Interview Tips

Harvard Business School has a Management Tip of the Day blog and today's tips are related to interviewing.

Their three top tips are:

Research: There is no excuse not to spend time researching the organization online before your interview. This will help you both answer questions and come with questions of your own.  I have printed pages from websites to take with me to interviews so I can refer to what I saw on line.

Show interest: not just in the position and the organization but in the interviewer(s).  I almost always ask the interviewer what they like about working at the organization as well as what they find challenging.

Listen: in other words...don't talk the whole time. What the interviewer says can help you both answer questions and decide if you want to work there.

One more tip from me: come with questions( not about salary and benfits..leave those for after you have an offer) questions like: What is the most important thing this position needs to accomplish in the next year?  And the question I almost always end with is "Do you have any concerns about my ability to do this job?"