Group job

interview
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 01 DEFINITION

02 CONDUCTING A
GROUP INTERVIEW

Content 03 PURPOSES OF
GROUPE INTERVIEW

04 QUESTIONS

05 ADVANTAGE/
DISADVANTAGE
 06 TIPS TO PREPARE BEFORE
PERFORMING

07 TIPS TO PREPARE WHILE

PREFORMING

08 MANAGE STRESS
Content
09 SIGNS OF SUCCESSFUL
INTERVIEW

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10 WHAT TO DO AFTER AN
INTERVIEW
What is a Group job
interview ?
 Conducting a group
interview

When Preparing

-hiring a large number of people -Date

-lot of similar applicant -Interviewers team
-hiring a whole team -Planning the questions
1 Inform the candidates

Conducting
2 The interviewers should meet each other
before meeting the candidates the
interview
3 The interviewers should introduce themselves

4 Ask questions in turns

5 Debrief with the other interviewers .

 the purpose of groupe
interview
Evaluating multiple candidates

Finding a large number of employees quickly

Saving time and money

Testing candidats' soft skills

Questions in a
group
interview
01 How Would You Describe Yourself ?

02 What Interests You in Our Company ? Group

Interview
Questions
03 How Do You Work in a Team ?

04 What Do You Have to Offer the Company ?

01 What Made This Team Work Successfully?

Questions
02 What Was Your Personal Contribution to
the Team’s Performance? Asked After
Work-
03 Why Did This Team Struggle to Accomplish
the Objective?
Simulation
Exercises
04 How Did You Deal With the Stress Created
by Meeting the Challenges?
 Best Questions to Ask the
Interviewer

How would you What are you What are the Do you have a policy
describe the looking for in a biggest challenges for helping new
responsibilities of candidate? of this job? members of the
the position? team get on board?
Group interview's advantages
1 Reduce both time and cost
on hiring

Better look on candidate's

2 personality

3 Reduce the pressure on the

condidate
4 Possibility of comparing
candidates side by side

No further review needed

5
Group interview's
disadvantages
 Creation a difficult
1 competition

Control of the discussion

2

Overpowering candidates
3
 A limited set of questions
4

Conflict between
5 candidates
TIPS TO PREPARE FOR A GROUP INTERVIEW BEFORE PERFORMING

Plan an Research the Prepare

introduction company questions
 Group interview tips to help
you stand out
"before performing"
01
Try to greet interviewrs
02 03
Make yourself known Listen more than you talk
and candidates individually
It's likely the group interview will In group interview you've got to wait
It breaks the ice and its a good way to start off with introducing yourselves, for your turn, it's not the place to
get everyone's name to address them having a response prepared can help, aggressively interject when others
during the interview, it shows to the aim to be confident and highlight are speaking, develop your listening
interviewer that you got good people your skills and experience but keep it skills by focusing on what people are
skills short and concise saying
Tips to do during interview
01 Come as early as you can

02 Choose friendly answers

Tips to do
03 Avoid being empty-handed during
interview
04 Make sure that your cell phone is silent
01 Active listening

Tips to do
02 Watch your Grammar during
interview
03 Close on a positive, enthusiastic note.
 Managing
Stress During
the Interview
 Managing Stress During the
Interview
01 02
Prepare Avoid negative thinking

Be sure to research the company Instead, visualize having a successful

in advance and practice answering interview (for example, envision
common interview questions. The having positive interactions with the
more you practice, the more interviewer). Do this visualization in
comfortable you’ll feel in the the hours right before the interview.
interview.
 Managing Stress During the
Interview
03 04
Use these relaxation techniques
Watch your body language

Try to avoid fidgeting too much.

Try taking a deep breath or two to relax. Stand up straight and look the
interviewer in the eye (todon’t stare).
feel free to take a breath or a sip of water .
Signs to help you
know your
interview was
successful
 1 2 3
You were in this You are told what you
interview for longer The interview felt would be doing in this
than expected conversational role
did you find it relatively easy to the by this I mean that the
your recruiter may have interviewer? interviewer says things like
specified how long the If so then you more than likely “in this role you would be
successfully built up a good rapport expected to“following this
interview will last for a
with the interviewer and demonstrated the interview went into
hiring manager’s time is
some strong skilles.more so by gelling great detail about the ins
preciouse specially during and outs of the role.this is
well with the interviewer you have
a recruiting period. one of the signs that they
made it easier for them to imagine you
getting on well with the rest of the are already imagining you in
team. this position.
 4 5
The interviewer seemed You feel sold on the
engaged company and the role

as you answered their questions and Did you walk out of this interview feeling
spoke about your self: did you feel like convinced and excited about the opportunity
the interviewer was interested? ?and is this because the interviewer talked
consider their body language and their animatedly about all of the best aspects role
responses.if they leant in nodded and organization from what you could gain
from it career progression wise to the re
smiled and agreed with what you had
wards and benefits on offers.
to say.
 6 7 8
Your questions are You were introduced
answered in full You were introduced to senior decision
to your potential makers
colleagues
Like I said, the hiring
On a similar note, because
If the hiring manager manager isn’t going to
the interviewer wanted
introduced you to other take the time to
you to be sold on the
employees towards the end introduce you to other
opportunity, the
of the interview, then, people in the business
interviewer would have
again, this is an unless they already have
been eager to provide full
encouraging sign. a good feeling about you.
answers to all of your
This is especially true if
questions.
these people are senior
stakeholders.
What to do after an
interview ?
 Why is the
period of
time after an
interwiew
important ?
 Common things to do after an
interview

01 02 03
Ask for next steps and Write down the key Manage your social
contact information points from the media accounts
interview
 Common things to do after an
interview

04 05 06
Connect on social
Send a thank you Be patient
media business
note
networking sites
thank you !