The first few moments of an interview can be unnerving. However, it needn’t be with these top tips on how to break the ice in an interview. The key to winning at interviews is to enjoy them. Melting an icy atmosphere, will help by making you feel more relaxed and able to perform at your best. Here are my top tips for breaking the ice at an interview.

On the surface, interviewing a candidate for an available job sounds easy. With the job description in hand describing specific skill sets and experience, the recruiter or hiring manager fires off a dozen questions or so and voila, they are equipped to make a hiring decision.

If only interviewing were that simple.