October 28, 2022
I have had many great and terrible interviews in my experience so far. I believe that the interviews I had more success in were the interviews for the jobs I was more passionate about. Also, I believe the interviews I thought were more intense and difficult were the interviews with the critical thinking questions rather than the questions that focuses more on the job description. When I was interviewed for my current project coordinator job, it was at Starbucks, very ease, and went straight to the point. Meanwhile, a job I tried to get a position to handle equipment a while back for Dixon and I thought I was getting interviewed for SpaceX.
I believe the job I have now hired me because I was able to have a complete understanding of the job, a great first impression, and I had great pre-interview impressions. I believe there was some ineffectiveness in the job interviewing from biasness because I was filling in for one of my friends who also is a CEM major and goes to Oregon State. I wouldn’t say it was great amounts of biasness though due to my friend putting in a good word for me and knew of my abilities before hand. Another thing was the preparation or the location of the interview wasn’t the best but it didn’t make that much of a decrease in effectiveness. If I could go back and advise the employers at Dixon, I would tell them to focus more on the snap judgements and personal characteristics of the candidates rather than the critical questions especially for a position like that.