Interviewing Tips

Read through this PDF slideshow to learn how to do well in your interviews. We’ll also cover this in greater detail in class as a group.

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Anecdotes

The best interview answers are anecdotes. Anecdotes are real stories that relate your skills and experiences to an interviewer. Memorize 5 to start… they will take you far!

Think of a time you stood in the rain for five hours to get the perfect sunset photo for a website background. That’s an anecdote.

Or, how about the time you searched and searched YouTube for a video tutorial that taught you how to apply a certain photoshop effect? That’s an anecdote.

Most anecdotes should be about your skills and experiences and the job you are applying for.

Helpful advice on Zoom interviewing

I wanted to give you some sound advice regarding Zoom interviewing (remote interviewing) so I found this helpful video from indeed.com. They offer really helpful tips in the video, and info that you can read on the web page too. They are promoting a touring job fair in the first seven minutes, so if you want to start at 7:00 that’s fine.

Many of you are comfortable with Zoom meetings already, but I thought this extra interviewing advice was worth sharing with you. 

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/zoom-interview

Thanks,
Craig

Remember…

  1. Always answer honestly.
  2. Always relate your answers to your ability to do the job they are hiring for.
  3. Always answer with conviction and enthusiasm.
  4. Always end each answer, and the interview, on a positive. If you are ending on a negative, turn it around or change the discussion to end on a positive.
  5. Always believe that you can do the job you are applying for.
  6. Always remember that you can only control your part of the interview:
  • Yourself, (answers, comments, dress, attitude, honesty, professionalism, sense of humor
  • Your portfolio presentation, (this proves you have the skills to do the job)
  • Let the rest be the responsibility of the interviewer, not you. Do not try to take control, you have enough to think about