Hi all,
I am a student hier in Germany and I am graduating late next month as MSc in IT.
After a first interview on phone,I have got another invitation for the second round of interview in the software Company.I have done some interviews in the past here in DE for student jobs and internships...I have not yet any experience about how is an interview for a Msc position in a company in DE.
I have been already told that the interview will last 90 min.
Could you give me some advices on how to prepare myself?
Have a nice day ...
Jordan

Just stay cool, be nice, smile and present your self at best light.
Remember, your are selling your self, you nolidgmente, your qualification your experience and you have to be the perfect man for the job.
As best you present sour self, so you get the job.
Each company need the best one. Explore the company a bit before, get noldigment who they are, what they are doing, show interest, ask questions and show that you are having concentration and you put your self in company service.
Be you - like: you do not have problems, you are devoted to work, you have best nolidgment, you are best for the place and you know best, you are friend, you are person that each can come to you, but you want also to learn more, give more and exchange your nolidgmente with other colleagues and workers in the company. You work as the boss tells you and always first ask, negotiate, give your opinion and then make decision what is best on.
What the writer wants to say - be idiot and full, and play monkey for those who need to give you crackers to eat.
You will successes - believe me, and it is not problem to have the job but how to keep it. There you have to manage only yourselves.
This is my opinion and help to you.
Best wishes!

1. if you had no phone interview, being called in a company for interview after sending your CV means that they have seen your profile and want 2 things:
a. to be sure that you have the skills you pretend to have
b. to be sure you can fit in the team/company

2. if you had a phone interview and you are called for a second interview, that means that they find your skills already ok but now want to see if you can fit in the team/company, that's what it is all about.

So an advice: you will never have a second chance to make a first impression.

I had along time ago a document on questions a person in an interview can ask to the company to show that one has interests in working for the company, I will have to search it but I found it at that time on the TechRepublic.com website, I don't know if they still have it.

Post your email address so that I could send it to you if I find it.

D.

Found it and some others:

13_interview_questions.pdf
13_useless_questions.pdf
checklist_verifying_skills.pdf
interview_mistakes.pdf
job_candidate_signs.pdf
job_hunter_questions.pdf

Just post your email adress and I will send them to you.

D.

@D!
Hey D, what means:
1. Interview with agent that represent the company - personally.
2. Interview over phone with company - personally.
3. Personal interview in company 1-st date - cancelled from me!
4. Company ask immediate second interview...
They want me so bad?

I don't think they want you *that* bad:

1. Interview with agent that represent the company - personally., I don't think agent personally represents the company, they work for themselves but tell you that it is for the company because they will in fact recommand you to the company. What they do is
a. they get the request from the company
b. they search the database and check for potential candidates
c. they contact the potential candidates and do an interview just to check if the candidates really fit in the job description
d1. if not, the candidate is forgotten
d2. if yes, the candidate is recommanded to the company
e. the company takes it from there and if the candidate is hired, the agent get money from the company for "recommanding" the candidate, I know that because I got money more than once from agents to which I recommanded people :-) I was kinda agent for the agents and I still do it, it brings me 500 euros per placed candidate so I think the agent got really more.

2. Interview over phone with company - personally., that's where my point e. starts and you then follow the normal process.

D.

@NoBody: Could you please send the documents, you mentioned above, to me as well at rohit_de@web.de
Thanks!

@Vicky

sent.

D.

me to need it fiveohg@yahoo.de

Hi Nobody,

Many thx to you.
Here is the email address that you can send the docs to: jordan.j@email.cz

N.B: I have made already a phone interview of about 30 min with the CTO of the company.Even,he asked me to send him some codes I have written becoz he would like to see the quality of my coding style.It´s almost one month later that I have got an invitation that they want to see me personally.
That is basically the process on which I am now with the company.

Looking forward to receive them.
Jordan

@DuPAc, Jordan

Sent. Glad to be of any help. I'm here for helping, aren't we all.

D.

Thx NoBody...

Jordan

@nobody

Please send the info also at

peacy_2006 at yahoo dot com

Thanks
Peacy

@nobody

Please send the info also at

gd_fth@yahoo.com

Thanks in advance
Goodfaith

Check your emails.

D.

thanks D..

Thanks a lot D.

