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Appian Acing Your Interview Workshop (Virtual) Career Prep Series

What is Appian

  • AI-powered business process company
  • Could often see them on grounds during fairs

Type of interviews

Online interviews

  • These are not technically interviews
  • This is the recruiter looking at your linkedin or handshake profile
  • Rupamatch is another site
  • Since the profile pages are not limited like a one page resume put as much stuff as possible
  • The recruiter are just gonna scroll. They won’t get tired scrolling. So put as many keywords as possible.
  • Many companies have like a crawler that searches for these keywords. This is how some send out recruiting emails

Career fair interviews

  • These too are not technically interviews. These are the interactions you have with recruiters in fairs and other career events
  • When talking to someone please have a clear objective about what you want to get out of the interaction
  • Dont ask stuff that can be found easily by googling

How you made them feel is the most important

  • Lead with a joke or be passionate and personable
  • Prepare different pitches for different companies

Actual interviews

  • Know the expectation of the interviewer
  • During a Phone screen interview the recruiter just wants to know your interests and stuff. They are not highly technical in nature
  • Video interview with the team or a hiring manager is going to be technical

Strategies

Coordination

  • Be flexible
  • Let them know when you will be free upfront

Preparation

  • Stalk the interviewer on Linkedin
  • no, they won’t mind you if it shows “X viewed your profile”
  • Recruiters usually deal with high level stuff while team/hiring manager can be low level and technical
  • Questions are a two-way street so ask questions yourself

Practice

  • Practice a lot
  • Practice “Tell me about yourself” a million times
    • Use the STAR method
      • Situation
      • Task
      • Action
      • Result
    • Write down all of the results that you have achieved and work in reverse

Selling and Closing

  • What did you learn and how will that help in this role
  • Have a good answer for “why " you want this job
    • Have something extremely personal instead of platitudes