CocaCola44 wrote:
So I'm a bit stressed toward my interview next week, could anyone who already had his share a bit? Couldn't find much advice regarding deferred admission interview..
Cheers and good luck!!!
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Congratulations on your MIT interview! Given the pandemic, I’m assuming a skype interview with an AdCom member or student may occur instead if there isn’t an available alum to interview you nearby. Skype interviews can be tricky, especially if you aren’t used to interviewing on camera.
You should practice as much as possible before a potential Skype interview. Ideally, you should do a mock interview with a willing MBA alum, who can simulate the interview as authentically as possible on Skype. The MIT interviews are super-focused on *fit,* so you should make sure that the interviewer focuses on questions about leadership, collaboration, and WHY MIT as much as possible in his/her questioning. Do a video recording of the interview so you can play it back and catch your mistakes (even things like a messy background, bad/unflattering angle, reflective glasses, etc.). Two sessions like this would probably be good, so that you have one session to catch the low-hanging fruit and then another to catch higher-order mistakes.
B-school interviews are very different than job interviews. It’s highly likely that you’ll be interviewed by somebody who does not share your professional background, so you’ll want to talk to your leadership experience in round, general terms without getting too in-the-weeds on technical stuff (and for sure you don’t want to use a lot of industry-specific jargon or acronyms). If practicing the STAR interview method with an MBA consultant who collects prior interview questions from each school may be helpful, feel free to reach out to us:
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