IT Employment

Ask something
Question Locked

2nd Interview Help

0 helpful
3 replies

by mjromano

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

Hi everyone,

I recently went on an interview for a help desk position with a medium sized company and it went very well. I received the following email inviting me to a second interview:

"Good Morning,

We enjoyed meeting with you to discuss our current job openings and are looking forward to continuing our discussion during your second interview. The final interview will take place on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 8:00a.m. There will be a brief meeting, following the meeting, the final interviews will be conducted. The interviews will last approximately one to two hours. Please plan to be here two to four hours. Be sure to bring a copy of your resume. If you have any questions about the interview please feel free to contact me.

Reminder: Be sure to bring a copy of your resume.

Happy New Year"

Now mind you we already went over my resume extensively in my first interview and I spent an hour being interviewed. That's why I'm curious as to why it would take 2-4 hours. Could it be that they plan on offering me the job and this time will be for paperwork, etc?

I appreciate the input

3 replies

by older mycroft

The very first line of the email states [i]"We enjoyed meeting with you to discuss our current job openings .."[/i] with the operative word being [i][b]"opening[u]s[/u]"[/i][/b].

This Company clearly has more than one vacant job-role to offer, and as such have pared the interview list down to the final list of candidates. Whatever you went through before, you can expect to go through again and then some. There may even be a practical test - you will be given a dummy situation and they will evaluate your methodology for solving the problem.

As for the reminder to bring a copy of your resum? with you, that is an example of the classic technique to place you in a position of pressure (confusion and pressure) BEFORE you even arrive at the interview - although it is a genuine reminder, so DON'T forget to take another copy of your resum? with you!

Best of luck! ;)

by dr dij

I agree with Mycroft, here's some more

also there are endless books on interviewing. Also being employment-challenged currently, I stopped at local libraries (and try several if you can). We actually have one a mile away that is geared to helping people decide on jobs, do resumes and beef up computer skills. Read various books on interviewing, ...) Skim them for useful parts.

I have been in interviews where there was a test - pgmr, had to write a pgm. (I actually turned down this job)

Also, be informed but don't over-analyze and stress out. Don't talk too much, don't interrupt them (don't want to seem 'aggressive' and hence hard to manage). Show you know how to communicate if that becomes a part of it. related to this, don't sound like a "know-it-all". Sound knowledgeable but easy to get along with and with common sense. Rather than a loose cannon who might do something wrong without asking for help.

I hate to say it but I probably answered some questions like this wrong or not to the interviewers liking.

one was "you have to leave at 4:30 and at 4:20 a request comes in for a urgent project. what do you do?"

(this was for a reporting position)
I started off saying that I would take a quick look at it and see if I could do it in 10 minutes. I DO have alot of requests like this, even a fairly complicated sounding GL extract addition is just a copy of a column, change of the GL formula to new# and presto!

Interviewer interrupted me and told me communications was the key, ask them if they really need it today, or if tomorrow would be fine.

Really, that was what I was going to suggest next I would do if I saw it could NOT be done in 10 minutes, or if it COULD be done in 10 minutes but not verified. I like to carefully cross check results against data dumps, and ERP screens.

This discussion is closed to new replies.