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The job interview is the final and most important part to get an esports job, and that comes with a set of requirements to test your level of professionalism and candidature. It can change depending on the career level or role, but generally these tips will help in landing the role:
- Conduct your research on the company: Be sure to do a bit of research on the company you will be having your interview with. After submitting your resumes and receiving a callback, the last you want to be is clueless about the company. This could be through the company’s website, social media pages and other related outlets that may provide chunks or bits of information about them.
- Remember what you said: Interviews can take place weeks or months after you have turned in your resume, so you would want to go through your resume and cover letter, and the portfolio you shared with them before showing up on the day of. This way you give yourself a chance to prove yourself on why you are the best candidate for the job and avoid conversations around your weaknesses — that is something interviewers sometimes do to uncover what weaknesses you may have.
- Prepare for the setting [face-to-face/virtual]: Traditionally you may be asked to be at the company where the interview will be conducted. Nowadays interviews are conducted online, but either way there are some steps to consider towards the preparation. For in-person interviews, you would want to make sure your phone is muted or on airplane mode. That way you do not have any notification bells disrupting the flow of the interview as that can also count for unprofessionalism. Similar to online interviews, you would have to mute push notification bells, avoiding distractions during the interview. Further for online interviews you would want to be in a quiet place [at home if that is where you will be doing the interview], with everyone understanding what you are doing at the moment and request for their cooperation in no noise making. Be sure to check for any background downloads as they could cause an Internet lag.
- Make a good first impression: It is okay to be nervous going into an interview, seeing that even though you may know or not know who is interviewing you, you may not know what demeanor you will be encountering. Try to be concise with your answers and ask for clarity on questions if you need a better understanding from the interviewer. Take your time to answer questions and match the demeanor – formal if formal, and casual if informal.
- Have questions for the interviewers: Usually interviewers close out the interviews with “Do you have any questions for me/us?”. You should answer “Yes”, because interviewers are also expecting to be asked questions. This way you get to control the way the interview should end and also find out more of the people you might be working with. Your questions should uncover important aspects to you surrounding benefits, work hours, and equipment that are used for the role. But if your questions have been answered already then it is not a problem.
- Follow up: Make for yourself notes on areas that impressed the interviewer and questions that you struggled to answer. These will help for your thank you letters and future interviews where you can work on your missteps.
Should you follow through with everything in here, best believe you will not only be leaving lasting impressions on interviewers, but you will also be granting yourself guarantees on esports jobs you are passionate about,
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Written by Jeffrey Osei-Agyeman
