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Jason Mance Gordon
The Business Professor
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Now continuing on in our interview format series, I want to talk to you about the sequence
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of interviews and how they come up. Well generally with larger companies, the interview process will begin by some form
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of networking event or some form of informational interview. That's when you get to meet with individuals or representatives of the company
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Sometimes they'll be the individual empowered with hiring but sometimes not. But you'll meet with these individuals, it gives you the opportunity to converse with
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them, to make yourself known, to pass your card or your resume in some situations
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But you're able to ask questions about the company, learn about it and again, just familiarize yourself
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Now, this person will generally take note of you, they'll keep your resume and card
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Sometimes they'll document the situation and oftentimes they'll even encourage you to apply
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Especially when you come across these through career fairs or through on campus recruiting
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efforts, things like that. They'll make you aware of when the timeline for applying for the next cycle of internships
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or new employees coming on when that timeline is and encourage you to apply In some situations say feel free to reference me in that situation which again is an exceptional
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benefit for you in that situation. So that's the informational interview. In that situation you're trying to do the things that we discussed in the elevator pitch
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You're keeping it conversational, you're demonstrating your value proposition without seeming boastful or bragging
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But again, you're trying to create a level of commonality with that individual that makes
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them want to help you. Just do not forget to ask questions of them personally as well as the company because
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collectively that together can again establish that fit and rapport that you're looking for
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So that's the informational interview. Now, once they've received your resume, once they understand that you want to apply for
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the position or at least interview for the position, the initial interview will often
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times be a screening interview. Sometimes this is done over the phone, sometimes it is done via Skype
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More often than not it comes from the human resources group and larger companies or firms
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that they calling to find out information about you Now they give you a great deal of information about the next stage the in person interview or even maybe a follow on interview or Skype interview with say the manager you be
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working with or the team leader or the project leader or whoever you'll be working with
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But again, the screening interview will want to find out specific things about you, expand
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upon what the resume and cover letter may not say, give you additional information about
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the job so you understand what they would expect, the skills and things that they're
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looking for and things like that. What they're trying to do is weed down to the core candidates who are definitely going
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to be interested in this type of position and again, meet the level of competency and
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potentially meet the level of fit that they're looking for in the organization
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So giving you this information, making you aware of how the process works and what to
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who expect and things like that can give you additional information to prepare yourself
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and again so it serves that dual function of waiting out for them and allowing you additional
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time and information to prepare yourself for the interview process. So again that's the screening process and then next is the on site interview
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Now sometimes they have a step in there where you have a displaced organization Some of they say let just do this via Skype or conference call or something like that
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Those are more difficult. A phone interview is far more difficult because all of your physical gestures and movements
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aren't read over the conference call and they don't even come through fully via Skype
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even though you can see an image of the person. So you're at a disadvantage then so you again have to make it more compelling and you have
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to work harder, practice harder to be efficient in a phone or teleconference style interview
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But if you get the on site interview in person, that's when you're trying to again, it generally
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starts out with an individual interview. You're trying to do the things that we previously discussed, establish commonalities, rapport
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shared experience, values, beliefs, etc. So anyway, this is starts off the process for what we talked about doing the types of
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interview that you have, the individual, group or serial interviews that can sometimes last
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multiple days
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