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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

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

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 , since I residing here for a long time.

I don't think that's too relevant, but I would to tell your 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