Effective and Ineffective Interviews

Effective and Ineffective Interviews

Every time you have an interview, it’s always going to be different. Different factors play a part in the interview, such as the company or job it’s for, the person conducting the interview, questions being ask, and basically everything that happens during it. No interview is going to be the same, and many factors will either make it a super effective interview, or pretty ineffective.

I have had many interviews throughout my work history, mostly all for internships that are with pretty professional companies. Most of my most effective interviews usually shared one thing in common and it was usually the recruiter building rapport with me before the interview actually happened. In these effective interviews, the recruiter would often follow up every few days to check up on the interview, sending reminders, and asking further questions or to gather more information. This allowed the recruiter to have the most information available for the interview and allowed them to have great questions ready to ask me, rather than a ton of questions that didn’t really matter that much.

In one of my more ineffective interviews, it was one where as soon as I hopped off the call, I knew instantly I probably wasn’t going to hear back. Before the interview took place, the recruiter did do a great job, however, during the actual interview, I wasn’t really given an opportunity to speak or ask any questions. The interviewer sort of explained the job and the company, asked me probably 2 or 3 questions, and said it was great speaking to you. I thought it was an ineffective method as you usually come into an interview with questions ready to ask them, but I didn’t have a chance.