By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter helps to explain the format and reasoning behind what occurs at a panel interview and how to ace them every time.
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Hi! I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m called The Big Game Hunter because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for more than 40 years. Today, I’m going to talk with you about panel interviewing which has a different sort of orientation and a feel to it than a traditional interview.
Why? Because three or four people are sitting opposite you, putting you through the great inquisition to figure out how you fit. Now, how do you prepare for a panel? Real easy. Let’s start off with understanding who it is that you’re going to be sitting and facing, what their particular backgrounds are, what their role is in the organization and, thus, you can figure out what their agenda is.
See, the members of the panel aren’t four people from the same group or department. Often, they’re from related groups and departments. They may do similar things.
They may interact with one another but, ultimately, they have a different agenda in mind. The other thing to remember is whatever you answer may engender a response from one of the other panel members. After all, you may be talking to a panel member from one department and let’s use IT as an example.
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You may talk to a member of the programming team but there’s someone there representing the user community and they want to understand how your answer relates to them. It’s not that they don’t understand but your answer may trigger something in them. Also remember the three or four people there, they’re all kind of vying for for their questions that come out.
They’re all looking for face time with you. They’re all looking to evaluate because, ultimately, they have to give you a thumb up or a thumb down at the end of this process. So, as you answer questions, understand who you’re talking to and what their role is and as you . . . and this is the physical part of the process.
As you talk to the questioner, the person who poses the initial question to you, you start talking with them and then you start turning your head to talk to each of the other people but always end your answer talking to that original questioner. It’s a subtle thing but it allows you to to do what I think is really important in the room and that is to try and develop rapport with each person that’s there. This is Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter.
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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the producer and former host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 3000 episodes.
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