Topjobs, Sri Lanka, Middle East and Maldives

Getting through a Job Interview - How to Sell Yourself  in a Winning Style

If you are unable o find a job having faced many interviews it is high time you looked at yourself and be prepared with a better approach for your next topjobs interview. First thing you should understand that it is not a suprise that you do not suceed in a job interview where the subject vacancy does not match or require your existing qualifications & experience. Therefore first you need to be more careful with your job applications because blindly applying to each and every vacancy advertisement will not gain you anything as you are not likely to be called for an interview. Therefore before applying for a job you need to check whether you meet the minimum criteria specified in the job advertisement. Most of the time in Sri Lanka, when a job advertisement is published then employers get so many applications and they will shortlist the candidates based on the minimum qualifications. Therefore you need to be concerned if only you have failed despite you had all the essential qualifications and experience.... continue reading

Writing an Appealing CV/Resume
If you are looking for a job, then you would probably have CV/resume to be used in applying for job vacancies. However did you ever think that using the same format CV/resume for any job vacancy may not be the best way of doing it? It is important that you design your CV/resume for each job application because every employer's expectations are not the same. For intance, if you take "Management Trainee" vacancy, one company may expect to deploy the management trainees in the sales & marketing while the other in manufacturing operations. Therefore you need to carefully anlayse what the advertisement says and highlight your experince, qualifications & other infomation to suite the employer's requirement. It is also important to do a simple analysis of the company also before you prepare your CV. It is always important that you at least visit the Company website before you prepare the job application as it will provide you most of the information about the Company & its ownership.... continue reading

Common Questions asked at the Interviews/span>

It is not possible to say what sort of questions will be asked at an interview as it will depend on many factors including the person who is interviwing and the management style of the Company. However there are very common questions which are generally asked at the interviews. However answers to the common questions can not be the same as they will depend on the job vacancy and the posotion applied for. However some basic guideline for such answers can be provided. Therefore it is important to be prepared for the suitable answers for these common questions in the light of the available information about the company, job and its responsibilities. For instance an interviewer may ask "how do you improve the efficiency of the subordinates?" To answer to this question well, you may have to have some understanding about the culture within the company and its management style. Therefore, you need to have more and more information & awareness about the company, job and its... continue reading