1.What is an Interview?
Ans.The Interview is an Interpersonal Communication between the prospective employer and a prospective candidate. An interview provides a platform where primarily the organization checks the suitability of the candidate vis-à-vis the job profile. The interviewee also has the opportunity to examine if his personal objectives will be met in the job and the company. It is to be noted that an interview can not be so simplified as to reduce to a formula.
Neither the interviewer nor the interviewee is predicable. At best, we can learn a variety of strategies and technique that can be used. It is up to an interviewee to analyze a situation and to decide what strategy and technique are most appropriate on the occasion. Thoughts, Emotions, Aim, Desires, Attitudes and Skills along with Recall, Communication Style, and Linguistic Proficiency are some of the factors that play an important role in interface both for the interviewer and the interviewee. In an interview the interviewer is trying to sell a company to a candidate and the interviewee is trying to sell him/her to a company. Thus, an interview is information getting for each of them. The interviewee attempts to ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of the company and the job while the interviewer assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate. Following are some of the commonly asked questions in the interviews. The sequence of questions may differ.