Yesterday I had a telephone interview for job in Edinburgh, ignore the location for now, it is a job where my experience matches perfectly bar one very important point. However company states they prefer someone who was experience in all aspects or the least in what I have as they can train the rest. It is IT Business analyst job. Thing is I have no idea how to do that job so how would you go about doing the interview? One just can not learn everything overnight? Today I had phone call about another job and while 60% of tasks I am perfect at the remaining 40% I have not done for ages or almost at all. Good thing going for me is I worked as contractor for said company before and worked with the guy who interviews me and he remembers me. I guess question is how do you go about making them not ask you about the 40%? If they do you lie or be truthful? I know that you can add a bit of colour but to much in IT might result in disaster
You have two options, 1. Lie. However, if they ask you to do the stuff that you don't know, they will find you out and have you by the knackers. Or 2. If you have somebody working under you, get the lackey to do all the work!
Tell the truth, personally when I am interviewing I would rather people told me the truth so we can train them rather than have them lie and then make a mess of it. Try the totally truthful line of 'I know most of the job, but I do not know (or perhaps am slightly hazy) about this bit, I feel it would be better if you trained me so I can do it to your expected standards.' Or perhaps 'I have sone it before, but a bit of a refresher on how you guys work with this' might be a good answer.
Well Hilton is a company that has a strict, uniform selection process. There was about 40 people applying for two positions. Probably because applying for it is not as easy as "Quick apply" button on many sites. You have to create account and put all details from your CV in to their system. It is all done to easily compare candidates. I know I worked for them in the past. They have disregarded most of them by now. Interview it self was a set of questions on standard Hilton interview questioner. You know behavioural questions. What would you do if, have you ever done, how would you act here and give examples off.... Plenty of them. However we had a good chat about now and past times when I worked for them, bikes (WTF all IT people ride bikes?!) and loads about day to day operation in the role. He will meet VP tomorrow and they will try and shortlist applicants by Friday evening for 2nd interview. Will let know if next week. Funny thing is I went with mostly truthful approach and it turned out that yets was the closest. Most tasks are handed down to outsourced 1st line support
:biggrin: it's how I've been treated all my career but now I'm in the position to do that to others now! Good luck, I hope you get the job.
