There are no golden rules to ensure your success in an interview because that is largely dependant on your person. However the following points may account for a 100% probability in your interview being successful.

10% Your appearance, your punctuality and your conduct

Always maintain a neat appearance. Your clothes should be ironed, shoes polished and hair neatly combed. Invest in a good perfume and don’t smoke before you go in for an interview. Reach the venue 15-20 minutes before the scheduled time and relax your nerves. Don’t treat any interview as larger than life, but always give it your best shot. Maintain eye contact with your interviewer, it suggests confidence and strength of purpose. Be honest, tactical and subtly forceful about your convictions. Speak slowly and clearly. A positive body language goes a long way in creating an impression on your potential employer.

15% Your preparedness and knowledge about the company and job profile

Be an informed interviewee. Make a list of the possible questions that you may be asked in the interview. Structure answers with all honesty and every bit of information about yourself, your expertise ad your experience that you think is relevant to the question.

Get as much information as you can before you go for the interview. Your interviewer will always be interested to know your take on the company. You can only talk about your potential contribution to the company when you know what it is all about.

55% How you sell yourself

An interview is all about positioning your skills and expertise to the person in front of you in the best possible way with the intention of being hired. Your resume helps to a great extent in doing this but it is your interview that is the decider for the potential employer. Have the facts mentioned in your resume thoroughly etched in your mind, so that if ever the employer cross checks he will not find discrepancies between what you say and what you write. You know yourself best, so when you are asked to talk about yourself emphasize on those points that you feel are most relevant to the job profile. Subtly refer to any added skills if you have any for the job.

15% How you tackle tricky questions

This is the interviewer’s favorite part because it gives him more clarity on your personality. You may be asked to speak about your strengths and weaknesses. Well we all have weaknesses but the interviewer is not interested in knowing about your sleeping habits. If you are a stickler for perfection, sell that as your greatest weakness. When asked about your future plans, stress on the fact that you want to know everything that there is to know regarding the business.

5% Negotiating and reverting

What you think you deserve may vary from what the company is willing to pay you, but you have every right to negotiate the CTC. Be realistic about your demands and before you negotiate clarify with the interviewer regarding what is expected of the job profile and eventually of the most suitable candidate for the profile. Be clear about what you want and what you don’t want. Don’t get agitated while dealing with this part of the interview. Be polite but assertive.

After you are done with the interview, thank the interviewer for his time and for considering you for the job and send him a follow up letter to reassert your interest in the job and to know by when he will have news regarding the result of the interview.

Let’s break a 100% probable success in any interview into 5 basics and see how we can get you to make a happy ending to the dreaded tale of an interview.

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