If you’re preparing for interviews, have a look at these two nifty sites:

Be My Interviewer lets you select an interviewer from a panel including Duncan Bannatyne and Ruth Badger through to the HR Director at Virgin Media or Director of Business Advisory Services at Ernst & Young. A streaming video then plays interview questions they typically ask, which you can pause to answer. One of the most useful features is that each interviewer then offers some guidance on what he or she looks for in a model answer to that question – and why they ask it.

Very handy for getting some insights into the questions they choose – most are even assessing your responses to the pleasantries.

At whatwilltheyask.co.uk  a group of graduates at Bristol University got together to create a site where interviewees can post the actual questions they were asked at interview. Initially, the focus was on graduate jobs, but this has grown to include many questions from real interviews for a variety of posts at the big corporates, charities and public sector bodies.

So if you have an interview coming up, look at the site to see if any other applicants have been through the selection process at that company for similar roles before – it will help you prepare more thoroughly and tip you off about anything particularly tricky to watch out for.