The Powerful Interview-Discussion Metrics

One in three (31%) working women in the UK believe men are offered greater opportunities at work, according to research by professional services recruitment firm Badenoch & Clark.
When asked why they believed this to be the case, more than half (57%) of the 1,000 professional women surveyed blamed unconscious bias in the recruitment and promotion process.
The private sector appears to have more of a gender bias issue than the public sector. One in five (20%) women in the private sector said they had been passed over for promotion because of their gender, compared to 8% of women in the public sector.
However, the private sector invests more in leadership development and training for women than the public sector. More than half (58%) of women in the private sector said their organisation had specific leadership training for women, compared to 48% in the public sector.
Badenoch & Clark managing director Nicola Linkleter said that while it is “fantastic” so many employers are “proactively trying to develop their female talent”, the “outcomes” of such programmes needed to be carefully examined.
“Are these programmes leading to more women in senior positions? If not, we need to interrogate why they are not working and do things differently,” she said.

Learn to have meaningful Conversations – let us call them Zensations.These reveal and empower, they detox, they inspire and uplift.And these ought to be between every pair of staff, a disrespecter of class struggles.
Further, processes as employed by F-500 and large MNCs need to be studied and applied even in small and medium extrepreneurial bodies. Then alone excellence shall result. Then alone would efficiencies arise. And then alone would competencies and competitiveness shine through.

Almost all the thespians you appreciate, are perfectionists – they rehearse so much, that at times the final shot that is canned is the one that is the 73rd Take (in movie making parlance). For a live 3 hour performance, Pt Ravi Shanker used to practice on his sitar for consecutive 6-8 such 3 hour sorties; the undrelying condition being NOT a single note had to go wrong on those sorties. Naturally, there was perfection in the ‘real’ performance.

So, if you are going for an interview, try to arrange a few Mocks. These clean your act, empower you, make your though fluid – validate your assumptions, or prompt you to improvise a few responses. Your thinking gets clearer.

Don’t overdo, lest the spontaneity is lost.

In a similar vein, one technique that truly helps is:

Ask yourself 5 questions, and answer them yourself.

This is indeed a great rehearsal.

Watching a videography of your mock reveals a thousand learnings. Watch these 2-3 tiimes at least.