Blog Post: Gaining Interviewing Savvy: Questions & Answers

1. Interview Chatter ran a couple of thought-provoking posts about handling inappropriate interview questions this month. A post from this week lists the traditional “no-no” questions for interviewers, but a slightly older post discusses borderline inappropriate queries that might just be attempts at small talk.  There’s also a good (and somewhat funny, or poignant, depending on your point of view) discussion of statements that job-seekers don’t want to hear from employers during a job interview.

2.  If you’re going to be going into a job interview where you expect a barrage of “behavioral” interview questions (“How did you handle a situation where….,” “Give us an example of a time when you had to…”), check out Tell Me About Yourself, a blog-within-a-blog that serializes the book “Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers” by Katherine Hansen, Ph.D. Hansen also blogs at A Storied Career, which is the parent blog for this one.

Recent posts cover remembering compelling self-stories by giving them a title, answering future-oriented interview questions and  answering a question about priorities and scheduling.

Obviously, you shouldn’t cut and paste and repeat the examples in the blog verbatim, but the blog offers great examples of how to organize your experiences and present them in the most helpful and persuasive way possible.