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The best way to practice interviewing in my opinion is to just do it. Go to your LinkedIn and send a boilerplate message to all the recruiters that have ever co
by NathanKP 11y ago
The best way to practice interviewing in my opinion is to just do it. Go to your LinkedIn and send a boilerplate message to all the recruiters that have ever contacted you:
"Hey this sounds interesting. I'd love to learn more."
The next week will probably be one of the busiest of your life, but you'll come out of it with confidence in your interview skills hard earned by hours of talking with crappy companies that you would probably never want to actually work for, but are just using for interview practice.
If you are in a high demand job market like NYC or SF it is likely that you will also come out of that first week with multiple job offers that you end up declining because you didn't really want to work for those companies in the first place.
- soham 11y ago+1 Also realize the limitation of doing this: You'll get "practice", but you won't get "feedback". If you practice with a bunch of B and C companies, but end up getting rejected from As, then you won't know why that is happening. At that point, you may get tired of interviewing and would end up taking something that's suboptimal. So guard against that. If you want to work at an A company, then I'd say at least some of your practice interviews should also be with A companies. Even then, you won't get the raw, uncut, deliberate feedback that you want. For that, you want to practice with seasoned interviewers. Use something like us (http://InterviewKickstart.com http://InterviewKickstart.com) or what Aline does (http://interviewing.io http://interviewing.io).
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoAsk for the feedback. Sure, you may not get it, but asking costs nothing and can get you something.
- eru 11y agoFacebook for example is actually pretty good about giving feedback. (Google, not so much.)