I have luckily only had good experiences with interviews, in regards to being the one interviewed. One thing that made all those interviews effective is I went into them with the same professionalism and always made sure to have copy of me resume. I have been grateful enough to have walked away from every interview I have been in with a job offer. But now my current job, I am the HR individual who is hiring and scheduling interviews and it’s much different than I thought. Many individuals I have come across are not very professional, whether this be because their resume is five pages long and formatted poorly or because they came in for an interview and were dressed in everyday clothes with nonprofessional attitudes. If I had to give advice to most of them, it would be to go into every interview like it’s your dream job you’re being interviewed for or applying for. For the interviewers, I would suggest to “…also require the interviewer to score each answer immediately after it is provided. This neutralizes a variety of biases: We are more likely to remember answers with vivid examples, for example, and answers that are most recent.” (Harvard Business Review) One thing I have learned is to always right down your thoughts about the individual after each answer they give. Interviews can be scary on both sides but remember to go into it like it’s your dream job has always helped me on both sides.
How to take the bias out of interviews. Harvard Business Review. (2016, July 18). Retrieved October 30, 2022, from https://hbr.org/2016/04/how-to-take-the-bias-out-of-interviews
