I have decided to dedicate this week’s blog entries to relaying my personal experiences with the "I" word. You all know and love a little thing we like to call interviewing. I don’t know about you, but I remember how scared I was for my first interview and being stumped by relatively simple-sounding questions like "Tell me about yourself." I would sit there and think, "Well, what do they want to know? That I have a brother and an African gray parrot that talks, or that I’m a finance and accounting major who really wants this job?" Man, this is a tough one. Then you sit thinking about it for a minute while the interviewer is thinking, "this person can’t even think of something to tell me about herself? That’s sad."
Consulting interviews can be particularly difficult because interviewers try hard to give you questions that make you think, trick you, or place you in real life job situations. Here are a couple of questions I have gotten during various consulting interviews that made me think and wish I had prepared for:
- Tell me about a time when you were creative.
- Why is a manhole cover round?
Any version of the "tell me about a time when" question can be pretty obscure but it is always good to have about five or six experiences in your head that could be molded to answer any question. Use your extracurricular activities and work in the classroom to your advantage!
And the manhole question, well that’s just weird and of course I got it wrong. The interviewer told me that they just want to see if you can reason through trick questions. It’s not necessarily important that you get the answer right, but that your thought process in reaching the answer is sound. By the way, the answer is, so that it can be rolled from one manhole to another or so that it will never fall through the hole. Who knew?
Do your research on the types of interview questions you will get! Here are some great sources:
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