The dinner interview can be so unnerving, especially now. Can you say no if you’re not comfortable being in person yet? How should you behave if it’s a fancy restaurant? What should you order? The process is intimidating at the best of times, and given our current situation, it becomes even more fraught. …
Keep track of the info interviews you do. At first, you’ll feel like you can keep it all in your head, but especially if you’re looking for a bigger change to your career path, the information you take in is going to get very muddy very quickly. I use a simple tracker in Excel, but…
The etiquette of the informational interview can be a little confusing. They’re not just coffee with a friend, and they’re not an actual interview, so what to do? The informational interview is definitely its own unique thing, but the good news is that it’s informal enough that the rules are pretty simple: 1. Be…
What questions should you ask in an informational interview? I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten stuck at this point many a time. I have found a fabulous person to talk to, and even scheduled a time, and suddenly I’m panic-stricken because I don’t know what to ask. First of all, don’t…
Finding people to have informational interviews with can feel overwhelming and intimidating but it doesn’t have to be. As with most things, I encourage people to start with what’s easy. Who do you know already, and who do they know? Most of us have vague ideas of what our loved ones do, but we…
I’ve talked a lot about how important networking is when you’re looking for a job or growing in your career, so this I want to talk about my favorite kind of networking, the informational interview. You may or may not be familiar with the term, so today I’ll talk you through what it means and…
Remember that an interview goes both ways. You’re interviewing them as much as they’re interviewing you. It can be hard to keep that in mind when you feel desperate for a job, but it’ still true, even then. One of the worst possible outcomes of an interview can be a bad-fit job. Most of…
Behavioral interview questions like this are popular because your answers can illustrate what kind of colleague you’ll be and what your approach to the situations really is. Your temptation might be to give a generic answer, like, “Well, on our last big challenge, we really pulled together as a team and got a difficult…
Questions like this are terrifying at first, but there really is a reason for them. Your best plan to approach a surprising question like this is to take a few moments to try to figure out why they’re asking it. The question above (and its siblings, like what kind of animal you would be,…
One of the best things you can do for yourself is familiarize yourself with the most common questions and have a general idea of how to approach them. If any of the questions seem hard or you’re not sure how to approach them, let me know! Here are the 50 that Glassdoor ranks most common:…