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"Interview Well by Knowing What's Coming"

Posted by Penelope Trunk: "One of the biggest mistakes you can make going into an interview is thinking you'll do well because you're perfect for the job.

Everyone who got an interview is a potential perfect fit for the job. That's how they got through the resume screen. The interview is about something else: how you think, how you solve problems, how you react under pressure. And you are never quite sure of the quality the interviewer will focus on until you get a few questions.

Until now. Now Glassdoor has launched an interview resource where you can report what sorts of questions you got from a given employer. This is a great moment in altruism, really, because you are helping other people to get a job without knowing how doing so will help you. So I like Glassdoor's new idea right away, because of that. Because the very being of this tool assumes that people want to help each other.

I've sifted through lots of the questions and the first thing I noticed was that 90% of them are the kind you can study for. That's because they are all versions of common questions, just like those I see in books that list the 200 most common interview questions (here's one). And, as always, you might think your interview will be a special case but it won't be. You can learn the right answer for each question and just tailor it to your own career.

You can also learn from Glassdoor what sort of interview a given company favors. There is a tag cloud on the interview home page that is a laundry list of interview genres: behavioral, brain teaser, technical, and so on. For example, Microsoft is renowned for brain teasers (here's a book to study for those) and Deloitte is known for behavioral interviews (yes, you can study for that, too)...

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Source: Penelope Trunk's Brazed Careerist, 14 May 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).