how to get ready for a job interview

by Shadowmaster on 13/02/10 at 9:32 pm

how to get ready for a job interview

The time has come (once again) and you starts to look for a new job.…as this step requires your skills as office sur­vivor as you have to use your brain in order to “van­ish” from work and in order to get the answers you want and most chances the inter­viewer don’t want to tell you.

This arti­cle deals mostly in the part of get­ting what you need to know, but I’ll put some effort on using some office pol­i­tics to allow you goes to inter­views while you are working.

The hard­est things to do while you work is to mostly to answer phones, get­ting out of work, and off course know­ing what we want to know about a poten­tial place. In order to do so we have to use every tech­niques there is and to use our office pol­i­tics’ head in order to sur­vive in the office while doing all the above.

Answer­ing the phone – it’s pretty hard to answer the phone the moment it rings as vacant jobs in the morn­ing turned out to be by after­noon. Answer­ing fast is the whole dif­fer­ent between stay­ing at your place and mov­ing on, but how can it be done when dur­ing work times?

Pass the word around at your office that you are rent­ing a room in your place, or look­ing for a new place and you have to take the call… this allows you to get out of the room and talk freely.

Going to the inter­view in the mid­dle of the day — next step is to go to an inter­view, it can be done after or before work­ing hours, but again as it’s known good places are taken in speed of light, so what can be done? Well, as you got know what is needed to sur­vive and how to use the office pol­i­tics you con­tinue with your cover story….

Some­one is com­ing to see the place” or “I have to go and see this vacant place” adding to those sen­tences “I’m plan­ning to stay over­time tonight, so the work will be done, there is noth­ing to worry about”.

So what do we have till now, a rea­son to answer the phone and using that rea­son to get out of work in the mid­dle of the day. Doing some work before the inter­view – Google, this is the magic word , try to look for arti­cles, stock mar­ket reports , ref­er­ences , every­thing you can about the place you are going to be inter­view at.

Your pre work helps you to under­stand with whom you are deal­ing and some­times even how much you can pres­sure them to get what you want. In case of pri­vate com­pa­nies there is 0% you’ll find any infor­ma­tion about even flow cash reports, and some infor­ma­tion about their investment.

There are some chances you won’t find any infor­ma­tion regard­ing the new office as it might be a new com­pany but remem­ber to look at the man­agers’ expe­ri­ence as it can show you what they are capa­ble to do. Google can help you find infor­ma­tion regard­ing peo­ple but you can use an extra tool called linkedin, as this will help you to know who is asso­ciate with the man­agers and what is their record.

Being inter­viewed — it’s inter­view time, remem­ber to come dressed prop­erly (not a wed­ding style but a clean and ele­gant wear) and also remem­ber to ask ques­tions, as most of the peo­ple who comes to an inter­view don’t know what to ask or not aware of the impor­tance in ask­ing questions.

Ask who are the man­agers and what is their expe­ri­ence as this will help you to deter­mine with whom you are going to work and what they might expect from you, also don’t for­get to ask about invest­ments (in pri­vate com­pa­nies) and for how much time they can work with the money from the investors. In case the com­pany you are inter­view for is new try to see if there are any teams or are you going to estab­lish one, also find out if there are cus­tomers or prod­ucts that already exists.

Another thing you should ask is about the hier­ar­chy of the com­pa­nies and how do they plan to tutor you in case you’ll start work­ing with them.

There are some more ques­tions but they depends on the posi­tion you are being inter­viewed for and can be change from posi­tion to posi­tion , the above points meant to give you proper ques­tions that you should ask in order to know what you are get­ting into.

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