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I have an interview tomorrow morning, any tips, suggestions advice? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Interviewing for a part time internship for Entry Level IT. I am a full time student Comp Sci major and wanna go into networking, servers, security, so hopefully this gets me my foot in the door. I am a terrible soft skills person and really nervous. My friends told me to print out my resume and transcripts, I will surely do that. Anybody got anything else to suggest?

Update: I got the position! I honestly didn't even prepare for it, didn't even know what the company did. The comment that talked about learning to search things up was right on, they asked me what I would do if I didn't know how to do something. I answered "looking things up, asking others, and consult documentation." The company seemed really cool and is structured pretty much like Valve Corp in that they wanted jacks of all trades and it was company owned.

Thank you for all the helpful advice. It definitely helped me out, and hopefully, it helps others out as well.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not in your industry, but I've interviewef many, many....too many people who were looking for entry level positions and although I had the standard hot sheet of corp. questions, what I was looking for was how this person would fit into the team, if they were willing to learn (demonstrated or had examples), and if they had a good personality/traits.

Do not beat yourself up if you do not get the position, I have turned down people because they were better than what I was offering and knew it would not work out if I hired them then.

Ask where this position may lead to and what skill sets you're expected to gain from the experience in an internship role.

Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait you turned down people because they were too good?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It happens, you know they won't last because they will take the first opportunity to fit thier skill level and leave you high n dry. It's overqualified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, it's a thing that happens. It's quite common for an over-qualified person to be bored, hard to work with, and just picking up a paycheck while they're looking for different work. Hiring an employee is expensive. If you can't keep them for a while and/or they're not a good fit for the team then you can be better off just leaving the position vacant.