Finding a Job Series – Group Interviews

Group interviews can be particularly nerve wracking. Not only are you trying to make yourself look good to a potential future employer, you also have to make yourself look comparatively better than all of the competition in the room. This can be quite hard to pull off. Here are three ways of making sure you do well on your group interview: engage with the interviewers, research the company and be gracious.

Engage with the interviewers. A good way of engaging your interviewers is by actively engaging them. This means responding directly to them when they ask questions. For instance, make sure you make eye contact with the interviewer who has asked the question. As well, make sure to use their name when replying to the question. Another good way of engaging your interviewers is by learning a little bit about them. Find out what their job title is and what some of their duties involve. You can even ask them how their job is connected with your potential one. Thirdly, if you are given the opportunity to ask questions at the end, ask questions that are directly related to your interviewers positions so that they feel more involved in the interview process. Finally, pay attention to group dynamics. Maybe this isn’t the team you want to be working with. It is important to remember that you are, in a way, interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you.