interview

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