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Does anyone have experience interviewing with Deloitte Internal Services? I had my final interview a week and a half ago, and received positive feedback throughout. The hiring manager had positive things to say and mentioned they hoped to make a decision by the end of last week. It’s now Friday the week after. The role still shows as “Interviews in Process.” We did discuss potential start dates, but no salary. Any experience with receiving offers for an internal services role? Is this common?
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Omg I have this same problem I literally walked away from two interviews this last week because I was scared I wouldn't know what to say. I try to go over the questions before my interview as well. One thing that's helped me is I tell myself that if it's meant for me to get the job then I'll get it. Put your faith and trust into some sort of higher power and let go of the control. I believe we need to have faith in something or someone other then ourselves or a lot of us will fail and be scared to try again. Good luck I'll be praying for you.
What type of job interviews are you involved in?
I hope you know that getting to the interview phase means they like you on paper. They just want to see how you would fit on their team and with particular scenarios they already know you would encounter. Take a calming breath and give yourself time to collect yourself before responding. I get nervous too, so I try to slow things down in my head and really connect to what they are asking. I also used AI to give me questions based on the job description, then gave my answers via voice to text. That helped me improve a lot. Perhaps that might work for you.
the best thing to do is practice with a friend the night before. take it seriously do a full mock interview. saying the information out loud helps more than you think. tell them why you're the best fit for the position vs stories. you're literally laying out your experience to them and why you fit the position, you know this stuff very well. Just remind yourself its not that deep, they wanna see how you interact and handle yourself under pressure. practice out loud by urself if u cant find anyone to help. you can do this.
I think the majority of us do have this problem. I've ended up having to create a script with prompts so I know what to say when I freak out. This whole process is flawed. But we have to work we're within the confines of this whole stupid process. Just keep at it. Keep trying someone's going to see past all this nonsense and give you A job. I'm praying it happens for me too 🙏
Sorry to hear… interview is an art and needs a lot of practice. For each line of your resume, you need to have couple of story / scenarios to talk about. For each job you held, have 3-5 stories ready to go, situational, collaboration, efficiency, leadership, conflicts… practice each of these scenarios over and over.. record yourself… good luck !
If you have the time and resources, try more interviews. Apply for jobs you don’t really want so you can exercise all steps in a interview. You can get better at it if you present a calm self, and give yourself a chance to reflect on what you doing right/wrong.
So the company can have 10 people interviewed ( 10 people who are financially struggling, mentally and emotionally giving everything in a interview so 9 of them to get a reply that says:”Sorry, but we decided to proceed with some else who is a better fit “ , without getting a real feedback that could help them improve and get better for next interview), but the applicants cannot use any opportunity to develop themselves?
You are definitely not alone. A job I can do with my eyes closed, then when it's time for interviews, I start saying gibberish or go blank sometimes. I have lost some pretty good jobs but am working on it. I hope something comes up soon.
This is why you should practice the answers to the most common interview questions before your interview. You can use google to find the most common interview questions and how to answer them,
OMG SAME!! I used to be so good at interviewing, and as I got older and haven't worked in years - because I was a stay-at-home mom - now I'm trying to get back into the work force, these interview questions blow my mind! I'm interviewing for a secretary job, not to be the VP of a company! "Tell me about yourself." "How would you handle a situation?" "Why do you want to work for this firm"? etc.... So ridiculous! Give me a chance, and I'll show you how I work and handle situations, and if you don't like it, then fire me!
They don't have time to hire people who may quit if it didn't work out in the interview and they just hired you. See it from the point of view and really have answers for them, the interview is for you to vet the company as well to see if it's a good fit for you. Upsell your skills and personality, there are books at the library on how to ace the interview and answer all the questions you may think are rediculous. But they are standard questions, you can do this if you want the job and there are more than dozens of applicants for a position at any given time if not more so bear with the process if you want to position
I go into an interview prepared as if for an acting role. The person I'm portraying is me. So I create a little distance mentally if that makes sense. It's not me under the gun answering questions, Its the performance of being me. I also bring a prepared answer for "why are you changing jobs" aka "what do you want out of a job". So like an actor finding character motivation I explain to myself my motivation for switching jobs. This does not have to be my real motivation but it has to be a real motivation and be something I feel. I have to create the "tell me about yourself" dialogue as well. It's actually just another version of "why are you looking for a job". They don't want to know all about me but do want to know what about me makes sense for hiring. If I was a nervous interviewer I would schedule the spot to say "Sorry I get pretty tense interviewing. My job really means a lot to me and I'm afraid I'll mess it up and get kind of nervous." That's 100% true so calculating a time to say it is not faking anything. I would not lead with it. I would try it deter answering at lest one question. When you see that go over okay, when they respond empathetically, you did it, your bit of the interview worked and you can relax a little. As pieces of the interview fall into place you relax into your part and are more the real you and less the prepared role of performing as you.
This works for me. Good luck.
