I’m normally not worried about interviews . My general philosophy is, if I know what I’m talking about I’ll communicate in the clearest way possible and hope for the best.
However I haven’t been in the working/business world for long. I’ve been in school for too long. I have an interview coming up. It will be an hour and a half long and will involve 5 - 8 people. I’ve never had an interview this long and not necessarily with this many people.
Is this common?
What have your interviews been like?
Group interviews stink as you can never really hone in on one people’s specific objective with many others asking you questions too. However it is what it is and you get the benefit of conflicting personalities all trying to have their question answer.
There’s lots of strategy blogs and books about how to tackle these best that you really should at least glance through for some tips but the advice I’d offer up regardless of the format is to walk a few friends through your background.
You are a story, the combination of a number of individual items and that story has to flow in a way that makes sense to let people evaluate your potential value. What have you done at each role? Why did you make each choice? What are you looking for and what do you offer?
The ideal situation is to reverse the process as much as possible. What does the company need from me rather than where was I in 8th grade… Here’s what I do best, here’s what I’m bringing… If that’s a fit, great. Too many people try to bend to get the job but end up coming off as uncertain fits; could they hack it? Why the short roles? It’s so much better when someone delivers a clear statement on what they bring and why.
Group interviews are always terrible, and is just a way to roll interviewing a number of candidates into one short session. To be frank, it’s a stupid idea and these people are doing it because they’re lazy.
To answer the question, I’ve gone into every interview almost expecting the job, because its hard to be confident when you’re…well, not. Naturally, be well-mannered and polite, turn up at most five minutes early and just try to relax a bit. The technical aspects of most interviews are simply to weed out candidates without a hope in hells chance of working as a developer, and believe me, I’ve interviewed some people with twice the experience of me who could barely write a for loop. Just by keeping these things in mind and studying some core texts will have you fly through most interviews.
Normally group interview check you attitude like as what are you talk when interview ask question then tell check your attitude and normally people what are you saying then select the final HR round. I got selection this procedure so be cheerful and go interviews
I searched jobs for ages, couldn’t find anything that i could do then i have started my web desing job and blogs. I even made a jobs interviews site. I had couple of group interviews and they were all fine but difficult and you alwasy get nervous.
To be honest most interiewers are not qualified and they don’t really know what they are asking and they can’t measure your answer. They are still deciding on how you talk and look for the job.
I’ve had over 10 job interviews and generally speaking the worse interviews are the ones which the job has already been promised to somebody else prior to the interview. It’s normally a form of formality that they have these interviews even though they know the job is going elsewhere.
In my opinion you have to talk with confidence on your subject and show them your portfolio. If the interviewers are not experts in your field you have to convince them you are! Once you’ve given this impression you’re likely to have a good stand in getting the job. Also if you know somebody internally to the company be sure to pull your connections in. They come very handy when you need a good word. Be sure you don’t get somebody to speak negatively against you, you have to completely trust the person will say something positive.
Generally speaking one or two person interviews work well. Big interviews, like 6+ people are horrible. I’ve only had one interview like this and the job was already promised elsewhere. I did not have a good experience there, but other interviews went well.
My impression of interviews are of how likeable you are on an first impression basis. In reality they don’t show how well you can work ith others, or how well good you are at your job. Once you have enough experience it becomes less important that you’re likeable, but more important that you have the experience and knowledge to do the job in-hand.
Hope this helps and good luck on your interviews.
I had my first group interview, and I think it was horrible.
Hearing the first 2 interviewees experiences just blew the newbie me.
I know…you get nervous, intimidated, cotton mouth, forget your skills,don’t get your hopes up…don’t expect anything when walking to the hot seat…
So make sure your skills, do most the talking, try and ask what questions you will be asked in the interview on the phone before you show up, Google everything about the companie, facebook the background of the interviewer, help get an idea of who you are facing…
you don’t know what prejudices people hold…it’s all about, how you will fit into their little comfort zone.and putting up with all there ****…the interview is one headache, keeping the job is another…