Being a Consultant! Attending Interviews will be a part of
our profession, now a days I find interviewers from most of the Company are
looking for a candidate who can answer to most of their questions irrespective
of the fact (Answering questions will not make a person capable to handle a
given task efficiently).
Why am I making this as a point here?
I need interviewers
to understand that most of the efficient guys who have real proven experience
for more than three years will not have an attitude to prepare for an interview
as they did on their initial days. Instead they would have developed the skills
required to tackle any kind of issues that they might face with the product or
the client. Hence they don’t want to learn the product field by field to prove
their ground - that they are capable. Instead they know the road map to follow when
they hit an issue. This is what a consultant should have to perform in his job!
Not the talent to answer all the interviewers’ question.
Of course consultant should answer for the interviewer’s question!
But most of the time I see interviewers ask the question
that they have learnt in their resent past experience when they have encountered
an issue. It doesn’t mean every single person working in that module should
have encountered the same issue and should know the answer otherwise I see them
asking the question what is the effect of this check box? Or this particular
filed in this particular screen?
Or other funny question is! They might have had a peculiar requirement
with their present client, hence they might have provided a custom or standard
solution after doing homework for weeks or days but they will ask the same scenario
as a question and will expect the candidate to reply immediately or they will
fell happy internally that they are the one who knows a solution. (I call them Bolt Headed)
Then what has to be questioned?
If you really need to find a capable person, ask them to
explain about the product and its functionalities, ask them how they will
encounter a road block, ask them what is their day to day job and the issues
they face and how they rectify the issues, ask them where are the areas they
will look for a solution when they need the most. If the interviewer is an experienced
guy, by asking all these questions he can easily find a capable candidate
rather than irritating the candidates with client centric or interviewer’s
knowledge centric questions.
Think Practical! Go Practical! to find Practical people!
Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan
00965 - 66382159
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