Mock Interview Research Paper

In my reflective essay I will explore the experiences I encountered in my mock interview. This was my first interview, so I didn’t know exactly what to expect. As I waited for my turn to arrive, I grow nervous by the second. I didn’t know what kind of question I was going to get asked or what question I should ask at the end of the interview. Another reason I was nervous was because I knew that the interview was five minutes long, that sounded like a long time, and time seems to go a lot slower when someone want it to go by faster. When it was finally my turn I went in and tried my best to make the interview go as smooth as possible.
As the interview went on, I became less nervous and became more relax. The questions that were asked were simple
and they were asked with a nice calm voice which made me feel comfortable as I try my best to answer them. When the question of why I should get hired instead of other people with more experience than me came up, I try my best to come up with the right answer. Another question that I wasn’t ready for was negotiating salary. I wasn’t really sure how much money I should ask for since I’m still learning. There are many skills that I need to learn. When my interview was finally over I felt that It went by pretty fast, it didn’t felt like five minutes. As I walk out of the office I knew that I did pretty good job with the interview.
The next class time, we went over on how we did on the interview and what we can do to improve on our interview skills. When we first started the class I thought that I have done a good on my interview but by the end of the class I realized that my interview didn’t go as good as I had thought. There was a lot of things that I didn’t do or I didn’t do them right.
Some of the simplest thing that I could have done and didn’t thing about, was to look around my interviewer’s office and comment on some of the things that I saw. Commenting on the thing that I saw would help make connect with my interviewer and also help the interview go smoother by making the atmosphere more relax and friendly. Another thing that I did wrong was I didn’t control the environment, my chair was way too far from my interviewer and I didn’t move the chair so I could get closer to him. I was nervous and didn’t think about moving my chair, but now I see that moving the chair would have been a good idea. I learned that some interviewer might actually put the chair far away and see if you move it closer.
I also learned that sometimes interviewer might asked illegal question without realizing that they are asking an illegal question, he might still be learning how to interview people and not familiar with what question he should not asked.
If you realized that you just got asked an illegal question don’t tell the interviewer that he can’t asked that question because it’s an illegal question, he might get offended and mad that you are telling him how to do his job and that won’t help you with your interviewer. He might not know that’s an illegal question. Instead you got two options, the first one is to tell them that you rather not answer that question, the second one is if you don’t care about the question than just can answer it. But you should ask yourself if you really want to work for a company that asks illegal question.
As class went on I realized that I have a lot to improve on. One thing that I need to improve on is to tell a short story as an example to how my skills help me to resolve a problem. Telling a short story is a better example that just telling the interviewer about my skill. Another thing I need to work on is negotiating salary, I need to make sure that we both agreed on a salary that work for both of us. If you not careful when negotiating on a salary you could be giving up thousands of dollars. So you need to be careful because you could be giving away a new
car.
So it’s very important to do some research about the company that you want to work for. This will show the interviewer that you are serious about working for their company. When you go in for the interview don’t forget to use a short story when talking about your skills. It is also a good idea to send the interviewer a thank you card for taking the time to interview you, even if you don’t get the job. This will make you look good with the interviewer and even though you didn’t get the job, he might know another company that are looking for employees with your level of skills and he might recommend you to that company.