The interview is one of the most important phases of the job search process. Your resume and cover letter are simply tools to get you to the interviewing stage. The interview is your opportunity to convince an employer that you are the right person for the job.
As the interviewee, the main purposes of the interview are to:
Communicate information about yourself, your experience and your abilities,
Seek further information about the position and the organization,
Evaluate the match between your needs and what the job offers
Types of an interview that can be defined in 10 different ways
Structured Interview: Here, every single detail of the interview is decided in advance. The questions to be asked, the order in which the questions will be asked, the time given to each candidate, the information to be collected from each candidate, etc. is all decided in advance. Structured interview is also called Standardized, Patterned, Directed or Guided interview. Structured interviews are preplanned. They are accurate and precise. All the interviews will be uniform (same). Therefore, there will be consistency and minimum bias in structured interviews.
