By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman in Big Game Hunter helps explain the format and reasoning behind group interviews, and how to ace it every time.
Answer behavioral interview questions the right way
Hello! I’m Jeff Altman, big game hunter. I’m known as the “Big Hunter” because I’ve been searching for leaders and employees for organizations for over 40 years. Today, I’m going to talk to you about group interviews, which have a different direction and feel than traditional interviews.
Why? Because three or four people sit across from you and put you through a great investigation to figure out if you’re a good fit. Now, how do you prepare for a group discussion? It’s really easy. Let’s first understand who you are dealing with, what is their specific background, what is their role in the organization, so you can figure out what their agenda is.
See, the panelists are not four people from the same group or department. Typically, they come from relevant groups and departments. They might do something similar.
They may communicate with each other, but ultimately they have different agendas in mind. Another thing to remember is that whatever you answer is likely to elicit responses from other group members. After all, you are probably talking to a team member from a department, let’s take the IT department as an example.
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You might be talking to a member of the programming team, but there are people there representing the user community who want to know how your answer relates to them. It’s not that they don’t understand, it’s that your answer may trigger something in their mind. Also remember that there are three or four people there, all competing for the question being asked.
They are all looking for an opportunity to meet you. They all want to be evaluated because ultimately, they have to give you a thumbs up or thumbs down at the end of the process. So when you answer questions, know who you are talking to and their role as well as who you are. . . This is the physical part of the process.
When you talk to the questioner (the person who asked you the original question), you start talking to them, and then you start talking to someone else, but always end your answer by talking to the original questioner. It’s a subtle thing, but it allows you to do what I think is really important in a room, which is try to build rapport with everyone in the room. I’m Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter.
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About Big Game Hunter Jeff Altman
Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter is a coach who has been a recruiter for a hundred years. His work spans career coaching, executive job coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the producer and former host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 job search podcast on iTunes with over 3,000 episodes.
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