Interviews and cracking them.

studentphil

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Well, Hallelujah, and hopefully now you'll be able to get a life ... and spend less time online! When do you start?

And while I agree that preparation is a good thing, it is LIKE an exam in that you don't KNOW what the questions are going to be, so learning answers is not necessarily going to get you very far!

6th AUG for my training.

I will be too busy to be here as much, yeah!

It is like an exam in that you can get rough answers in your mind that help you with the specific questions.

*srjp*

I must say I'm agreed with Phil, and think some of you are taking his advice too literally. The average [graduate] job interview these days is completely focused on competencies, eg, 'when did you show leadership?', 'when did you overcome a challenge?'..
If you have examples of such events prepared in your head you can tailor these to the specific question when it is asked. You don't learn an 'answer' verbatim, but merely consider a situation where you demonstrated something positive.
If you have not prepared, then chances are you will sit there saying 'um, erm, um..' while you try to mentally scan the last decade of your life - not a good look and plenty of awkward silence which will only stress you out!

I did a 'milk-round' of interviews last year and found it useful to keep a note of the sort of questions asked and events in my life which I could apply to these.

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I found a lot of good advice on monster.com before I did my last job interview.. questions like this are good to prepare for:
http://content.monster.co.uk/13710_en-GB_p1.asp

However, very few of these questions came up on my first graduate job out of uni. I had to face a panel of 7 people, 5 of which were university professors, as they fired questions at me ranging from artificial intelligence to molecular genetics.

Yes, make some notes. No - don't have 'pre-written answers' to questions