The latest UK unemployment figures - which show that nearly 2.4 million people signed on in the second quarter of 2009 - reinforces the need for job seekers to brush up on their interview skills.
With vacancies few and far between, and competition fiercer than ever, jobseekers need to give themselves every advantage they can when competing for a job.
More employers are incorporating psychometric testing in their recruitment process as a means of filtering out unsuitable candidates. This trend looks set to continue as personnel departments receive an increasing number of applications for a reducing number of vacancies.
Although it is impossible to revise for psychometric tests, a little time spent on researching how they work will help candidates to become more familiar with the tests and this can, in turn, provide a boost to their confidence.
The advice comes after figures released by the Office for National Statistics revealed that unemployment rose by 281,000 in the three months to June, bringing the UK jobless rate to 7.6%.
Only Wales saw a fall in unemployment during the same period with 1,000 less people signing on for Jobseekers Allowance.
Around 107,000 people are now out of work in Wales, or 7.5%.