How to deal with the group face in the interview

I have participated in more than ten group meetings, large and small, and I very much hope to analyze the group meetings from my own perspective.

The answer is a little longer, and the following points will be discussed: 1. Introduction to the general types of group faces; 2. The role of group faces; 3. How to stand out?

Introduction of general types of group faces

As far as I know, as far as campus recruitment is concerned, the four major and fast-moving areas use the most groups. First, it can save time and human resources costs to a great extent, and second, it is because a person's performance on the surface of a group is roughly the same as that on the other side (after all, a group is as short as 20 minutes and as long as an hour and a half). It's still difficult for an interviewer to pretend to be non-me. But group faces can reflect a person's performance in a team (ranging from 6 people to 10 people) and your communication skills, adaptability, coordination and leadership skills. These functions of the group face are really not available unilaterally.

Because the goal of my own job search is to quickly eliminate MKT, all the group meetings I attended in mock were also aimed at quickly eliminating MKT. I hereby explain, but many reasons are still the same.

MKT has two categories:

1. Desert Island Survival category

It is called desert island survival class because this kind of group problem originally evolved from a classic "desert island survival" problem. The general topic refers to 10 people stranded on a desert island, such as 60-year-old doctors, 30-year-old pregnant women and 20-year-old college students. Now your team is killed on a desert island to save them, but the plane can only carry one person out of the desert island at a time. How do you arrange the rescue order of these people? I prefer to call this topic primary and secondary. Take this topic as an example, there are many factors to consider, such as their age, status, the cost of rescuing them, how much value they can create for society after being rescued, and how long their physical strength can last on a desert island. But how to prioritize these factors and make a reasonable ranking is the key to do this kind of group well. Similar topics include: Now that you are the head of a neighborhood committee, the citizens have put forward 10 suggestions. What roads should be repaired, greening should be done well, and aunt's square dance should be rectified. Now only three can be reported to government departments. Which three should you choose? These are all poorly done group problems! A slightly more commercial variant will include: a company wants to launch a product with certain characteristics. Now there are three candidates: Zhang Fei, Jia Baoyu and Tang Priest. Please choose one of these three candidates as the spokesperson of this product. This is what you should consider. When choosing a spokesperson, you should consider the characteristics of the spokesperson, the characteristics of the product, the image of the company, the characteristics of the spokesperson and the product, and the fit of the company. When these conditions cannot be met at the same time, how to prioritize and get an optimal answer.

2. Case interview

Case interview is basically a characteristic interview form with quick consultation. If you haven't participated in the consultation, don't say it, just say quick elimination. Take Unilever I met as an example. Unilever's case is 20 pages in English. Generally speaking, it is to design a new product listing scheme. First of all, I will give you a lot of raw material information, so that you can choose a raw material according to these (at this time, you should consider the company's image, product characteristics, transportation cost of raw materials, whether it is easy to preserve, nutritional value, consumer acceptance and so on. And find out whether it is a first-class problem or a second-class problem ~), and then make a sample on the spot with the materials provided on the spot. Finally, you need to make a plan for the listing of this product, predict the possible risks in the future and give solutions. Compared with the primary and secondary questions, the case interview requires the interviewer to have a strong sense of business and professional maturity. Otherwise, you must be crazy to see 20 pages of material. At this time, you still need to grasp the priorities. As an MKTer, what you should consider, what you can ignore, what you must read repeatedly and what you can skim, so I won't go into details here. Case interview is really to examine a person's comprehensive ability in a relatively real business environment, and every time I finish a case, I feel tired and enjoy it.

3. Others

There are many others. For example, Johnson once asked interviewers to play cards together. Everyone has five cards in his hand, and each card has different scattered information. Everyone can't see each other's cards, so they can only complete these incomplete information through communication, and finally do a reasoning problem. Ziyi's summer intern asked the interviewer to build blocks together this year. It turns out that Ferriero also played this; Last year, the recruitment questions of the four major universities were debated twice, and the theme was about UGG, which I forgot specifically.

Wait a minute, never change!

Second, the role of groups.

The following group roles are divided by class, not by the number of people. That is to say, in some groups, one person may assume several types of roles, or some types of roles may not be assumed at all.

1. Leader

As the name implies, leaders need to grasp the progress of the whole team in the whole process of group meetings.

Common lines: "In these 20 minutes, we should spend X minutes discussing X, then X minutes discussing X, and finally set aside two minutes to prepare our pre." "I think the first problem we have to solve is-""Let's stop arguing. I don't think this problem should be our concern now. Our first question is to find out first-"

2. Time Keeper

Timekeepers should not only work hard on timing, but also grasp the whole process of discussion with leaders. If you find that you have been entangled in a certain detail for too long, the time keeper will decisively say, "If this continues, we will be overtime. Let's discuss the next question quickly. " The keeper of time seems simple, but many times it is easy to forget to look at the time when the discussion is in full swing, which is terrible.

3. Partners

Basically, most interviewers assume the role of collaborators in the interview. Let me tell you the two most luminous. One is someone who can always put forward very creative and constructive ideas. Although he may have no idea what the whole framework is about, he doesn't understand the whole discussion process. It was here that he suddenly had a good idea from generate and his thinking was very active. This kind of person is also very much needed by the team. Another is that although there are not many words, people who can reverse the direction of the team and ask key questions at critical moments have clear ideas and are not affected by everyone's discussion, which is easy to impress the interviewer. That's what I said from beginning to end, but it's not the point. Obviously to get a chance to speak. Basically, it will leave the impression of showstopper. Do not do such a thing.

Collaborator usually has a person as the recorder.

4. Presenter

In my opinion, this is a icing on the cake. Generally borne by the leader, because other partners will certainly not grasp the results of the whole discussion like the leader, and it is also possible that the recorder will do the preliminary work. The icing on the cake is because if you do well in the previous performance and pre, you can basically pass the test normally. If you want to save your image in the interviewer's mind by doing pre at last, I suggest you leave this opportunity to students who need it more.

Third, how to stand out

I really feel that writing only four words of advice here is very suitable for me. It's that simple. You are a very creative person, you have to build a structure, or you are a fool, and your English is not good. If you want to be a presenter, you will not be eliminated. Send five more words because the most attractive thing about "teammates" is that you never know whether you meet a teammate of God or a teammate of a pig. Just like playing cards, a card is a card, but when you play cards, there will be different combinations, which is very interesting. The same person, facing different teammates, will present a completely different state. For a group, even if there is another person, the situation of the whole group will be different, full of mystery and excitement. Learn to find your constant position in changing situations. Good Xuan = =.

I feel a little crooked after writing. I hope this analysis can help you understand what kind of process campus recruitment is. Seeing this, I believe everyone can understand the purpose of some companies screening interviewers through group meetings. Through group meetings, abstract abilities such as leadership, coordination, time management, adaptation and communication have become concrete.

That's all. Welcome like-minded job seekers to talk to me!