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An employer has offered me several interviewing time and they are 9 to 12, 12 to 3, 3 to 5
I want to pick any time from 12 to 3, but my reservation with this time slot is that 12 to 2 is lunch time or the period before and after lunch, so I'm worry that I may encounter the following scenarios:
1. People wanting to leave for lunch so they want to finish the interview as soon as possible
2. people's attention span and listening patience (they just come back from lunch and maybe they have no interest to listen to any serious talking)
I'm sure there're more issues, but I can only think of these for now
so how will these factors affect my interview?
Is it a good sign that people want to have a quick interview with me?
What I want to say is, I don't want to be scrutinized, so I want to pick a good time slot where I won't be overly-judged for what I wear, how I look, what my job history is etc....
I never pick 9am because I always worry about people not getting that up to speed after they arrive at work. I mean some may not want to start an interview so early after a long commune to the office or some are not fully awake yet
I have been on both sides of the interview table at different times of the day. The best time is when you are comfortable and relaxed. I have seen some problems with early morning interviews, though.
Sometimes, the hiring manager may be late arriving at the office. The appointment ends up being cancelled. You waste your gas in rush hour for nothing.
If you do a morning interview, 9:30 am or later should be fine.
Having done hundreds of interviews, a good interview is a good interview and a bad interview is a bad interview, regardless of the time of day. Sometimes the best candidate is the last person on the last day of interviews.
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Originally Posted by joe from dayton
Having done hundreds of interviews, a good interview is a good interview and a bad interview is a bad interview, regardless of the time of day. Sometimes the best candidate is the last person on the last day of interviews.
While I agree completely, there may be some interviewers that succumb to distraction by hunger or fatigue and don't put forth their best effort. As a hiring manager that has done hundred of interviews, I'll offer what I have found to be my experience. When interviewing 15-20 people we have to rate them based on our memory and notes on the others. Those that went early on in the process may not be remembered as well, by the last 1-2 it may be tempting to rush it and get the process over with. My recommendation is 3rd last on the last day as the best chance of getting the full attention of the interviewers. This is normally not a problem however, because there always seems to be one person
that stands out above the others. In the last 4 I have hired, there was no one close to the person selected. Each was a 9-10 on a scale of 1-10 with the next at about 6-7 so nothing in the timing of the interview would have made any difference.
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