Monday, March 11, 2019
The 5 Interview Questions You Should Be Prepared For In 2019
collegecandy.com: It’s that time of the year again. Whether you’re ready to graduate and start your career or are preparing for a new summer job, interviews are right around the corner. The interview process can be nerve-wracking, but the more prepared you are, the more confident you will be.
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I don’t disagree with any of the advice in this article, however none of it was new information to me. I was hoping to find some new insight into the standard batch of interview questions, and what would set one apart from others. Since the title referenced the year, I was anticipating something geared more towards our current era. Regardless, what I have found throughout the interview process is that honesty is essential. If I try to play up a strength I have, I leave the interview feeling like I was not myself. This might sound obvious, but if I do not show my interviewer my true self, how do I know they actually want me for the position, and not the person they think I am? The same goes for resumes—dishonesty could only backfire. I would only put down a skill if I was confident, I could utilize it the first day on the job.
This article came at a really interesting time in my life. Just days after I read this article I was going to interviews. While it wasn’t exactly for a job, they also were for a job. A weird place ot be when interviewing and some of these points did come up but not all of them. Having them prepared wasn’t crucial for me but were definitely helpful and something to consider when people are looking for jobs and going to interviews. The points and tips are helpful. What was interesting was what points kept coming up. What I need more experience in was the biggest and to my surprise it wasn’t so much for evaluation but for my sake. It seemed that they were asking because they want to teach me while I am there rather than have me come in completely ready to do everything. They want me to grow while I am there and not having the pressure of being on my own to figure things out. This also would aid in their advantage because then I wouldn’t come back with completed work that is wrong, maybe has some errors but isn’t straight put, wrong. The other that came up was if I had any questions. The interesting part about this point is that I actually asked questions throughout the process and in many different forms, ranging from straight questions to questions related in what we were talking about, and to questions phrased in statements. So, when we got close to the end, they would ask this question and at that point I might have one left. So, what might be good for this article to have is to save some questions for end that make sense to be there and maybe to summarize the questions you had but already got answered throughout the process. Otherwise I found this article to be quite helpful and a really good short read for those who aren’t interviewing right now.
This article was pretty stale but did hit upon some umbrella categories that are typical in interview processes. Personally, I know that I have hard times with gauging how an interview has gone and whether I did well or not. It is difficult because I don’t immediately feel super comfortable talking about myself and trying to brag about my accomplishments, so I’m always concerned about needing to state my case harder and give myself more credit. A good habit that this article discusses is an ability to spin things in a way that allows you to talk more about the positive aspects you’re able to bring to the table and your abilities. Also a big thing to realize that I think the article is missing is that each interview is going to be different and have a different feeling to it, that fact is something you need to be open to and adapt to the changes.
While everyone’s knowledge base has to start somewhere, I do not think this article offered any new information with regard to my interview skills and preparation. Additionally, it seems that the website is geared towards college students and I understand how they would be trying to reach the most general audience they can. Having gone through quite a number of interviews the past couple months for summer internships, it seems that practice makes perfect. As I reflect on my first interview compared to the last one, my biggest improvement is how comfortable I am when talking to strangers over the phone. I think my generation has somewhat lost the ability to talk cohesively over the phone so getting that practice has also helped tremendously. I agree with Sidney when she says that she doesn't like playing up a strength too much or else you leave the interview not feeling like you presented yourself in the most honest way.
The headline of this article makes it seem specific to 2019, when really, none of these interview questions are anything close to that. These are all very, very basic job interview questions in theory, that in an actual job interview, I have never experienced. However, even if you do not experience these questions, I think that it is good to have these answers in mind, as they can help you answer other questions that might be asked by the interviewer. All in all, I do not think that this article would be considered helpful by practically anyone who has ever discussed or even thought about interviewing for a job. Even if this was the first article that someone ever read about interviewing for a job, I think that it would not be very helpful, as many of these questions have become tropes in film, when a character goes in for a soul-crushing job interview that they don’t end up taking or end up regretting that they took.
I hate the questions asking you what your biggest weakness' are, they are annoying and hardly ever give the interviewer anymore than just a fake out answer. The other day I had an interview where the person asked me what my enemies would say about me, I jokingly said "don't give him this job", but then I went on to make up some weird answer about how I try too hard to please people or something like that. My point is, you never really get a genuine answer for that question in particular, and that goes against the entire concept of an interview in general. If i was being honest, I would say that my weakness' are that I am not a morning person and I don't like to get anything productive done until around 11am. Does that get in the way of me being able to do my work and still persevere? No. So why does it matter if we're all people with unique strengths and weakness', we shouldn't be ashamed of the parts of ourselves that only really effect us.
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