Some tips for reference librarian interviews
1. Make sure you research possible questions you might get asked
2. Go over those questions with friends
3. Don't have a script in front of you, but just try and play it naturally and try your best to 'be cool.' (I dislike the use of the word 'cool' but it really sums up my point here).
4. Remember steps 1-3 when your phone interview begins
5. Don't give short, and sometimes meaningless, answers to questions.
#5 is particularly important as you might experience a kind of 'out of brain' feeling during an interview which, might, cause you to sound dis-interested and like an overall idiot.
Also, if you have a list of questions that you want to ask it might be a good idea to have those in front of you. If you neglect to do this (and try to play it by ear) you might end up asking questions that have little or no relevance to the position you are applying for, in which case you will sound stupid, and again dis-interested. Do not do this.
This post has no basis from my own life and has nothing to do with trying to get a job that I really wanted and feel as though I totally blew the phone interview.
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Self-report is notoriously unreliable. On the bright side, you've identified two things: 1) good points to consider when interviewing, and 2) how extraordinarily difficult it is to be rational, logical, and obedient to advised behavior when in stressful situations. Chances are good that the theoretical interview wasn't as much of a train wreck as your write-up suggests.
(If you're in need of distraction, you should read the mega-threads on the New Librarian listserv. They're fantastic.)
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