Interview Tips

Different kinds of interviewers and tips to tackle them

March 11, 2010 HR

Every interviewer has their own style of evaluating a candidate. Some interviewers make the hiring decision within ten minutes, while some of them do an extended and an in-depth interview. There is every possibility that a candidate hired by one kind of interviewer may not be selected by another kind of interview. Interview is a [...]

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Dress to Impress

February 15, 2010 Interview Tips

Do you care less about what you wear in a job interview? Well in that case, I strongly recommend that you care about your dressing from now on. Ask why? Your dress and grooming speak a lot on your behalf. They demonstrate to the employer that you are interested in the job being offered. Being [...]

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Dos and donts in a job interview for marketing position

January 12, 2010 Interview Stories

Watch below an interesting video recording of an interview for a marketing position. Here are few important dos and donts that can be drawn from this video.  Make a mental note of these points before appearing for a job interview. Dos Convert negative to positive

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Would you hire samuel, a frank guy who speaks his mind at interviews

December 1, 2009 Interview Questions

This interview is my imaginary work, a sample response for 50 commonly asked interview questions, attempting to answer few of the most tricky HR questions ever asked. A fictitious software professional, Samuel Johnson attends an interview with an IT company, Amdocs. Samuel Johnson is confident and is a natural leader. He is too frank at [...]

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Donts while negotiating salary in a job interview

November 2, 2009 HR

You first apply for a post in a company, take the job interview and clear all the interview rounds. Then this HR manager contacts you either on phone or in person to talk about your salary requirements. This is when you negotiate with the HR about your salary. The first and the only question that [...]

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Interview with The Working Geek

October 25, 2009 Career Issues

This is an interview of Andy Lester with Interview Mantra, on tips for job hunters and on his book “Land the Tech Job you Love“, which is about new guidelines for tech job hunting. [Sridhar Jammalamadaka]: Welcome to Interview Mantra! Can you tell our readers about yourself and your journey in Tech industry [Andy Lester]: [...]

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Bugs can get you a software job

October 18, 2009 Interview Tips

You are a software developer/tester sitting in an interview, trying to get this great job. Dozens of applicants are waiting in the hall for their turn. Your chances don’t look high. How can you stand out from the crowd? “So, what web framework does your company use to develop your sites?”, you ask in the [...]

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Want to learn more about your future employer?

October 17, 2009 Career Issues

Are you planning to change your job? How would you know whether you are landing up in a better/worse place? Salary hike / fancier job title, I reckon, should have motivated you to quit your current employer and join a new company. I’m pretty sure you would have asked the opinion of your friends working [...]

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“Do you have any questions” – at the end of an interview

September 18, 2009 Interview Stories

If the title of this post implied to you that this post is going to tell you the questions that should be asked by a candidate at the end of an interview, I apologize; this post is not going tell you that. Instead, it’s about a gaffe that I made in an interview. This incident [...]

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Effective Job Interviewing From Both Sides of the Desk

September 16, 2009 Interview Questions

Effective Job Interviewing From Both Sides of the Desk View more documents from Andy Lester. This is an excellent presentation by Andy Lester who writes The Working Geek- A blog for Job hunting and working life for programmers, sysadmins and all other techies. Andy is also author of a book on interviewing, Land the Tech [...]

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