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Top Tips To Help Software Engineer Graduates During Interviews

by: chelseamichaels
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As a recent graduate you may be experiencing some difficulties within the UK job market especially where any IT market is concerned. The IT explosion has drawn to a close and things have changed since three or four years ago, readily available employment in IT has ended. There are definitely methods you can use to help yourself secure the ideal job especially when interviews can make the difference.

Weak Spots and Development
essential to understand where you require some improvements, if you have programmed only in Haskell and the job available consists of some Object Oriented languages like Java then it’s highly important that you prepare by reading up and start learning by yourself – let your interviewer know and highlight it. This will prove that you are aware that you need to learn and are the type of person who is trying to improve their skill base outside of working hours. Many companies will then take give you more training especially when they see you have a willingness to learn.

Working Experience
If you are straight out of university with very little or not much practical working experience , actually using what you know then, ensure you acknowledge areas such as team projects and any tuition you gave to lower year students as well as highlighting any problems experienced and how you overcame them in your final year. Chances are if you know you have been chosen as only a few interviewees that the company is looking for someone with little experience but lots of fresh innovative ideas. Show that you have confidence! If you don’t then who else will?

Read Up On The Programme In Question
Do not just apply for a job because you have programming experience. If you have a wealth of experience coding in PHP but have not much .NET experience and in the job you’re going for .NET programming is heavily featured in the job role, then do yourself a favour and at least know basic constructs and standard object libraries for .NET.

Be Prepared For A Test
It has been a standard practice to examine an IT applicant to make sure you have the essential practical skills and to see how you react to pressure. Going back to the previous point, it may be easier to understand the test if you know a bit about the background of the person who has set the test for you, so basic research and learning the language is a must.

IT Environment
Ask probing questions about the usual working environment you may find yourself working in, question them about the seating arrangements, if they practice extreme programming, brainstorming or other activities and question if they have strategies to relieve stress! Questions like this show you are sincerely thinking about becoming an employee at the company.

About the Author

Chelsea Butterworth is a part-time writer, writing occassional pieces on online recruitment agency, and specialising in fixed fee, low cost and flat fee recruitment for RecruitmentRevolution.com.

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