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The University of Sheffield

How to Succeed at: Interviews

The University of Sheffield via FutureLearn

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Overview

Being offered an interview is exciting but can be quite daunting. On this course, our experts from The Careers Service here at The University of Sheffield will make sure you are prepared for the big day.

If you’re still at the stage of writing your CV and submitting applications for a job or course, join our course How to Succeed at: Writing Applications.

This course is designed for anyone applying for jobs or courses. It will be of particular interest to those in the early stages of their career, or those who are out of practice and need to update their skills. No prior knowledge or expertise are needed.

Syllabus

  • Preparing for interviews
    • Welcome to Week 1
    • Getting ready for the day
    • Thorough preparation does work
    • Summary of the week
  • Dealing with interviews
    • Welcome to Week 2
    • Creating a positive impression
    • Getting to grips with interview questions
    • Closing stages
    • End of week summary
  • Handling different types of interview
    • Welcome to Week 3
    • Successful telephone and video interviews
    • Other non-standard interviews
    • End of course summary

Taught by

Hilary Jones and Pamela Hafekost

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4.8 rating, based on 450 Class Central reviews

4.7 rating at FutureLearn based on 469 ratings

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  • Profile image for Kajal Das
    Kajal Das @kajaldas
    I am able to learn many essential things required in a professional interview for a candidate.

    This course not only for beginners, it is equally important for any professional candidate those who are going to appear an interview. Even, HR and other people who are closely related to the recruitment process, this course is very helpful to them.
  • Profile image for Priscila Frohmut
    Priscila Frohmut @priscilaffonseca
    I learned in detail some of the possibilities about what I already had lived about job interviews, but with more detailed and clear information about, and also learned a lot about other possibilities I never faced before when going for interviews.

    Really useful information, nice and useful files to download and study more, a nice course to take!
  • Profile image for Keren Rodriguez
    Keren Rodriguez @KerenR
    this course answered all my questions and calmed my worries about both job interviews and school interviews. Was very insightful and gave excellent advice, highly recommend it.
  • Profile image for Ronny De Winter
    Ronny De Winter @RonnyDeWinter

    Ronny De Winter completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be very easy.

    When you are looking for a job and have planned some interviews, it is always good to prepare yourself. This course helps you with that, how to prepare and how to deal with interviews.
    That being said the tips being given are quite straight forward, and unless you never did an interview before most of it sounds like common sense. Anyway, it can help to go with more confidence in that important interview. You can never be too prepared!
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    This course has armed me in various ways. I came with this thought that - 'I know enough of interviews' but when I dug into week 1, I started to get convinced that there was much more than I knew. The various templates were so helpful and informative....
  • Profile image for Inma De La Torre
    Inma De La Torre @Inma
    It is a very helpful course with templates you can download to help you prepare for interviews. The information is quite useful and presents more modern and current recruitment scenarios such as video interviews.

    The course can be used both if you are applying to higher education programs or jobs.
  • Pamela Gayle Johnson

    Pamela Gayle Johnson completed this course, spending 1 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

    This course is great for all levels:
    1) Beginners would get the most out of it;
    2) Intermediate would also find it very helpful; and
    3) Advanced level course attendees would still find this course very good for basic reviews of interview techniques to maximize self-confidence in handling any job search interview situation.

    The downloadable pdf's are great reminders (to avoid future nervousness)!

    Thank you for this on-line course!
  • Anonymous
    Very useful advices for who are preparing for interview. Thanks to all contributors to this wonderful course. I recommend this course. Also I would like to see some tips. For example, when interviewers offer drinks, what should we choose? For example, I know that the best and easily accesible drink is water. Also if we select to drink a cup of hot drink there is a risk. Something may go wrong and it can spell over us. This situation can cause chaos. And many many other things :) These may be very detailed informations but they are also important
  • Anonymous
    It covered the basics, but could have offered more support for more experienced employees needed more in-depth support. Showing what is a poor interview and how to answer diffcult questions. No info on how to follow-up interviews, whether it's appropriate to refer to notes and how to ask for feed-back on interviews or status updates if you haven't heard anything.
  • Harry Giri
    Its an exceptional peace of work and advise for us looking for various jobs. The way it has summarised the important aspects of an interview, the various types of interviews, the different style of questions and the ways to answer them it’s all incredible for someone who has just started looking for the jobs .
    A Great Big Thank You!
  • Anonymous
    دوره ممتازه وتعلمت منها كل ما يفيد في المقابلات وما يحدث في الحالات العامه وكيفيه التعامل مع الأشخاص والمدربون ممتازون جدا واشكرهم علي النجاح والتوفيق للجميع
  • Anonymous
    The course is meticulously structured, the language is easy to understand and the videos and external links are quite informative.

    I have been equipped with life-long knowledge of succeeding at interviews.

    I can now be an interviewer as well as an interviewee.

    Thank your so much.

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    It has been a while since I last had an interview and I couldn't ask for a better course, it was a fantastic refresher and I would recommend it to anyone preparing for interview. The tutors provide loads of advice, interview practice scenarios, examples, videos, handy study material you can use and refer to in the future. The quizzers and role plays are fun and they all help towards preparing you or getting you up to speed on what to expect, how to react or respond. This is a great way to study within a community of employees, students people from all walks of life in and outside the UK, bouncing off ideas, sharing comments, experiences, advice all in an attempt to improve and develop yourself.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    I found out the course very substantial, factful and extremely usefull for those who are going to prepeare for job interview. The lessons, videos and texts inside are not long that make study easy to access, understand and follow. It seems that high class professionals worked out the course, thank you a lot! Hugs
  • Anonymous
    Fabulous course! Essential for graduates who are starting out their professional journeys and a good refresher for more experienced individuals who are looking for a job.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    The course was all good and fun. It helps boost my confidence. I think I am ready now for an interview. I'm so glad that the first interview happened to me before taking this course. It was all bad and so funny. I laugh at myself for not preparing. Then, thanks to free courses offered by Future Learn, it really improves my social skills. I hope that I'll get hired after this. Hehehe Thank you so much to the University for offering this type of courses. Everyone needs it especially those people who lacks communication skills. Thank you to the University also that they have shown us videos of some HR and gave us information about the people they are looking for and more...
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    Seng Lihou
    This course is really really great for me to improve my situation in any other advanced interviews. and I would like to recommend this course to friends and colleagues to find out what is more important about an interview.
  • Anonymous
    it is interest course and have a lot of Necessary information that person need it before inter the interview
  • Anonymous
    It is very important course for any one to help find a good job

    It's contain all detailed about what should you say and what should you feel what should you dress and the time how to deal with exercises

    Good luck
  • Anonymous
    One of the best course on facing the interview. It gives the complete picture. After complting it, I feel more confident.
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