TYPES OF INTERVIEW//PART-9

Tag-Team Interview:

Companies often want to gain the insights of various employees when interviewing candidates. Thus, the tag-team interview conducted by two or more interviewers who typically work different jobs.
This interview type is often attractive for companies that rely heavily on team cooperation. Not only does the company want to know whether or not you're a good fit for the company, but also whether or not you get along with other workers as a team player.
In some companies, a tag-team interview means that two or more interviewers will take turns and play off each other to simultaneously interview you in the same room.
In other companies, a tag-team interview means that you will proceed through a series of one-on-one interviews with various interviewers, typically all on the same day.

In either case, your interviewers might consist of department managers, supervisors, project leads, HR personnel, future coworkers or a blend.

Helpful tips for capitalizing on either type of tag-team interview are listed below

• Treat each person as an important individual. Ask for each interviewer's business card at the beginning of the meeting, if possible, and refer to each by name. If there are several interviewers in the room at once, you might wish to scribble down their names on a sheet of paper according to where each is sitting.
• Briefly make eye contact with each interviewer, while speaking directly to the interviewer who asked the question.
• Use the opportunity to gain as much information about the company as you can. Just as each interviewer has a different function in the company, each has a unique perspective. When asking questions, be sensitive not to place anyone in a position that invites him or her to compromise confidentiality or loyalty.
• Be ready to illustrate your main message in a variety of ways to a variety of people.
• Prepare psychologically to expend more energy and be more alert than you would in a one-on-one interview.
• Stay focused, but flexible.
• Send a thank you note to each of your tag-team interviewers.