By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
They aren’t necessarily better. That really depends on the interviewers. However, employers embrace them for good reasons and so should job hunters.
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I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I coach people. I try and help you perform better in the workplace by helping with the job search, hiring more effectively, managing and leading, performing better at work.
This is a job search video where someone’s asked, why are multi person panel interviews better than one on one? Now, the assumption is that the people can know how to interview. That’s a big assumption. So, that’s true of panel interviews.
It’s true in one on one interviews. You have to work with the assumption that they are who they are. And thus, neither is necessarily good.
So, one isn’t necessarily better than the other because of the format. It’s because of the people that are there. Now, why do firms use it? Why do some people like them? Firms use them for the simple reason that they’re more efficient.
Let’s say you have four people on the panel, five people on the panel, and you would have had to meet individually with five people. The five people will be together with you for approximately an hour. If you were to do them back to back, that’s two and a half hours.
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From an employer’s perspective, that’s great. They’ve saved an hour and a half. In addition, from the standpoint of the interviewers, there’s a certain degree of collaboration that goes on in the interview based upon what they hear in the way of answers.
One person or another is going to build on that and dive in deeper to understand more because they may not have asked that question if they were in one on one, but in the group setting, they’ve heard it. Now, they’re going to follow through. From your standpoint, it’s not two and a half hours.
Often, the two and a half hours is split up on multiple occasions, so that you’re coming back multiple times. It’s going on over the course of weeks, just for that phase of it where they’re evaluating you. Because remember, it’s HR, the first interview, by phone, then you do the panel, and then you come back one more time or more to meet the team, to meet with your future employer.
So, it’s streamlining, in some way. Hope you found this helpful. I’m Jeff Altman.
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