How to be Successful with NGO Job interview
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Come with a job description
to the job interview. Do not ask the interviewer for a job description. Most
of the international NGO will ask you to provide as a job description. To look that you are well prepared,
motivated, you must carry a copy of the job description, your resume and
application sent to the interview. It is also advisable that you have a copy of
the job description as the time of your job application to apply professionally.
Be prepared for short
interview notice. The hiring organization does not do this just because of
poor planning but to test you if you can work under pressure in little time. This
is mostly how the international NGOs work . They deliver service under pressure
and time with not enough time to learn the job or the crisis situation such as
disaster and armed conflict.
Take not of the
cultural differences. Speak very well and do not feel shy. The interviewers
understands most of the cultural issued but you need also to lay your part.
Be prepared to speak
in more than one language in an interview. Most of the international NGO
requires two languages English and a national language. Be ready to answer the interview questions in any of the
languages.
Be able to forecast what
question that you may be asked in an interview. Look at the most frequently
asked questions or common interview questions and prepare how you are going to
answer them.
Formulate your
answers and practice before the interview with a friend or try with a
mirror in front of you.
Prepare your answer
with STAR level or CARL level. To answer
interview questions appropriately, you
must answer inform of brief situation or context, give the action that you have
taken as individuals, then what was the results of your action and finally the
lesson that you have learned from those actions.
Show that you are
competent for the job. Show that the
you have the right skills and competence by refereeing to the ones put in place
in the job descriptions. The qualifications, the skills and the experience that
they are looking for.
Never try to answer phone
interview question from prepared ones. Be genuine and try to remember what
you have practiced from.
Do internet research on
how to answer the common interview questions.
Never response
questions with no examples.
Don’t lie about your own achievements.
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