IT Job Interview

The answer: Don’t ask questions until you are asked do you have any questions.

Some candidates spend a lot of time researching a company before interview and try to demonstrate this acquired knowledge during interview. Some of them are so eager to show how much they know about the company and they ask a lot of questions during the interview. That is not necessary and it doesn’t make a good impression.

Why interviewers don’t like questions during interview? — They have plans and schedules for the interview. They may have planed to take turns to ask you questions based on a question list. They want to be in control, and in fact they are. If you ask questions and try to open a discussion during interview, you may have interrupted their schedule and they feel you are taking control. Sure, companies want leaders, but not on the interview table.

Be careful about the image you present in the interview. If you are so aggressive, some interviewers may even feel they are threatened and they don’t want to work with you, the result, — you don’t get the job. Interviewer is more likely to accept candidates who are conventional, knowledgeable, and easy going. So you should act like this way. Don’t try to direct the interview so as to get across the points you want the interviewer to know.

The safest way to make good impressions in interview is to be a good listener and answer questions with enthusiasm. You should listen carefully for clues as to what interviewers want and try to be the person they want you to be. You goal for the interview is to sell yourself to the company, therefore when you answer interviewer’s questions, try to promote your experience and skills that you can use to help them and help the company’s business. During interview, you should try to assess the scope of interviews’ skills, desires and talents. Your answers to their questions should not go beyond this scope too much.

When finally you are asked do you have any questions, what should you ask? Your questions should be related the position and the responsibilities of the job. In response to their answers, you may cite examples of proven success to explain how you can do better job on this position.