- So let's get started
with understanding the interview process,
what that really means.
Well, when you apply for a job,
you get into this pool of candidates,
and the recruiter will have to do initial selection.
Now, what I'm telling here is based on my experience.
Different companies may operate a little bit different.
This is my experience based on some of the common practice
that I've seen in the market.
So the initial selection is something very important,
because sometimes there are so many candidates
for opposition that that initial selection is done
just by reviewing the resume.
And the recruiter in partnership with the hire manager
will go through the resume and briefly say,
I would like to talk to this person.
Oh, I think that this candidate here has potential.
Let me talk.
So the resume, that initial impression is very important.
That's how you pass through that initial triage
just to be selected for the beginning of the interview.
Now, keep in mind that this first triage is mainly
done via resume for the most part, right?
Unless the company has some sort of a referral process where
employees of the company can referral someone.
And that sometimes is a good thing because it skips,
it can skip this initial triage that is done
through the recruiters.
So always be mindful.
If you have a friend that works in a company
and there is a referral process in that company,
many times going through the referral is a good way
to skip this initial phase.
That's just a little advantage because you still
have to do a lot of work.
Once the selection is done,
the recruiter may reach out to the candidates
because let's say a hire manager
receive 30 resumes for one position, and with the recruiter
they review and they nail to 10 resumes.
So just by looking at the resume,
they eliminate already 20.
So out of those 10, now the hire manager may say
to the recruit, okay, go ahead, perform this initial contact
and try to ask the following question, just basic questions
to see if really this candidate is a good fit.
So the recruiters is gonna do that initial call, take notes,
and send it back to the hiring manager.
And at that point, the hiring manager might say,
okay, out of those 10 I would like to put these 5
to the interview loop.
So that's when you're gonna have a interview agreement
about what the next steps are.
You're gonna provide some availability based
on your schedule, and the recruiter might give you
some final considerations as well
about how to prepare or what's next for you.
So that's just the beginning of the process.