Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Interview (management school)

had an interview at management school for a data analysis and evaluation position. Was a bit nervous, but presentation went down well. Interview was hard, but not unreasonable. I am kicking myself for not having a good response to a couple of questions. I'm still not interviewing fluently, just seem to lose any semblance of eloquence. Specifically was asked about chi-squared, and just went blank really, it just a statistical test for goodness sake. I have since thought of at least 5 good responses, only one of which needed additional info to what I had at hand.

interviews (K-now, DCS)

I went for an interview at a knowledge management specialist company that is a spin out of the Department of Computer Science at Sheffield. I have not heard anything, but it was a while ago, so I guess I did not get the job and they do not inform people even of interview failures! They are looking for 4 people though so it might be quite complicated at their end and they cannot say anything for sure.

I also interviewed at Computer Science itself (with one of the people from the above chairing this also). They have got back to me within 2 days, negatively. I get the feeling I am not getting myself across positively in interviews. V. Annoying because in some cases I realise later I knew good responses to the questions. Not sure interviews are a great way of selecting people TBH.