ARMPD- Lecture No. 23 (Interview Skills)

Interviews

Why do employees want to have an interviewing session?

-To see the communication flow.

-To find out certain things which are not presented in the CV.

-To find out the personality of the person. etc.

TYPES:

Mostly interviews are one-to-one based talk. Sometimes the interviewer can me more than one person and their objective is to rate the interviewee. Eye contact should be there with whom the question is asked or not to show that what you say is true. Interviews also can be conducted in panels. We also need to challenge our selves to get the “Smile of approval” from the panel.

GROUP INTERVIEWS

An informal Q and A session is conducted where certain candidates are chosen. Here in this type of interview, the candidates are expected to ask questions to one of the chief workers who are conducting this session. The questions should be more successful, and also should ask queries in such a way that you are a positive and enthusiastic person to the company.

Informal chats.

:::::Chronological interviews

This type of interview basically gets the full picture of the candidate asking questions such as based on the life events. Starting from the school age the group chosen for higher secondary, later path chosen to study in college and if there are any changes in between they would ask to explain why with reasons.

:::::Criteria based interviews

Seek for evidence where the candidate passes their criteria (company’s) based on their expectation from the candidate who is being interviewed.

As computing students, the lecturer also said that we would be tested based on the technical skills.

:::::Telephone interviews

In this type of interview, the candidates are being short listed. Its a good way of getting to know the communication skills of the interviewee via telephone call. Certain things need to be followed when engaged in a telephone interview,

A time needs to be set based on the availability of the interviewee.

The surrounding needs to be quiet while attending the telephone call.

Dress up in a formal way such that when the interviewee speaks over the phone a professional tone can be got via the phone call.

Don’t take the call when you are relaxed or lying on a couch, if so it can turn into a casual interview.

How are you being JUDGED?????? :::::

Only if you know your self well, based on that your answers can be given out easily. This thus creates a good impression to the person who is interviewing you.

Certain facts which need to be followed:

• Check availability: Confirm then and there if you can make it for an interview.

• Show enthusiasm: If the interviewee happens to get two interviews to attend on the same day, its good if that individual can inform the other party so that there is a demand for that particular individual.

• Confirm your time: Being present.

• Go a little bit early before the time estimated for the interview so that the nervousness can be vanished. 

1st impression:

Its a face that it takes 2 minutes nearly to get to know about a person’s personality. If that impression is negative, that individual will have to face nearly 6-8 meetings to get that impression cleared. 

Certain follow ups,

• Make sure you are dressed up well.
• Don’t have a heavy meal before going into the interview.
• Cleanliness needs to be followed.
• Don’t have a bad breath. Make sure if you are a smoker its good that you don’t smoke that day.
• Avoid piercing and tattooing. 
• Know your organization well. Gather information about the company form the website may be.
• Look at the organization’s website to get to know things like (what sort of customers do they posses?……. financiers…….. do they have franchises..)etc. 
• Talk to some people who have worked in the organization or remaining at the workplace in order to get to know about the background of the company.
• Basically, its good to do a Google research about the company to get to know the recent changes made by the company.
• Read the organization’s company annual report, issues and current financial situations.
• Get to know about the company well because there is always a sure question asked by the interviewer about the company at the end of the interview or anywhere in between.
• Match the expectations of the company which you can offer.
• Definite questions: Like asking to talk about yourself. Limit the time to 1.05 minutes.

Reflection of the lecture

Today we discussed about Interviews. One day when we go into the corporate world we ll have to face interviews and it could be a crucial moment in our lives. The reason is if we fail to face the interview in a proper manner no matter how educated you are it will pointless. It is important to make a good first impression because if the first impression is bad then the interviewers will judge that person  as a person who has a bad personality. Therefore it is important to make note of all the facts mentioned above before facing an interview. Therefore i hope to implement these skills in the future which will judge my future career.