One more interview. Tired of it but what to do. The interview was brief and didn't take much of my time. Neither were their any queues. I just waited for 5 minutes and then I was asked to get in. I was applying for the post of a Managerial cadre. The office was lovely. What do I do now? I sat on the chair, and handed over my resume to her. She asked me about my past. I told about my education, work experience, my family background etc. She asked me few more questions and she also meanwhile asked me for the salary. I told her. I cannot tell you what I told her. It was a pretty good, decent interview. Nothing out of sync. Then she told me that she will contact back in a few days.
I went out of the interview desk, the automatic door opened and there I was on the road searching for a rickshaw. Right in front of me there was one. I fortunately didn't have to wait for long. They are quite efficient at certain times, and quite negative at certain times. I cannot blame them all. They have their own reasons. I paid the cash and then I took a ticket and from Jogeshwari I moved towards Dadar, my home station; walked over the bridge which I am quite used to by know, walked down the road and there it was I was at home.
My interview, I have to keep fingers crossed.
Hopefully through.
Showing posts with label interview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interview. Show all posts
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Monday, September 6, 2010
Some things about interviews
To interview candidates is not an easy task. It takes a different kind of pain interviewing candidates who themselves don’t know what they want. Each of them makes guess work about each other. If God forbade, things go well, or each are left behind hurt and painful not understanding each other.
Interviewing many candidates, we usually carry a list of questions that we intend to ask. This is what an amateur interviewer would do. He would run to the internet type ‘most usual questions for an interview’ and then ask the questions in order; he will appear to ask them as if they are originally made by him, no plagiarism. The famous question which would have been repeated in so many interviews is ‘Tell me something about you’. This sentence must have repeated so many times it can audaciously stay as a candidate for world record.
When you ask him how he takes interviews he would call it an art, not within the grasp of a layman. Some may call it a process. But we can’t deny that the interviewee has to agree to what he is saying. They even call such interviews eliminatory process, taken by someone who is still new to the world of taking interviews. Don’t buy such signals they are all here to grill you on a barbeque. At last the interview must feel victorious after he has examined you. Only then you stand a chance of proceeding to the next level. We ought to fear more from preliminary round than the final round. The final round is predictable but the preliminary round not so.
Interviewing many candidates, we usually carry a list of questions that we intend to ask. This is what an amateur interviewer would do. He would run to the internet type ‘most usual questions for an interview’ and then ask the questions in order; he will appear to ask them as if they are originally made by him, no plagiarism. The famous question which would have been repeated in so many interviews is ‘Tell me something about you’. This sentence must have repeated so many times it can audaciously stay as a candidate for world record.
When you ask him how he takes interviews he would call it an art, not within the grasp of a layman. Some may call it a process. But we can’t deny that the interviewee has to agree to what he is saying. They even call such interviews eliminatory process, taken by someone who is still new to the world of taking interviews. Don’t buy such signals they are all here to grill you on a barbeque. At last the interview must feel victorious after he has examined you. Only then you stand a chance of proceeding to the next level. We ought to fear more from preliminary round than the final round. The final round is predictable but the preliminary round not so.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Interviewer Vs Interviewed
It seems that more than getting a work clearing an interview is difficult. It is a full time job with no pay. There are so many reasons for not having the interview. Things like the person is not in his place, he has taken off today, he is busy in a meeting, these are common ones. There is a huge barrier between the chap waiting for an interview call and the person who is going to take this interview.
Both come together with different objectives. The person coming for an interview is looking for a high compensation and job satisfaction, while the person who is going to take the interview is looking for a suitable candidate as per the specification he has received. He knows that there are many people in the market who will fulfil the specification. He knows it, that there will be a long queue outside his office who wish to attend the interview and please the panel. When he thinks that there will be queue he sees only 2 to 4 people coming, when he expects none to come he sees all potentially unsuitable candidates lining outside the office.
Both for the interviewer and the interviewed the task is difficult. It is obviously more difficult for the interviewed, because he knows he is the sacrificial goat.
Both come together with different objectives. The person coming for an interview is looking for a high compensation and job satisfaction, while the person who is going to take the interview is looking for a suitable candidate as per the specification he has received. He knows that there are many people in the market who will fulfil the specification. He knows it, that there will be a long queue outside his office who wish to attend the interview and please the panel. When he thinks that there will be queue he sees only 2 to 4 people coming, when he expects none to come he sees all potentially unsuitable candidates lining outside the office.
Both for the interviewer and the interviewed the task is difficult. It is obviously more difficult for the interviewed, because he knows he is the sacrificial goat.
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