The hardest interview in my life

I have experience of being interviewed as well as interviewing. Usually the process is straight forward – there is set of standard questions that normally asked, you simply prepare the best possible answers and make sure to cover it all in interview. Of course, there are some tricky questions as “what is your biggest disadvantage? Or why do you think we should hire you?” Answers for those questions should be found in the job description itself. Basically your task is to show your potential employer that you suit job perfectly. At the final stage of interview process it will all come down to weather you have established connection with your potential employer or not.

However, my last interview to one of the IT Company was the most difficult interview in my life. The difficulty was that employer built up questions from my answers and was looking for more and more details on every statement I was making. At the end of the day I didn’t get a job, I am not sure what the reason was exactly. Nevertheless, there are few key points that I picked up from that experience:

1) Be prepared! Even though I did my homework before interview there were some tricky questions like: what you want to do in 5 years? Why you want to do it? What do you think this job will involve? What expectation you will have from that job?....
2) When you are answering question make sure that you are answering true and you would be able to explain any detail of your answer. For example: I did training on one of the sales techniques and the question was please describe what this technique all about. Because training was nearly 4 years ago, I barely remember about it. In this case it is up to you weather you want to go along and try to remember and explain or just simply say – Sorry it was so long time ago, I simply don’t remember- which is also good option.
3) Don’t say too much, simply answer the question. If you will go in too broader answer you are risking ending up with too many questions that could be difficult to answer.
4) Try answering in sort of directive/navigate way – to make sure you are asked questions you want to answer. This is very hard to do on practice, however with lots of preparation possible. For example: I was doing training on one of the sales techniques few years ago and remember perfectly what it was about. Even more, I finished it with distinction. It is a good time to mention that I finished training and end result was marked. Be sure, question – what was your grade will follow, that will give you extra opportunity to shine!

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