Interview tips for competition?

Asked by Blonderaven (387

) January 26th, 2011

I think of myself as fairly good at interviews in general, and input from people who have interviewed me agrees with this view. My style is pretty laid back,I do dress up, but I don’t really follow strict “interview rules” I tend to smile a lot, answer questions quickly (or if I don’t have a quick answer I say “that’s a tough one” to stall for time). The thing is, I’m entering an interview competition (it’s for academic decathlon), and I’m wondering, what should I change for competition. It really seems totally different to me, when I’m interviewing for real I’m trying to tell the interviewers, “I’m someone you want to work with” and I don’t really want them to think I’m particularly “good” at interview, after all why would you hire someone just because you thought they were good at interviews?

It just seems really weird to me going into an interview trying to convince someone I’m good at interviews, any tips?

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In the interview competition, what kind of interviews are you being judged on? Job interviews? Radio interviews?

I don’t understand why you’d want to change anything. If you’re good at interviews, why would you try to change it? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

I think you’re exactly right when you say you want to tell people they would want to work with you. They already have a good idea you could do the job from your resume. What they really want is to see if you will fit in with their team.

I also don’t understand your concern about being too good at interviewing. People want to know who you are. If you are good at expressing that, then you are doing a good job at interviewing. Why do you want to act as if you are just lucky or something? Interview skills are important, and part of that includes being real, not faking you are someone who you are not.

No. I say you don’t change what got you here. It’s worked up until now. It should continue to work. This sounds like nerves to me. You can’t worry about what you’re doing. At this point, you just have to do it. Either it’s good enough or it isn’t. Your world isn’t going to end if you don’t win the competition.

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