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December 04, 2007
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Interview is a two-way communication process between the Interviewer
and the candidate. In a recruitment process, an interview is often the
last stage of selection, held after Written Test, Group Discussions etc.
But there are also situations, when only Interview is conducted, when hiring managers believes with your resume content that you can be a good match for the job they are offering e.g. in Walk-in Interview.
Also there are interviews in which Interviewer and the candidate do not sits in front of one another across a table but conducts the interview over phone – in Telephonic Interview. But for a fresher a Telephonic Interview is rare.
An Interview is conducted by the Interviewer so as to fill their need of the right employee – so when you are called for an interview, Interviewer is not doing you exactly a favour – just as you need the job, they also needs you, provided you can satisfy their requirement.
What are these requirements?
An honest, intelligent, hardworking and loyal individual, who has the knowledge (or have the aptitude to acquire the knowledge) for the job on offer and who would love to work with the existing employees of the organization as a team for the growth of the organization.
As summarized above therefore, it is not very difficult for you to satisfy the requirements of the Interviewer, provided you prepare for the interview: know about the organization by visiting their website or through other sources, try as much as possible to find the job content of the job on offer and try to match that with your knowledge and experience.
You must also display your honesty, intelligence, loyalty and hardworking capacity when Interviewer poses questions to you. There are some questions, which are almost always asked, list of which you can find at the end of this article. To prepare for the interview, it would be a god idea if 3 to 4 of your friend’s get-together and conduct mock interviews with the questions in this list.
In one of the interactive sessions with students, the VP of a very reputed company remarked: “What hiring manager’s loves to see is hunger in your eyes to get the job on offer”. You should take note of this very good piece of advice and use it when a chance is presented before you.
But there are also situations, when only Interview is conducted, when hiring managers believes with your resume content that you can be a good match for the job they are offering e.g. in Walk-in Interview.
Also there are interviews in which Interviewer and the candidate do not sits in front of one another across a table but conducts the interview over phone – in Telephonic Interview. But for a fresher a Telephonic Interview is rare.
An Interview is conducted by the Interviewer so as to fill their need of the right employee – so when you are called for an interview, Interviewer is not doing you exactly a favour – just as you need the job, they also needs you, provided you can satisfy their requirement.
What are these requirements?
An honest, intelligent, hardworking and loyal individual, who has the knowledge (or have the aptitude to acquire the knowledge) for the job on offer and who would love to work with the existing employees of the organization as a team for the growth of the organization.
As summarized above therefore, it is not very difficult for you to satisfy the requirements of the Interviewer, provided you prepare for the interview: know about the organization by visiting their website or through other sources, try as much as possible to find the job content of the job on offer and try to match that with your knowledge and experience.
You must also display your honesty, intelligence, loyalty and hardworking capacity when Interviewer poses questions to you. There are some questions, which are almost always asked, list of which you can find at the end of this article. To prepare for the interview, it would be a god idea if 3 to 4 of your friend’s get-together and conduct mock interviews with the questions in this list.
In one of the interactive sessions with students, the VP of a very reputed company remarked: “What hiring manager’s loves to see is hunger in your eyes to get the job on offer”. You should take note of this very good piece of advice and use it when a chance is presented before you.
If you are a fresher and have never faced an interview before, may be you would love this post of mine on Job interview preparation materials - Interview Tips, which is a collection of youtube videos on Interview Preparedness by "Denham Resources".
Following
Video by Frank Furness - international speaker and trainer gives you an
interesting way to look at interview: He divides types of interviewer
into four different categories as below and tells you what short of
questions you can expect from them:1). Gut Instinct Interviewers.
2). Personal and Feeling Interviewers.
3). Conversational Interviewers.
4). Behavious based Interviewers.
Naturally if you can satisfy what they are looking for, you get the job… simple, is not it
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