💡Tips to make UX Remote Interview more Productive😇
This article speaks about some of the best practices that can be considered by both interviewer & Interviewee to ensure parties involved are well-scoped about the session agendas thereby making the conversation fruitful.
It's a short one — give it a read & do post your thoughts 🙂
✍🏽 Penning my UX Interview Experience being an Interviewer
Conducting interviews remotely has become challenging, where neither Hard skills nor Soft skills seem to be sufficient to ensure Healthy Conversation. with time & learnings, I got to realize that it also needed an exhibition of emotional skills, which are Empathy & Patience.
Having said that, to make the discussion more Informed & Productive, it’s important that people from both ends are well aware of the action Items/talk points for the session.
💡 Points to remember, If you are an Interviewer
👉 From the Interviewer’s side, Areas of focus w.r.t a Case study can be shared in advance with the Invite to make the Interviewee well Informed.
The area of Focus goes as follows:
- What was the problem you were solving
- What was your Role in the presented Case study
- Why did you follow so & so Process/Approach.
- How did you get to the Solution. Feel free to share your Iterations & your journey towards getting to the solution
- What are the Impacts
Its important to understand that, Some times less is more !!!
💡Points to remember, If you are an Interviewee/Candidate
Think before you share your Case study, if you are going to share a Casestudy about research where your team had 15 other researchers & you are one among them, will the interviewer be able to differentiate & understand your contribution/Skillset.
👉 From the Candidate’s Side, do ensure you share the right case study that can best represent your skillset & also ensure your talk points align with the interviewer’s Areas of Focus.
- Ensure Time management is taken into account. Always try to complete your presentation within the given time span.
- Ensure you keep your presentation conversational & not a Monologue.
- Ensure you present a portfolio that is implemented in Real-time & your role for the given project is preferably an Individual Contributor role (preferably) or working with a team of designers less than 3. So that it can help the Interviewer to understand your skills better. .
- Every company/Hiring manager prefers Attitude over Aptitude. So be nice, don't be a Jerk.
✌️The outcome of Practice Proposed
- You can ensure that the goals for the session are clear & aligned
- Improved desired Results out from the session
👍 Do give a thought
Making things productive starts from being proactive in retrospecting our practices, understanding what works, what doesn’t work & what needs to be improved. Continuous evaluation would always lead you to make things Better, more Effective & Efficient.
Hope this article Induces you to give a thought to your current Interviewing Process with a scope to make things better & Productive. Do feel free to share your thoughts in the comments (if any).
Would love to discuss the same. until next time 👋
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