I have had a lot of interviews over the years and a few stand out as good and bad measures of whether or not I was a good fit for the job. Starting with the bad experience, I once had a job interview where, after reviewing my resume and basic qualifications I was sat down for an unstructured interview. I got the sense very quickly that the interviewer liked me and at the time, wanting the position, I made a point to make personal connections with the interviewer rather than focusing on job questions, as they were very open-ended. I ended up getting the position, and as it was a lower level position, it’s not that I wasn’t a great fit or couldn’t perform the job duties, but I quickly realized how important job growth within the position was to me and did not feel this was something that would be available to me. I left that job in less than 6 months for another position which promised me more growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had a much different experience at my most recent position. I actually felt really great about the interview experience, as the owner of the practice sat me down and discussed ideal principles and values, and then gave me a math test followed by a short job shadowing experience. At the time, I had never had this done a test at an interview and was surprised. However, it actually made me feel confident that I could prove my intelligence and linear reasoning which was necessary for the position. This test showed strong reliability and utility for the position, although I am not sure how valid it was, and ultimately I stayed at that position for over a year, only leaving due to understaffing and job rotation, which became overwhelming at a small practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I could go back to both of these interviews, I would say that the first interviewer should have been a lot more focused, using structured interviews that focused more on the specifics of the position. To the second interviewer, I would say that this interview was actually a great way to test if I would be a good fit for the position. It was one of the most beneficial and structured interviews I have experienced and ultimately I might have stayed at this position for a long time, had it not been for understaffing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have had a lot of interviews over the years and a few stand out as good and bad measures of whether or not I was a good fit for the job. Starting with the bad experience, I once had a job interview where, after reviewing my resume and basic qualifications I was sat down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/humanresourcesmanagementblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}