The most crucial step in landing your dream job is to crack the personal interviews. Our objective is to address all the possible questions and probable solutions, and to give you the best interview tips, to equip you for your dream job. We will address some of the basic interview tips to ace the interviews. Let us break this down into a couple of steps.
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1) Review all your suggestions/achievements/initiatives
The first step is to keep all your accomplishments at the top of your mind. So, review everything you have done so far. The next step is to organize your thoughts. For that, remember this format for all your assignments.
Objective-Your Role-Result/Impact-Learnings
In this approach, it will be always easy to speak and express yourself. Secondly, you can segregate your accomplishments into multiple categories such as technical, personality or leadership, community involvement, and contribution. The approach will provide the right structure to your thoughts. You can also refer to this article for a detailed analysis of this approach.
2) Job description
It’s extremely important to read the job description carefully. If you haven’t understood anything, then seek help at this stage. If you are clear with the job description, then only you can relate your accomplishments with the new role and will justify “how you can contribute to the new firm”. Additionally, you can easily identify the challenges and opportunities for you and prepare accordingly, as these are the common questions which you will receive in the interview.
3) Research the Company
Any employer would love this if you are very well researched about them. Do a detailed research about the company, primarily its product or services, recent highlights, values, locations, work culture, and the team where you have applied. The best approach is to connect with someone from the firm and get the firsthand information. LinkedIn is also a powerful platform to connect with employees. You can always mention this in the interview if you really liked something about the company. This will always create a positive impression and will reflect your excitement for the firm.
Additionally, if you want to gain real feedback regarding any company’s culture, then connect with an ex-employee of the firm through LinkedIn and you will definitely get a good picture.
4) Conversation Style
Though it’s a personal interview, you can always make that engaging and make sure it should not end like a monologue. There are a couple of ways to make a conversation interesting and engaging. For example, you can use voice modulation, expressions, taking the right pauses, or using the right connectors such as “that’s a great question”, “I am glad you asked me this” etc. This is one of the best interview tips that you should always follow.
5) Be a great listener
Listening is the most underrated skill, but its the most effective skill. Don’t jump to answer the question immediately even if you know everything. Be an empathic listener and listen to understand. After that, take a pause for a few seconds, gather your thoughts, and then speak. The more you listen actively; the more you will answer calmly and with confidence.
6) Ask if you haven’t understood anything
There is no problem in asking anything if you haven’t understood anything or maybe you couldn’t listen properly. In most cases, you might answer out of context if you will not ask and that will be an awkward situation, where eventually you will have to accept that either you haven’t heard or didn’t understand the question.
7) Reserve your comments if you don’t know anything
In case you don’t know something, then definitely you should acknowledge that. Don’t brag and talk nonsense if you have no idea. A good way to handle such questions is to accept and provide an opinion. Lastly, don’t speak negatively during the interview. They might ask you some questions such as, “What did you dislike about your previous manager”? In this scenario, don’t just start ranting, rather handle this carefully and do mention the problem areas if you feel.
8) Don’t get carried away
This is the most common mistake that we all do. When something is very close to you, you will definitely spend some more time explaining that project, and in that process, you will get carried away. A good way is to take permission beforehand and then speak to the interviewer so that the other person will make up his/her mind to listen to you and you can also showcase your project the way you want.
We hope these interview tips are going to be helpful if you are preparing for any job or college interview. For more guidance, feel free to connect with us and provide your feedback as well, so that we can also improve in the future.
We have given some great interview tips and answered a few questions such as Why do you want to join our company? What is your weakness? What are your strengths? Why should we hire you? etc. Feel free to go through them as well.
