Chalkboard Magazine Volume 4 | Page 45

Personality Traits Being friendly and approachable is a key trait, it demonstrates how a companies team dynamic will be effected by you joining their team. Ensure that you use your English language skills by using words, phrases and sentences that you are familiar with. This way you will be more comfortable with supporting them with a smile or eye contact. ! ! If you are concentrating too much by throwing big words around you will have bad use of intonation and probably not support them with any physical attribute.! ! In these economic times it is difficult to just rely on your academic qualifications, someone who has the same level of qualifications as you do and provides the same answers as you do at an interview may get the job because their personality traits were simply better than yours. The only way to improve this is by drawing some comparisons between your mother tongue and the English language. I would expect that their are similarities between how we react to a situation and by this I mean surprise, enthusiasm, humor etc.! ! This may sound obvious but it’s often omitted. The final ingredient to this is “practice”. !