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How to Beat the Online Interview
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Traditional face-to-face interviews are tough enough, but prescreened computer interviews present new perils if you’re not prepared. The computer interview has been around a while, but over the past few years more companies are using them as a timesaver and to narrow the field of potential candidates.
The reasoning behind computer interviews is simple: In a competitive job market, why waste precious time interviewing a slew of candidates when you can weed out undesirable ones by using a comprehensive online interview? The idea is to remove the maximum number of unqualified applicants with the minimum number of questions. This interview method is especially popular with many IT, computer and networking companies when they search for engineers, project managers, CIOs and software developers, to name a few.
Information services company EDS called its questionnaire the “first step of our new developmental recruiting process.” EDS has an entire website devoted to prescreening potential candidates. Before ever shaking your hand, an interviewer knows all about you: where you worked, your GPA, and most important, whether you’re a team player, problem solver or potential fast tracker based on your personality traits (introvert, extrovert, etc.).
The EDS online interview is not something you can knock out while watching …
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