Okay so in this video I want to talk to
you about what are the various
types of interviews okay. To start with
let's address some of the
characteristics you'll see
a formal versus an informal interview. A
formal interview
is scheduled uh very
you meet with people at a given time it
based upon their position that type
thing
is part of a structured interview
process
it's what everybody considers generally
an interview an informal interview is
simply when you
meet someone just to ask questions uh
about the you know they get to know the
company that type of thing
and you oftentimes don't even realize
that what they're doing is evaluating
you for a position okay
so formal versus import formal.
Traditional versus unstructured a
traditional
interview ask you questions you know
different types of questions that we'll
talk about in a minute
but follows down your resume that type
of thing you know can be individual or
group in nature
but um you know it's very planned and
formalized oftentimes
questions written out ahead of time
sometimes they'll score you on things
that type of thing.
An unstructured interview is when
someone brings you in and there's no
structure to it they simply want to have
a conversation they want to see what
you're about they'll ask you some
questions maybe things about your resume
your past your history your expectations
things like that but it turns into more
of a conversation.
I can tell you that the objective you
should be looking for during the
interview process is to
transition from a traditional interview
to an unstruct-
unstructured one where it becomes more
conversational that means they've gotten
comfortable with you and they believe
that there's a level of
fit there. So as long as you meet the
minimum level of competence for the
position
right competence and qualifications then
you are going to be a prime candidate
for the position because once again
you've achieved the most difficult
aspect
which is personal fit all right. Now
interviews oftentimes be with an
individual it would be
in a group right a committee of
interviewee
interviewers uh right that type of thing
right the
committee type is more difficult you
need to plan on that more because it's
very difficult to
relate to a group of people right the
way you can with one person
you have to keep changing looking each
person in the eye that type of thing
you're answering a question but you're
still not ignoring the other individuals
so
you're splitting your time and direction
and how you're focusing yourself doing
doing the answering of questions so that
can be very difficult
okay it requires a lot of practice.
Serial interviews in nature
means you're interviewing with one group
then another group or individual and
then another group of individuals
like oftentimes for fortune 500
companies or
consulting firms you'll interview with
perhaps a group of individuals first you
know three depend on three or four
people
uh they'll give their opinion then
you'll meet with a manager level and
then after that if you're approved like
maybe the next day you come back
and you meet with uh the senior person
vice president
you know that type level the person who
can at that point in time they're just
seeing if they want to
right um if you've gotten that far
normally uh they've you've been endorsed
uh to that point so it's a series of
interviews in a row.
And then more common now than ever uh
virtual versus
on-site interviews the idea of you know
you telecommuting in or interviewing
over to telephone
interviewing over the telephone is
extremely difficult slightly less
difficult is interviewing
uh virtually you know via webcam
and uh the preferred method or should be
for most people at least
for people who have any level of
personal uh inner communication skills
uh is an in-person on-site interview
right where you can relate to people you
can communicate with your
hand gestures your facial gestures that
type of thing your expressions that type
of thing right to aid
uh your the actual words you're using
and things like that right
it means it's easier for others to
understand you and it's easier
to transmit whatever information to make
yourself understood
okay . Now those are just characteristics
of of
interviews now types of interviews
really focuses on like the nature of
questions that they're asking
right but there are you know categories
of types of interview such as
informational interview that's kind of a
pre-interview right where you're where
you're
basically just trying to get information
about the company and the company is
there to provide
information to you sometimes it's
person-to-person you just simply ask
somebody out to coffee and you get
information
like that but it's understood that
that's the purpose behind
it but oftentimes particularly business
schools informational interviews
are very planned there will be a number
of employers that show up and their
entire purpose
is to ask questions provide information
to students uh you know
to create a level of awareness for um
for
application purposes that type of thing.
All right so
uh next would be the screening or
telephone interview and this normally
happens either with
inside the company's hr department or
through a recruiter who's recruiting on
behalf of the company
for candidates and basically all it is
is to provide you information about the
position
and to get information free from you to
make sure you're a good fit for the
position
as the name implies it is more to screen
you out
than anything else right they're trying
to whittle down the candidates and
they're trying to make certain
that only the people that fit the best
and meet the qualifications right so
they're
actually trying to identify hiccups that
could come in the process so they're
screening out
people that just wouldn't work for the
position for whatever reason right.
Now once you actually get into the
interview you're going to get all types
of questions
lots of uh interviews are focused around
a specific objective right
like you'll get questions about behavior
based stuff like how would you react
in this type of situation right um
now that's a behavioral thing sometimes
it's about past experience
tell me about a time that you did that
but sometimes it's also hypothetical
right to say
if this came about how would you deal
with it right. This
is very common in in sales and
public relations type roles or functions.
Another one would be task oriented
oriented
questions or interviews or testing
interviews and these are skill based
you'll see these oftentimes
in consulting or technical fields
or finance fields that type of thing
where you have to have some
level of technical ability to undertake
the position particularly in technology
right
coding challenges that type of thing to
see your level of skill
or proficiency for the position so those
are task oriented. And then there's
stress based interviews just to see how
you react
under given circumstances that cause
stress right
uh high pressure short timeline very
difficult task
difficult people to deal with that type
of thing. So
taken together these are the type of
questions that you see
that will characterize the nature of the
interview. So
once again any of these types of
interviews can carry any of these
formal characteristics that you'll see
so as long as you're
familiar with them what they are the
different characteristics and different
types
you can do the research yourself for the
position you're applying for to
determine
what is this going to be like is it
going to be a single interview a
serial interview on on site or virtual
you know your objective being to make it
uh traditional and
you know less traditional more
unstructured that type of thing so
it will create comfort and confidence in
the process so ultimately
you should perform better knowing what
to expect and being able to
prepare for it.