Surviving Interviews

I don't think there is anything worse than having to sit through an interview. It is tourture. I have been through a couple, and one was incrediblely stressful. I felt like every answer I gave was wrong, and I didn't have anything insightful to ask them at the end. The first article I read talked about different ways to relax during the interview. I think that visualizing yourself succeeding may be helpful, but my imagination doesn't always allow me to pick what it runs away with. The key of the article seemed to be just stay relaxed and show the interviewer that you feel comfortable. It gave some good tips on how to appear relaxed. The second article that I read talked about asking questions, and this is one area that I have a lot of trouble with. They broke it down by who is interviewing you because some questions are more appropriate for certain people. The key for me is to get a handful of questions ready before the interview that are not likely to be answered during it. The next interview I will probably go through will be to get into law school, so I will need to have questions about the process and school ready to go. This is just hard because I feel like the questions I ask show that I am not fully knowledgeable about the school. The sample questions given by the article asked were not really straight informational questions, but they didn't seem very real to me. I can't see myself asking "What type of employees tend to excel at this company?" I want to ask more personal questions about the school that will actually impact me, so I need to prepare those. I can incorporate the visualization with this in seeing myself asking the interviewer my questions.