Often as a potential employee attending an interview, it is easy to find helpful tips and advice on what you may need to ask and how you should conduct yourself during the interview, but as an interviewer you may also need some assistance and feel that you could do with some advice and pointers.

When it comes to carrying out interviews, it is all about preparation. You will probably have already read through all the CV’s and covering letters of the applicants that are going to be attending. From this I would strongly recommend highlighting any sections on their CV that you wish to discuss with them in detail. This could be something such as a gap in their employment history or extra qualifications or training they have done that you want to explore further.

Make sure that you have a set of questions in which you want to ask everyone as this will give you something to compare when you are looking through all the candidates at the end of the interview process to find out who you want to invite back for a second interview or offer the job to.