Interview Preparation

Interview Best Practices

  • Be Authentic

    • Don’t lie but this does not mean you have to tell everything.

    • Be Strategic and concise.

  • Sell Yourself

    • Focus on preparing authentic answers that highlight your greatest strengths.

    • Tell good, authentic, relevant stories about your experience.

  • Be Concise

    • Don’t bore interviewers with the long answers.

    • Don’t go beyond 2 minutes for a single answer.

    • If you bore them, you lose them.

    • Emphasise your most impressive points.

  • Show Enthusiasm

    • Demonstrate convincing enthusiasm for the company and the position.

    • Ask Questions

    • Be Motivated

Common Mistakes

  • Lack of Professionalism

    • Never be late for an interview

    • How you Dress matters.

    • How you present yourself.

    • Job Etiquette like saying Thank You.

  • Lack of Preparation

    • Analyzing Job Interviews

    • Thinking to key questions before Job Interview

    • Good Behavioural Stories

  • Lack of Content

    • Lame descriptions

    • Lcck of Preparation

    • Don’t give generic answers.

  • Negativity

Types of Inerviews

Phone Interview

  • The one to one in Person Interview

  • The Video Interview

  • The Panel Interview

  • The Group Interview

Types of Interviewers

  • External Recruiter: Doesn’t work for the company but can assign people to the company and get paid.

  • Internal Recruiter or HR Rep: Part of the Company and generally check for the authenticity and personality.

  • The Hiring Manager: Can dig deeper into the technical Questions and even for the personality.

  • Senior Level Management: More likely to see the work or hands-on experience and will check for the potential people.

  • Direct Report: You might be interviewed with someone who will work for you.

You need to do

  • Building Report

  • Showing Respect for the current Team

  • Show respect for the way they do things now.

  • Hope for the best.

Analyzing the Job Description

Note

A written description of the qualifications, duties and responsibilities of a position.

  • Work your network to find out more about the position.

  • Try searching the job description for the similar roles at similar companies.

  • Customizing your approach is the key to standing out from the pack.

To create your Job Description

  • Identify Competencies: Highlight the description of the position multiple times in form of your work experience.

  • Identify Themes: Most important of your work should be at the top which will also include the demand of the company.

  • Identify your Selling Points: Emphasize your strengths and be prepared for the weaknesses.

  • Identify Gaps or Issues: be Honest, Identify your weakness, what could be perceived as weaknesses by others.

  • Anticipate Question

Answering Inappropriate Questions

Tip

  • Decline or deflect the questions that include the following topics

  • Gender, Age, Marital Status, Where you are from, originally.

Where you are from originally?

I think I am <Your current location>, since I residing here for a long time.

I don’t think that’s too relevant, but I would love to tell you more about my programming experience.

General Standards

  • Dress a little bit more formally, than the company’s dress code.

  • Hair and nails should be clean and groomed

  • Your dress should be clean and wrinkles free.

  • Wear knee lengths skirts.

  • If you are not asked to wear suit, avoid it.

  • At last make it your choice.

Why dressing is important

  • To reduce distractions

  • Not to let people judge you based upon your dress.

  • They could listen more about your skills.

Overcoming Nerves

  • Do your homework

    • Practice more and keep a not of your points

    • Don’t repeat the same words time and again

  • Accentuate the Positive

    • Fake Smile can create positive impact but only if you can smile internally.

    • Don’t think more or out of context during the interview process.

  • Psyche yourself up