Additional Items
Having recently experienced a number of interviews, I would add the following items:
7. Do your research on the company. I've had one interview recently that seemed to be going well until they asked me what I knew about their company and what they did. Being a Telco, I assumed that I knew what they did... the interview suddenly went very cold. When you do your research, it usually really shows up during the interview.
8. Prepare a list of questions to be asked at an interview. I usually have a list so that even if my questions are all answered during the interview, when they ask me if I have any questions, I can make a show of going through the list and complementing them on their thoroughness of covering all the main points. One good question I've found to ask is, "Tell me about the company culture."
9. Prepare for the stock questions, "Tell us about your biggest success/failure", and "What qualities do you think you will bring to this job." Make sure to use good solid professional work-based examples. There's always one or two that'll catch you out but failing to prepare here can be a real disaster.
I agree with a previous post regarding UK & follow up letters/thankyou letters. I always make a point of thanking the interviewers for their time at the end of the interview, but I'm really not sure that a follow up letter would be seen as particularly welcome - and I can see where this could go disasterously wrong, e.g. mis-spelling names not heard properly during the interview.
