Question: It’s best to arrive how early before an interview?
- 1 hour
- 30 minutes
- 10 minutes
- 1 minute
Answer: The answer is C. If you said an hour, you must be one of those people that arrive at airports hours
before your plane is scheduled to take-off. And if you said one minute, you must be one of those "last minute"
kind of people. These two answers are extremes, but they happen all the time.
You should plan on arriving about 10 minutes before the start of the interview. This amount of time gives
you a little slack for unexpected events (such as the elevators not working) and time to complete an
employment application or other paperwork before the interview.
Before we leave this subject, one more tip: plan ahead! Make sure you know the exact location of the
interview -- and even take a practice run if you’re not sure about it. We know one job candidate who
was going to her most important interview -- the job and company of her dreams -- but the night
before the interview she realized she wasn’t really sure where the office
was located and instead of doing something about it, she just "winged it" the next day and showed
up about 30 minutes late and did not even get an interview, let alone the job.
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