job you are applying, and write down answers for them, and use examples where u can.

What i did was write down bullet points to act as a reminder, and i took 1 page of typed notes to the interview with me so i could look at it if i got stuck on anything.

i broke it down in to following areas

CAREER HISTORY
STRENGTHS
DEVELOPMENT AREAS - and how i was currently working on these
ACHEIVEMENTS
WHAT DO I WANT TO GET OUT OF THE JOB
QUESTIONS

to give you an idea, these are the questions i asked...

· How will I be managed? How am I given tasks? what meetings will i attend?

· Who will report to me?

· What training will I receive?

· What will my salary be?

· When will you decide on the appointments? When will I find out if I am successful?


Obviously these may not be relevent to your job, but just for ideas.

Good luck and let us know how u get on.
If i think of anything else i'll post it here later.
nick

That's what I did for six years - the job the op is after. I enjoyed myself after a rocky start. Some job specific questions I would ask about how much lifting is involved? Do you have to receive incoming deliveries? What is the volume of post that goes out of the organisation? Is it mostly letters or packets or parcels? Are the letters generally dl (window envelopes) or a5 or a4? Are there daily postal collections? What time are the daily postal collections? Are you expected to take late post to the post office? Is the post despatched using Royal Mail Account (book - involves counting & stamping invoiced later), franking machine (pre-paid, but requires weighing).

All this can help you work out how much work this is going to entail, if you have a lot of parcels - you are going to have to fill out a parcel despatch book, which requires an address for each parcel (if the company sends a lot of parcels then they will have an account parcel price, so you won't constantly be working out the price, even though you'll have to weigh the items) - this will take you about 2 or three minutes for each one once you get into a rythmn - however it will take about five minutes when you start off. Similarly with special delivery or recorded delivery items.

With letters - if they are all DL (think bills or bank statements), then it will be a pretty easy job because they are all going to be practically the same weight the cost of a first or second class stamp, so you don't have be constantly stopping to weigh the items when putting the postage on them. Your busiest times will be in the afternoon. Of course I worked in a medium sized organisations despatch area, a large organisation woulw be set up differently - there would be a lot of pre-printed stationary.

Good Luck.