Improving Your Chances

You can improve your performance by preparing for the interview (as indicated in the preceding sections) and by learning from the mistakes you may have made at the interviews you have had. Thus, after the interview, evaluate your performance along the following lines:

1. Did I come across effectively?

2. Where did I flounder and become excessively talkative?

3. Did I keep my cool after a blunder?

4. Was there some basic information I should have known but didn't?

5. Were my prepared responses effective?

6. Did I sell myself, especially my assets, adequately and effectively?

7. Did I establish a good rapport and behave well mannered?

8. Did I seem to show the appropriate interest in the school I was being interviewed at?

9. Was I able to slip in information that I wanted the interviewer to know about me?

10. What would I have done differently?

With honest answers, you can then go on and prepare more effectively for the next interview.