Advice for interview please

Abbafan1972

I have a job interview tomorrow morning at 11.00.

I haven't been in an interview situation for nearly 8 years, so I'm a bit rusty lol!

It's for a Chiropractic clinic, they have my CV already.

The advert says 15-20 hrs per week (no mention of what the hours are though), I looked on their website and they are open until 8pm, so there's a good chance it could be an evening shift, which I know I won't be able to do.

Any advice would be appreciated thank you.

InsideInsurance

There are hundreds of threads on here about interview techniques with lots of good advice.

In a nutshell, answer questions completely especially the "give an example when..." type question - ie say what happened, what you did and what the outcome was. Secondly have questions prepared to ask them, an interview is a two way process, you are supposed to be deciding if they are right for you as well as the other way round. Evidently you have some questions to ask about shift patterns etc but make sure they arent the first or only ones

Abbafan1972

Thanks. Obviously I'm hoping that the shift patterns will be something that is mentioned early on, because I don't want to sit through a half hour interview and then find out it's 4.00 till 8.00pm!

InsideInsurance

To be honest, if its been 8 years since the last interview and its only 30 minutes long it will be good practice even if the shift patterns are inappropriate... would be different if it was a whole day assessment centre or such

Abbafan1972

Hi there.

Just an update. The interview I thought went well and I was able to answer all his questions.

It seemed like a really nice place to work and the job itself seemed ok. But I was right about the shifts, they want someone who can work an evening! I was honest with them and said I wasn't able to work evenings. The hours had also dramatically risen from the 15-20 in the advert to 25 hours.

I was only guessing about half an hour, the actual interview only took about 15 mins anyway, so not a big loss.

Oh well, I'll keep on looking.....