Gathering information about companies through interviews:

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

I’ve been getting some good advice as I attend job seeking workshops and wanted to share what I’ve learned for those interested. Today’s topic is doing phone interviews to learn about a company you eventually want to get hired at. These interviews would take place with employees who are not the hiring manager you want to eventually job interview with.

–        Suggest book: what color is my parachute.

–        Before you call and interview someone Research the company. Here are some ways to research a company: ask yourself what you can do for the company

–        talk to people who work for the company ask them what they do ask them what they want to hear from new employees

–        ask: what you looking for?

–        Ask: what is your hot button?

–        Determine for yourself why you’re getting info:

–        know what is currently going on in the industry.

–        Find out more about the corporate culture for career exploration

–        interview positions and have them attach names to functions.

–        In the beginning of the personal interview, you may want to ask a personal question that can open up the dialogue to be more casual conversation.(Maybe about what them and your friend has related to each other).

–        An information interview will be with other employees other than the person that is the hiring manager.

–        The purpose of the information interview is pretty educated about industry

–        during the conversation with the information interview take notes down right after the interview. Then a couple of days later. Choose a topic within that conversation that can be the reason why you communicate with the person they interviewed a second time to maybe get clarification on something of you to clarify and something in the email. Leave your name and phone number and email address

These are just a few things to consider when talking to someone over the phone and asking them about their company. Most people are willing to give advice and talk about themselves.

If you have other advice to offer, please feel free to share it in the comment section of this blog. Thanks.

 

This entry was posted in The Things I've Recently Learned. Bookmark the permalink.

Comments are closed.