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Talent Trade Tidbit - Suggestions for Panel Interviews · The Talent Trade

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  Hi, this is Stephanie Maas.
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  Today I wanna give you a couple recommendations if you are preparing for an all day interview or a half day interview, where you are gonna be either in front of a panel.
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  Or if you're gonna have a series of several back to back to back to back to back interviews.
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  Now if you're working with a good recruiter through this, they will and should coach you through each of the different personalities, their agendas, hot buttons, so forth and so on, which obviously I can't do in a general forum like this.
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  But I wanna give you some other general tips to help make that time go by well.
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  First and foremost, I do think either, again, if you're going back to back to back interviews or if you'll be in a panel interview meeting with several times at once, you need to come into those interviews extremely well prepared, very well organized.
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  You need to know each of the different folks that you'll be talking with.
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  Their background, their hot buttons.
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  Their agenda and where they fall in the decision making of this particular hire.
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  The other thing I would highly recommend is go back through your own background.
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  Come up with one or two stories that exhibit either a skillset or a trait that you wanna make sure speaks to each one of those interviewers.
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  As well as a list of five to six specific questions that you can ask each one of those interviewers, and it needs to be, again, extremely well organized.
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  Second thing is you need to be a extremely.
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  Patient.
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  Usually when you are, especially when you're in a panel interview, there could be some flow of them kind of fighting to talk or ask you questions or, Hey, you're gonna get three questions here.
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  You're gonna get three questions here.
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  Then someone might pin in, well, what about this over here?
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  This is an excellent time for you to be an extremely patient and disciplined listener.
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  You wanna make sure, again, especially if it's multiple interviewers.
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  Or multiple interviews throughout the same day that you are very thoughtful that you are answering the questions that are asked.
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  Absolutely.
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  Don't be afraid to repeat the question.
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  Hey, for, you know, for example, Hey John, lemme make sure I understand what you're asking me.
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  If I heard you correctly.
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  Here's what you're trying to find out.
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  When they say Yes, that's what I want.
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  Huh?
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  Interesting question.
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  Let me, yeah, I've got a couple of thoughts I'd love to share.
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  Or they may say, well, no, actually this is what I meant.
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  So you have to be very patient and disciplined, especially on the listening side.
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  The third thing is you've really got to have some stamina so that you maintain a high energy level throughout the entire interview or interview day.
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  This means basic things like absolutely try and do your best to get a good night's sleep the night before if they offer you something to drink.
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  You take it, you're gonna need it.
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  So again, unless you're used to drinking six cups of coffee a day, I don't recommend going that direction.
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  For sure.
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  I would love some water.
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  Or if you know you need the caffeine to keep it going and you're again, you're used to it, go ahead, get that cup of coffee again.
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  That also means you've gotta factor in bathroom breaks.
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  If you are in a back to back to back to back to back interviews.
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  And you finish up the second or third one and they say, Hey, is there anything that you need before you get to the next one?
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  It is a fantastic time to say, actually, if you don't mind, um, you know, if I could use the ladies room or the men's room real quick.
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  Two things that does.
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  Obviously there's a bodily function there involved, but also it gives you a time to collect yourself, review your notes, kind of get it together before the next interview.