Interview tips

I just had an interview, went pretty well. A bit stressful, 2 people doing the interview, tag teamed me. Answering their questions was like watching tennis...

I don't believe in all this silly HR posturing stuff that goes 'tell me about a difficult situation and how you overcame it' as if the person is any good they will have learned an answer and there's no way of checking if it's true. There really is an interview industry. On the few times I've interviewed I like people who act normally, not pushy, who don't gild the lily and who just act themselves. Brash overconfidence turns me off. Helps if there's something like 'rides motorcycle' on the CV - but there rarely is, I think cos peeps think it would put an employer off.

Originally Posted by Razor

I just had an interview, went pretty well. A bit stressful, 2 people doing the interview, tag teamed me. Answering their questions was like watching tennis...

That sounds much like the interview for my current job. Only in my case there were three.

The third one opened batting by looking at my CV and saying "OK, you don't know blah, blah, or blah, tell me, why should I bother even talking to you?"

I still managed to get in though

Good luck to Razor & cuffy!

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Ed

I don't believe in all this silly HR posturing stuff that goes 'tell me about a difficult situation and how you overcame it' as if the person is any good they will have learned an answer and there's no way of checking if it's true. There really is an interview industry. On the few times I've interviewed I like people who act normally, not pushy, who don't gild the lily and who just act themselves. Brash overconfidence turns me off. Helps if there's something like 'rides motorcycle' on the CV - but there rarely is, I think cos peeps think it would put an employer off.

Funny thing is that I was thinking that my CV could do with a review - been a year since I last looked at it and you never know when a Baph-like situation might happen (ie someone asks you for a copy of your CV - gratz by the way mate). I will DEFINATELY be putting my having gained my bike license on my next CV.

As it is my bosses find it useful as I can now get from West London to Docklands in an hour - rather than 2 hours

David

Update to my situation:

Just had an interview for the position of Java Developer. The person interviewing me, basically said the following:

"Well, this is stupidly easy for me. You already know the company, you know what we do, you know the procedures, what you don't know is that I've been talking behind your back to people like Garth [company chairman], and we've agreed that you should have a safety net behind you. Something that if it doesn't work out, you still have a job with us, somewhere. You'll probably just go straight back to your current position, but maybe we could talk about another department, I know TestRel are keen to have you. What's your take on this?"

So I replied saying that if the safety net was there, I'd be happy to take a payrise, and said how much I'd be prepared to move over for.

It seems that from next monday I'm a code monkey again! (but earning more money!)

Good luck to all those applying for jobs, or still looking at the signs by the cross-roads!

[Luckypants]

Congrats!! \/

[Viney]

So baph...you work for Starbucks?

I have an interview this friday. I have to do a Competancy based interview, and a 15 minute presentation to the manager and 2 others on staff development, process implementation and selling the products and services of the production department....great!!

Originally Posted by Viney

So baph...you work for Starbucks?

I wish NDA's are a pain in the rear, and with more & more contracts going live, that means more NDA's.

But now I'm moving to an area of the company away from live data, no more NDA's for me Also no on-call work, and no shift patterns.

Maybe another few bonuses in the pipeline if this works out too.

I had an interview yesterday with an agency. Why are recruitment consultants all about 12 these days?

Feedback from my Tuesday interview, they want to see me again tomorrow at one of their facilities. Seems the tag team interview approach works for them. Anyway we'll see how it goes

Originally Posted by Razor

I had an interview yesterday with an agency. Why are recruitment consultants all about 12 these days?

Feedback from my Tuesday interview, they want to see me again tomorrow at one of their facilities. Seems the tag team interview approach works for them. Anyway we'll see how it goes

Hope it goes well tomorrow! Sounds very promising Good luck!