The aim of a job interview is to establish whether you arelikely to do well in a particular job in a specific organization. This isnot only a matter of

having the necessary technical knowledge and skill. You __1__

must also have the motivation, the ability to adapt to

new ways of working and a new working environment, and__2__

the personality to do the job and fit into a new team.

But there are other personal skills affect your success __3__

in a job. These include getting on with people, oral or __4__

written communication, team working, problem solving and good time management.

Most people think that interviewers know what they

are looking for and will recognize when they see it. __5__

However, people are actually not very good at assessing

one and another. This applies to recruiters as much as __6__

anyone else. In fact a former head of selection at one big firm used to say that "some interviewersare so poor they would do better to rely on chances."

In companies which recognize this, various methods are

used to try to find the correct person. The most common __7__

is the structured interview. Research has shown that

this approach is more reliable than the ordinary job

interniew, though not as affective as using tests or __8__

assessment centers. In a structured interview, the

interviewer groups the qualities listing in the job __9__

specification under various headings. There are two well-established structures for this: the NationalInstitute of Industrial Psychology's Seven-Point Plan

the Five-Fold Grading System. The interviewers score

candidates for how well they fit the job specification. __10__