It is best to know more about you than
the interviewer knows much about you.
Not exact matches
You want an
interviewer who is interested in the topic, but doesn't already
know too
much about it.
Interviewers should be professional, and they should
know that their job is just as
much about selling their company to you as it is
about assessing you for a role.
Preparing your answers for an interview is so
much simpler when you
know what the
interviewer really wants to
know about you.
As
much as
interviewers want to
know more
about you, what they're really after is how you can benefit the company.
With competency - based questions it is very easy to go off topic or meander around providing too
much detail
about the situation when the
interviewer really wants to
know how you acted.
In addition, it will be
much easier for you to come up with a few questions when the
interviewer asks if there is anything you'd like to
know about the job or the company.
Again, you can not
know or assume how your
interviewer voted or how they feel
about Brexit now, so base your answer around available data as
much as possible.
Every job seeker
knows that pretty
much any job interview is
about answering questions of a hiring manager or
interviewer.
Certainly the
interviewers want to
know more
about you and repeating yourself without alterations will not help
much.
While the clichéd question «tell us
about your strengths and weaknesses» does not apply to many jobs now, you may be asked this particular question as the
interviewer would want to
know how
much stress you can handle — or how well you perform on a high volume day.
In addition to getting some feedback on company culture and environment from your network (see # 8 below), you should
know as
much as you can find out
about the company and the
interviewer (s).
No matter how
much preparation you do for your job interview, there's
no guarantee you won't get an absolute shock in the form of an
interviewer with a totally uncomfortable style
about them.
Questions you are likely to be asked at a Business Administration school interview The
interviewer will try to ascertain how
much you already
know about business administration.