Have mercy I know the feeling, I used to be pretty smooth going into an interview, and would train myself to expect the out-of-left-field questions (to which some I feel are personally pointless to ask), but my past two recent interviews threw curveball questions I hadn't gotten yet and I blue-screened like nobody's business... wound up losing them. It took some weeks to remember how and what worked best for me since an accident messed up my brain.
Personally, it worked best to collect past interview questions that were beyond the typical, and have them on hand to memorize so they're fresh in the mind as you enter. What I would do is the moment the interview was finished and I headed for the car, I'd take down notes on my phone of what they asked, so later I had something to work with on responses in case they came up again. I'd go over them in the car prior to an upcoming appointment too, and while the responses weren't necessarily word-for-word the in the heat of it, kind of staying in the lines worked. It paid to be honest, confident but kind, and while yeah it would suck to get turned down, the mindset of "eh, there will be more chances" helped to keep me calm, rather than acting like it was land mines under a rug of glass shards.
Still looking for something, but now the biggest issue is just not getting a response to my inquiries outright. Guess things gotta be old fashioned and just go into a hiring business with application/resume in hand.
Haha your sooo me in a nutshell 🥹😬😂
I remember the days before internet, you drive up to the company and fill out an application and no questions ask as long as you could pass a physical and drug screen and ad I climbed the ladder in the oil and gas industry, one question they would ask about the work involved and you were hired and as I started working internationally, they looked over your resume and ask when can you fly
After 29 years in oil and gas, I changed industries , got my degree in construction management and then all hell broke loose.
Im 60, my resume passed the computer scan, got the many phone calls, passed the initial phone call and THEN, the zoom call came, they would ask crazy questions that have nothing to do with the job, I was applying for and then woukd get the many emails, sorry to inform you, we are looking someone that better fits our needs . Its because of my age , yes age discrimination.
Yeah but some people try to make you feel small. At First light the two women who interviewed me. Told me at the end I did great! 👍🏻 haha so why am I still not working. It’s like don’t sugar coat just be bluntly honest and say. Something other than you did great but they didn’t have the audacity to call and say I’m just not a good fit. But silence in powerful 😓.. but i haven’t given up yet. Care to stay Home is a great agency to work for.
Sorry you feel that way, but don't take it personal maybe you did do great in the interview and somebody else just did better and was a better fit for the position. You never know it could be nepotism they could have hired a family member they could have decided against hiring for the position a multitude of things could have happened. But don't give up revamp your resume take a couple of classes at the community college or online have something new went up today to add an offer to the employers you're trying to work for. Best of luck finding a job is a job and it takes quite a bit of work and effort and hours weekly and daily to get your next job especially if you're trying to get a good one and not just basic anybody can do job.
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Have notes that you can glance at, even just bullet points. Your interviewers have notes, and so can you.
You won't look bad by having notes. They have notes, after all. Just glance at them sometimes rather than reading while looking down continuously. Rather than looking down, place notes on a typing stand. That way your eyes just go a bit sideways.
My recommendation to resolve this is to collaborate with a very intelligent and experienced person you trust to practice interviewing. Work with Glassdoor, Indeed, and LinkedIn resources for practice interviewing. Use AI to formulate common interview questions as well as ones specific to your role.
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Same problem I had. What I ended up doing was reading a bunch of prepared notes I had then trying to explain it to a child in simple terms. Like for you, it might be “I spent the last 10 years in truck delivery, and gained lots of experience coordinating complex routes in the food and beverage industry”
I go into an interview prepared as if for an acting role. The person I'm portraying is me. So I create a little distance mentally if that makes sense. It's not me under the gun answering questions, Its the performance of being me. I also bring a prepared answer for "why are you changing jobs" aka "what do you want out of a job". So like an actor finding character motivation I explain to myself my motivation for switching jobs. This does not have to be my real motivation but it has to be a real motivation and be something I feel. I have to create the "tell me about yourself" dialogue as well. It's actually just another version of "why are you looking for a job". They don't want to know all about me but do want to know what about me makes sense for hiring. If I was a nervous interviewer I would schedule the spot to say "Sorry I get pretty tense interviewing. My job really means a lot to me and I'm afraid I'll mess it up and get kind of nervous." That's 100% true so calculating a time to say it is not faking anything. I would not lead with it. I would try it deter answering at lest one question. When you see that go over okay, when they respond empathetically, you did it, your bit of the interview worked and you can relax a little. As pieces of the interview fall into place you relax into your part and are more the real you and less the prepared role of performing as you.
This works for me. Good luck.
you know yourself better than anyone else , be honest tell what your good at and what your bad at , example , I’m a good organizer , I can take criticism , or , I don’t like tedious task , etc , we all have good and bad points , don’t pretend your Superman ,
I end up saying the most inappropriate thing.
I put it in a wordy manner.
I become friendly.
I have a 3 minute story on a complaint.
I wish the blank could be an editing process.
They dont need somebody with experiences ,
they need somebody who is dumb for less £🤷♀️