Professional Sales Job Interviews

In my previous post, I discussed panel interview and how it is conducted. Now, let me share with you some tips to help you get a high grade on the panel interview score card:

1. Establish eye contact. Look in the eye of the person giving the question to show your sincerity and alertness.
2. Make sure you know what’s on your resume. They read your resume and therefore, interview questions may come from it so make sure you know your resume well.
3. Show confidence. The most important thing of all is to appear confident in front of the panel.
4. Prepare good questions for the interviewers. After you have been questioned, it will be your turn next. Make sure you have good questions in mind that could impress them.

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According to About.com, a panel interview is a type of interview where there are two or more interviewers. The main objective is to test the interviewee’s stress tolerance. It also aims to know how the interviewee will initiate an interaction with his future bosses and workmates should he get hired.

At any given point, a panel interview consists of multiple interviewers who belong to the different parts of the organization. They take turns in throwing questions to the interviewee. Questions here range from easy to difficult as there are more people that work together in squeezing out knowledge and information from the interviewee.

Although the frequency of getting a panel interview is little as one-on-one interviews are more common, it is highly advisable that a job seeker be prepared for this kind of interview.

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