Have a nice day.
Peacy

@ nobody

please send the files to sejoka at googlemail dot com too.

thank you

sejo

@nobody

I have different opinion about your statements

1. if you had no phone interview, being called in a company for interview after sending your CV means that they have seen your profile and want 2 things:
a. to be sure that you have the skills you pretend to have
b. to be sure you can fit in the team/company

If you are called directly means, implicitly they are interested in your skills and want to know whether you really possess those skills you specified in your resume


2. if you had a phone interview and you are called for a second interview, that means that they find your skills already ok but now want to see if you can fit in the team/company, that's what it is all about.

First phone interview means they did not completely understand what was written in your resume so it is the clarification phase. If you succeed then you go for personal interview.

Note this might also affect due to the hectic schedule the manager's have, the place you live etc etc..

For a face to face interview you need to prepare well in advance the things you have listed in you resume so it is more or like a elaborated phase8bit detailed). In Germany dress code is not important unless you are working for sales department. If possible, carry a few power point slides with you and make introduce yourself briefly.

many many more you have to take care and I think some of them are already being listed here by other members.

good luck!

from my point of view: honest, be yourself (not overacting) and don't lie and bluffing.

good luck!

@babloo

I'm talking about my personal experience, not on having made interviews (although I did a lot of them) but because have been on the other side of the table more than once (I conducted personnally all the interviews of the company I build back in 2003 in the UK) so I really know what I'm talking about.

If you want to be sure of that, go to your actual company and ask those who conducted your interview what they were looking for by conducting the face to face interview you had (if you had a phone interview before that) and you'll see.

D.

@Sejoka

check your email.

D.

@Detlef @NoBody

How about opening an upload section for T7?

Thank you nobody for the files.

Sejoka

@Akshay

thought of asking it but find it too risky. But I'm already thinking about something.

D.

Hi all,

@nobody / anybody

can you also please send me these files

13_interview_questions.pdf
13_useless_questions.pdf
checklist_verifying_skills.pdf
interview_mistakes.pdf
job_candidate_signs.pdf
job_hunter_questions.pdf

My email id is dcmdass@googlemail.com

Thanks in advance

Have a nice day

Hello,
Could anyone send me too those files to my pinnacleuse@yahoo.com
Thanks in advance

regards,
Kodam

@matrix & kodam2

check your emails.

D.

@nagananda

done.

D.

Hi All,
All those experienced with phone interviews, what is the typical time frame needed for the companies to make a decision regarding potential candidature after the phone interview?

Dear D,
Could you also send the stuff to
blueshari@30gigs.com
Thanks,

Cheers!!!

blueshari asks:
All those experienced with phone interviews, what is the typical time frame needed for the companies to make a decision regarding potential candidature after the phone interview?

This is totally dependent upon the load of the HR people/headhunter company.

I had 2 phone interviews. Both interviews were together with HR of the company (some companies do it thru headhunter company).

First phone interview was 1,5 months later, after I had applied for the position. The interviewer was just one HR person.

Second phone interview was ca. 1 months later, after the first phone interview. The interviewers were one HR person and 2 people from the department where the position was.

After the 2nd phone interview, they invited me to Germany for personal interview. It lasted ca. 1 month for the company to decide for the personal interview.

After the personal interview, 1 month later I was rejected.

After the rejection, 1 month later again, I was offered the position again.

Please note that this is a little an exceptional case, but the intervals are like that.

After the phone interview, you are invited to Germany for personal interview. After the personal interview in general they should say you YES/NO in 4-6 weeks.

Klenze17.

Thanks Klenze for the reply. Looks pretty long time to make a decision. I directly had 1 phone interview
with the department guys (no HR, surprisingly). It was 'sofort' requirement, hence waiting eagerly for
the response.

Cheers!!!

blueshari wrote:
Looks pretty long time to make a decision.

Yes. It took totally 10 months for me to get the position I am working now. From the time point when I applied for the position till the time point when I started to work!

Actually there are a lot stuff more I did not mention. Personal interview was problematic (visa formalities and rescheduled because of some boundary conditions). After everything finished, the GC process was problematic (they did not know how to apply for it).

In general, the bigger the employer is, the more complicated is the process (more human interference) and hence the more patient you have to be.

Don't expect the people to whom you are talking to are experienced. HR people can be underqualified, less experienced, or do not might have dealt with formalities for foreigns qualified like you.

