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Ace Your Babson Interview: 5 Tips

To ace an interview at Babson, one should: 1) Research Babson to understand its vision and ensure interest in contributing to its goals. Be prepared to explain why Babson is of interest. 2) Thoroughly review the job description and have concrete examples of experience and skills relevant to each responsibility. 3) Anticipate common questions and practice answers, having complete responses prepared for strengths, weaknesses, and other likely topics. 4) Be ready to ask informed questions about the role and organization at the conclusion of the interview. 5) Approach the interview with the mindset of a consultant, focusing on collaboration rather than judgment, to feel more confident and less nervous.

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Ace Your Babson Interview: 5 Tips

To ace an interview at Babson, one should: 1) Research Babson to understand its vision and ensure interest in contributing to its goals. Be prepared to explain why Babson is of interest. 2) Thoroughly review the job description and have concrete examples of experience and skills relevant to each responsibility. 3) Anticipate common questions and practice answers, having complete responses prepared for strengths, weaknesses, and other likely topics. 4) Be ready to ask informed questions about the role and organization at the conclusion of the interview. 5) Approach the interview with the mindset of a consultant, focusing on collaboration rather than judgment, to feel more confident and less nervous.

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5 Ways To Ace Your Interview At Babson

Find out who we are and what we do


Read about us. Know what we do, and why we think it’s so important. If you get offered this position, you will be
expected to contribute to us achieving our vision, so make sure it’s something you’re interested in doing. It will also
help you tailor how you speak about your experience and qualifications. You’re likely to be asked “Why Babson,
why now?” so be ready!

Be very familiar with the job description


Spend some time going through the job posting line by line and thinking about how your experience and skills
equip you to excel at the job. In particular, for each responsibility or qualification listed, try to come up with
concrete examples from your past that you can point to as supporting evidence that you’d be great at the job —
such as times that you faced similar challenges and how you tackled them, and particular successes you’ve had
that you can tie back to what it will take to succeed in this role.

Have your answers and stories ready


It’s likely you’ll be asked questions like: “Why are you thinking about leaving your current job?” and “What are your
strengths and weaknesses?” Once you have your list of the questions you think you’ll be asked, figure out how
you’ll answer each of them – and not just a vague idea or some bullet points you want to hit, but your complete
answer to each; and then practice saying them out loud. This is especially true if you dread having a particular
topic arise in the interview (for example, a past firing or even what salary they’re seeking). Doing this kind of
reflection and practice ahead of time should make a significant difference in how polished and confident you
appear.

Be prepared to ask us questions


Toward the end of the interview, your interviewer will probably ask what questions you have. While it’s smart to
think about how your questions might reflect on you, this is your time to get the information you need to figure out if
this is a job you want and would be good at. So think about what you really want to know when you imagine going
to work at Babson and in this job every day. Lastly, it’s okay to write your questions down and bring them with you,
so don’t worry about memorizing them.

Get yourself into the right state of mind.


If you get nervous before interviews, remember we wouldn’t be interviewing you if you weren't at least plausible for
the job. It can help to approach the interview as if you were a consultant. If you were meeting with a prospective
client, you’d explain your expertise, learn about the work that needs to be done, and talk about how you’d tackle it
— and you’d be talking as a potential business partner, not as a nervous job candidate waiting for the interviewer
to pass judgment on you. The more you can think of an interview like that — as a collaborative business meeting
where you and your interviewer are both trying to figure out if it makes sense to work together — the better your
interview will probably go (and the less nervous you’ll probably feel).

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