The Behavioral Interview
Many companies increasingly rely on behavior interviews since they use your previous behavior to indicate your future performance. In these interviews, employers use standardized methods to mine information relevant to your competency in a particular area or position. Depending upon the responsibilities of the job and the working environment, you might be asked to describe a time that required problem-solving skills, adaptability, leadership, conflict resolution, multi-tasking, initiative or stress management. You will be asked how you dealt with the situations.
Your responses require not only reflection, but also organization. To maximize your responses in the behavioral format:
Anticipate the transferable skills and personal qualities that are required for the job.
Review your resume. Any of the qualities and skills you have included in your resume are fair game for an interviewer to press.
Reflect on your own professional, volunteer, educational and personal experience to develop brief stories that highlight these skills and qualities in you. You should have a story for each of the competencies on your resume as well as those you anticipate the job requires.
Prepare stories by identifying the context, logically highlighting your actions in the situation, and identifying the results of your actions. Keep your responses concise and present them in less than two minutes.

types of interview

Chronological

The interviewer will go through your experience chronologically and you will be expected to expand on items in your application.

Structured, Criteria Based

The interviewer will ask a series of questions based on the skills and qualities required for the job and expect you to give examples of when you have demonstrated these attributes. This method examines your past behaviour as a predictor of future behaviour. This type of interview is much more common now than chronological, especially with large graduate employers.

Technical

If your degree is directly relevant to the job, you are likely to be asked detailed questions about aspects of it. The interviewer will be trying to determine if you possess the technical know-how to do the job, that you can apply technical theory to practical problems, that you have a genuine interest in the technology and that you can back up any claims of technical skills that you have made in your application.

Case Study

Case study interviews are becoming increasingly common especially during interviews for management consulting firms. The aim of the case study interview is two-fold; firstly to see if the candidate is suited to the type of work the organisation undertakes and, secondly to give the candidate an opportunity to see if they enjoy this type of work.

types of interview

A structured interview
(also known as a standardised interview or a researcher-administered survey) is a quantitative research method commonly employed in survey research.
Structured interviews are a means of collecting data for a statistical survey.
A structured interview also standardises the order in which questions are asked of survey respondents, so the questions are always answered within the same context.

Unstructured Interviews are a method of interviews where questions can be changed or adapted to meet the respondent's intelligence, understanding or belief. Unlike a structured interview they do not offer a limited, pre-set range of answers for a respondent to choose, but instead advocate listening to how each individual person responds to the question.

The Screening Interview
Companies use screening tools to ensure that candidates meet minimum qualification requirements. Computer programs are among the tools used to weed out unqualified candidates. (This is why you need a digital resume that is screening-friendly. See our resume center for help.
The Informational Interview
On the opposite end of the stress spectrum from screening interviews is the informational interview. A meeting that you initiate, the informational interview is underutilized by job-seekers who might otherwise consider themselves savvy to the merits of networking.
The Stress Interview
Astounding as this is, the Greek hazing system has made its way into professional interviews. Either employers view the stress interview as a legitimate way of determining candidates' aptness for a position or someone has latent maniacal tendencies.
The Group Interview
Interviewing simultaneously with other candidates can be disconcerting, but it provides the company with a sense of your leadership potential and style. The group interview helps the company get a glimpse of how you interact with peers-are you timid or bossy, are you attentive or do you seek attention, do others turn to you instinctively, or do you compete for authority
The Team Interview
This method of interviewing is often attractive for companies that rely heavily on team cooperation

When I Saw Your Eyes

Will you ever?

I don't think you will
ever fully understand
how you've touched my life
and made me who I am.

I don't think you could ever know
just how truly special you are
that even on the darkest nights
you are my brightest star.

I don't think you will ever fully comprehend
how you've made my dreams come true
or how you've opened my heart
to love and the wonders it can do.

You've allowed me to experience
something very hard to find
unconditional love that exists
in my body, soul, and mind.

I don't think you could ever feel
all the love I have to give
and I'm sure you'll never realize
you've been my will to live.

You are an amazing person
and without you I don't know where I'd be.
Having you in my life
completes and fulfills every part of me.

feaures story

love poems

A Special World

A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.

- Sheelagh Lennon -