Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Very Creative Interview Help on Doing Really Well in an In-person Interview

By Chris Everett


The hardest thing for many interviewees in second interviews is to quickly decide how to differentiate their replies from the answers they gave in the very first interview or phone screen. If there are a different group of people in the second interview than there were in the first (which is usually the case), automatically assume they know absolutely everything that was said in the first interview because worst case scenario is, assuming you do well in the second interview, you have given extra useful information which will help you get hired rather than simply being repetitive which highlights the need to make to the maximum of the seoncd interview questions you are asked. By this point you have likely seen the corporate environment which should ideally provide valuable knowledge about the general atmosphere and probably particular details you can use to your own benefit if you are the type of person who can quickly adjust on short notice.

One of the further great advantages of showing up early for an interview is you have enough time to review corporate bulletin-boards for reports, quarterly reports and pamphlets you can read to get extra facts about them. There's some type of business literature in the waiting room such as newsletters and annual reports that list purchasers, top achievements from the last period, worker names that you may recognize from another area of your life such as volunteer activities, college or sports, and other engaging nuggets of info which you can place in the interview where acceptable. The corporate notice boards could have announcements about social events, retirements, transfers and promotions that show information regarding key players and office mobility.

A superb means of taking a novel approach to answering second interview questions is to picture yourself in the position and ask about the experience of working for the company. Is representative of a 180 degree turn from the normal process of THEM asking YOU situational based questions. Remember how you often have to stop and pause for a second to think carefully about your answer to one of those situational based questions? Only a few individuals ask those questions of them so they could be shocked by the method. This will require them to vary from script and provide unprompted responses that are more natural and correct than the answers they give to the more frequently asked questions they have recently been asked several times throughout the candidate selection process.

Take the example of somebody trying for an administrative position at a mid sized company. This person can ask situational based questions like: Will I be working in one specific department or is there opportunity to help other areas when they are clearly shorthanded? In past positions I handled telefone duties - Does this vacancy have a large amount of phone calls? Is there the chance to assist in that area if needed? I see you are opening a location in another part of the city - Do you need me to help there too , because I am able to do that. I see you publish yearly reports, newsletters and regular web site and social media updates, I took a course in design and love writing. If you want help I'm willing to help.

Start a list of the positive points stressed in these four questions. You stated your desire to help the group wherever required multiple times. Your potential from possessing a selection of highly valuable talent sets is enhanced by your indicated willingness to work in different environments. If you have these further valuable talents that is a bonus, particularly in those smaller companies where generalist tendencies are much more likely to be valued. Most importantly, you show that you are eager to work for this corporation!




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