Week 11 - Mock Interviews & Mid Term Review

"The only way to get better at anything is to practice"

Peter

Being able to see the interview from the point of view of the interviewer is a good way of improving your performance at interviews.

From my experience, performing actual interviews will have you cringing at some of the things people will say, and just praying for them to mention some of the key points to score higher.

When the roles are then flipped and I am being interviewed, I can then answer questions while keeping in mind the kinds of things I would need to hear if I was the one interviewing. 

For our mock interviews, we split the group into 3 interview panels, one representing Marks & Spencers, one representing JD Sports and one representing Asda.

The panels took turns interviewing someone from another team before we would announce "SWITCH", and they would shift around to interview somebody new.

At the end, each team picked the person they would hire using the tried and tested X Factor method of moving photos of each candidate around and criticising each one whilst still providing reasons why they are a strong candidate.

The participants anxiously await their panel interviews

At the end a clear winner was announced from Marks and Spencers and Asda, both hiring Bobby, with the JD Sports panel hiring Shahina. Bobby later accepted positions at both companies to help support her starving family.

The exercise gave everyone a chance to see what it's like from the side of the interviewer. We'll be testing how this has changed their interview performance in our 1-1 interviews in week 14.

Fokrul keeps his cool under the pressure of being interviewed

*Video coming soon