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Interviewing Tips

Come Prepared For The Interview!  You Are Representing Yourself and ProDX !

• Gather as much information as possible about the company and the group before the meeting. Your Recruiter or Account Manager will give you as much info as they can about the interviewer, the job and the company but you’ll be ahead of your competition if you also do some research. Review the company’s website. The more research you've done on your own, the more in depth your conversation can be during the interview.
• Bring a copy of the job description to the meeting. The hiring manager may have made modifications since originally opening the position.
• Dress one level above your audience which is typically business casual for our clients. Always ask your recruiter or account manager for advice regarding each person you interview with.
• Ask for the job at the end of the interview!

Develop a list of questions to ask during the meeting – sample questions:

• Tell me where your team is in the (development, writing, selling, testing, etc.) process.
• What is the culture of the team I’ll be working with?
• What challenges have you faced so far? What aspects of the project are going well?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of your current team? How have the strengths/weaknesses affected your progress towards your goals?
• What kinds of skills and experience do you expect a successful candidate to have coming into this job, and why?
• Where will this department/technology/team be next year?
• Who are your team's customers? What are their expectations? What percentage of the time does your team meet customer expectations? If it is not 100%, what would it take to get there?
• What will this group do when you finish your current project? When will you begin planning the next project? What role do the team members have in that planning?
• How would you describe your management style?
• What are your biggest challenges in your role? Your greatest successes?

Do’s

• Honesty is always the best policy. Be honest on your resume and in the interview. Don't claim to have skills or experience that you don't really have. Be candid. If you don't know the answer to a question, say so! Oftentimes interviewers are more than happy to help you work through a problem if you ask for assistance.
• Be yourself!
• So, Why Do You Want This Job? You should be prepared to explain why you are looking for a new job and why you have chosen THIS job in particular.
• Be aware of the importance of eye contact and body language in an interview setting.
• Call your recruiter right after the interview and let him or her know how it went.
• Send a thank you note for your recruiter to forward on to the interviewer.  Not many candidates follow this seemingly simple practice, but it could very well be the deciding factor.
• Ask for the job at the end of the interview!

Don’ts

• Ever bad-mouth an employer, co-worker or manager
• Be arrogant or overconfident
• Be late
• Be dishonest about your skills
• Come to the interview unprepared
• Silence is sometimes imposed by the interviewer to see how you will react to stress. Don’t retract, mutter, or fidget in the face of silence.
• Forget that you are being evaluated both technically and by how the interviewer feels you will fit in with the team.
• Ever forget to ask for the job at the end of the interview!