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1. Stress Interview is aimed at discovering how the job applicant behaves in critical situations. The interviewer is posing questions and making remarks intended to make the job-seeker become defensive. However, this is the last thing the candidate wants to demonstrate if he or she wants to do well at the job interview. Such a compromising remark as “You lack experience in this or that field and will not able to maintain the tasks assigned to the position” should not embarrass you. Smile and provide the relative experience you possess, and also stress you ability for learning quickly.

2. Behavioral Interview. This type of interview is based on the belief that your past performance is the best indicator of your future performance. That is why during this interview you are asked to tell in detail about your past working experience, your achievements and failures.

3. Tepid Interview. At such an interview the candidate gets an impression that his interlocutor is just ticking items in his or her to-do list, since they are listening passively, making short notes, requiring no additional detail. If you realize you are having such an interview, be alert – this means that another applicant performed really well at the interview, and you are loosing the chances to compete for the position advertised. Try to be active and interest the interviewer in your qualifications.

4. Group Interview is an interview during which two or more candidates are being screened at the same time. This is usually done in order to recognize the applicants’ skills for interaction and cooperation with others. Your task here is to demonstrate your being a good team-player, communicating with others and maintaining mutual tasks together.

5. Panel Interview. This type of interview is also often called a group interview. However, in this case the ‘group’ is represented not by multiple candidates but by multiple interviewers. The aim of holding such an interview could be different: to see how the applicant performs under stress and pressure (you will have to answer many questions from different people) or just to get the opinion of your performance from more than one staff member.

6. Lunch/ Dinner Interview is usually hold with the purpose of discovering the candidate’s ability to maintain multiple tasks simultaneously (you will have to eat and speak at the same time) and also to handle stressful situations gracefully. Keep cool, concentrate on the talk and mind your table manners!