When it comes to
applying for a job, interviews and questions come to your mind. A venue is
given and a time. You prepare for some of the usual and basic questions asked
in an interview, beforehand, and when the day finally arrives, you put on your
suit and briefcase and head off. The pretty usual job interview, but that’s just one type of interview that we know
of. There are many different types of job
interviews that a lot of us don’t know of and each of them is handled
differently.
So you’d like to know these
other types of interviews? We have prepared a list of 8 types of job interviews and also given some tips on how to handle
each of them in the correct way.
The structured interview:
This is the interview
probably all of those who have applied for a job once in their lives, have gone
through. A set of standard questions are asked from every candidate, like
‘Describe yourself’ and ‘Why do you wish to work here?’ Do good research on the company you applied
for and assess your skills and how they apply to the particular job. Be
confident but don’t wing it!
The behavioral interview:
As the name suggests,
this type of job interview is
conducted specifically to assess an interviewee on how he or she usually
responds to a particular situation. Think of a couple of situations you
experienced either at your previous job or in life, before the interview and
describe in detail how you dealt with them and if the interviewer makes up a
situation for you to handle, be firm and confident and make a plan to let the
interviewer know how you would do things.
The situational interview:
In this particular
interview, one or more situations are given to you for the interviewer to
determine how you think, react and solve problems in real time, given a short
time to absorb the situation. Here, you don’t have to tell the interviewer that
you’ll simply solve all the problems given in the case. Instead, be realistic
and tell them exactly how you’ll be able to handle the case.
Non-directive interviews:
Such interviews are not
pre-planned. There’s no order to the questions asked, like the structured
interviews, and each new question asked may be derived from the previously
asked question. These types of interviews require you to think quick and
effectively. Of course, you’ll at least know what the questions may be relevant
to.
Stress interviews:
As simple as it sounds,
interviewer will try to induce stress with the questions to see how you handle
stress. The interview may get heated up but you’ll know it’s just to make you
uncomfortable and bring out your problem solving techniques and answers to
those questions so try to stay relaxed.
Panel interviews:
In many interviews,
there’s usually a single interviewer, but in panel interviews, there are about
3 to 5 or more interviewers, depending on the company. It can be quite
intimidating as each of them ask different questions and judge accordingly, all
firing one after the other. The trick is to stay calm and answer each of them.
Telephone interviews:
Usually you get a call
after applying at a company and that call is sometimes a short interview. Phone
interviews are one level below the in-person interviews. Give a good phone
interview if you want to be called for a one on one interview. Sometimes the
interview call is a surprise call and you have to be prepared for it. Other
times you’re told about the call.
Video call interviews:
With the current
technology and online era, now-a-days, a lot of job interviews are done over the internet with many voice-over-IP
and video call applications, giving a sense of the traditional one on one
interview.
Over-a-Meal interview:
Not so common but still
prevalent, this type of interview is more of a casual, but still a job interview. Contains usually the
same questions asked in structured interviews but in a more light way.
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