I am giving you an idea what you can meet. Be prepared to experience corner cases (they might forget some things, they might register some things wrong etc). Always be paranoid. Nobody is perfect!

I directly had 1 phone interview with the department guys (no HR, surprisingly). It was 'sofort' requirement, hence waiting eagerly for
the response.

Very good. The technical department has the last word. If you convinced them, everything else is just a toy (up to the work permit).

I wish you good luck and patience! Germans are patient people, and so do you have to behave, too.

Klenze17...

blueshari wrote:
>I directly had 1 phone interview with the >department guys (no HR, surprisingly). It was >'sofort' requirement, hence waiting eagerly for
>the response.

I suggest you to be patient.They will contact you if they want to see you.
In my case,I have had the phone interview with the CTO of the company.I was answering technical questions on phone.After 1 month,they sent me an invitation for the personal interview which I will do during next week.
Don´t forget that you are not the only one they are calling.They use to call many people for phone interview.Therefore,be patient.
Cheers
Jordan

@Klenze
Thanks for the suggestions and wishes.

@Jordan
Good Luck for the next week and hope you would keep us posted with the result and questions. By the way, if you have some interview preparation stuff, do pass it to:

blueshari@30gigs.com

My suggestion for your earlier question would be to stick to what you have said in phone interview with confidence. Prepare and practice well again for the
beautiful question "Tell me about yourself". Secondly prepare well your project experiences, role and contributions.
Finally be prepared to negotiate salary accordingly.

Cheers !!!

Hi All,

Is it legal to claim the travel expenses for going to a personal interview?

I am living in Hamburg and the company is in south.

Cheers,
Jordan

@jordan

it's not legal, it's the will of the company so you have to ask them before hands if they will cover them or not. If yes, fine; if no, in case you are registered as jobseeker, the Arbeitsamt will cover these expenses, in case you are not, you can declare these expenses in your next tax declaration.

D.

Hi all,

Nobody it was informative your content.

Can i know how to register as jobseeker in arbietsamt.

My wife came here in spouse visa. Can she register as unemployed. As of now she is applying for jobs.

being registered as jobseeker it might help getting some contact from arbietamt.


Regards
pac

It's compulsory for a company to pay the travel cost for an interview. If the employer does not want to repay the travel cost, he must explicitely state that in the interview letter (E-mail/letter).

Once, a friend of mine went to an interview. The company did not say anything about repay of the travel cost. The next day of the interview, my friend asked the company to pay for the cost. The company replied that as it is a small company, it can not repay the travel cost. Then I asked my friend to serach SGB for the real law. He found that "A COMPANY MUST PAY INTERVIEW COST IF NOT OTHERWISE STATED".[I don't have a specific link at my hand]. With this law, he approached the company to pay his money back. Then the company has said sorry for declining his previous request and repaid the money.

So if the company does not say anything about the travel cost, one needs not ask for it beforehand. In Germany, generally the companies do not make troubles for repaying interview travel cost.

I think you can have a look at our favourite GOOGLE for the appropriate law on this!

Does this link say enough for this issue:

http://www.netzeitung.de/wirtschaft/ratgeber/299505.html

Regards,

MK

Hi,
I have been searching for a job for the past three months.I have an accepted workpermit.Last week I had my first telephonic interview, for which I was quite nervous.I`m yet to hear from them,can anyone give me tips how to conduct yourself in a telephonic and face-to-face interview?
Tricky questions like "tell me about urself" and "strengths and weakness". How should one handle them?

Thanks,
helpwithtrust

@ Nobody,

kindly send me the interview docs too on
moseyk at yahoo dot com

assanti saana

Thanks

@myname

sent, and sorry for the delay, was on holidays and wanted to stay out of the internet for a week.

D.

@Detlef
@NoBody

I hate repeating it, but isn't time to consider an upload/download section?

One could maybe try out this site:

http://www.yousendit.com/

Its really very easy.

@ Nobody
I just came across this topic and cathes my interest, kindly send me the interview documents as well on miy at freenet dot de..

Many thanks,
bellie

Hello Nobody

Could you please send me the interview documents to my below email id.

sanju_tom@hotmail.com

Many Thanks.

Hi Nobody

Could you please mail me the interview documents to my email : Sudeep.Pondala@gmail.com

Regards,

Sudeep