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Originally Posted by sergioCorral842
I was interviewed in the Arizona Regional and I will share what I was asked in the interview:
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3. Finally, know your essay. When I entered the room, they had my essay right in front of them with notes written on it. Most of the questions asked to me revolved around my essay with the occasional "How do you spread FIRST?" kind of question.
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Just so you know, this situation is exactly how it will be when you go for a real job interview. Managers will sift through a stack of resumes, discarding the ones that obviously don't fit the bill. They will usually do phone interviews with maybe half a dozen candidates to narrow the choices down to 2 or 3. Then they will pay your travel expenses to come to a face to face interview. This usually takes about 1/2 a day. Usually you will be interviewed by a couple people in the morning, then go out to lunch with some potential coworkers, then talk to some more after lunch. There will usually be a facility tour in there somewhere.
All of these people will have seen your resume, and will be asking you questions about it. Often, how you present yourself is more important than the actual answers you give to the questions. Also very important are the questions you ask about the company during the tour, and during your interviews. You don't just want to give answers, you want to engage the interviewer in a conversation.
Same thing applies to your Dean's List interview. When the judges are asking you questions, they are trying to get to know you and see if who you are in person matches up with how your mentors have presented you on paper. Approach the interview as an opportunity to make a couple new friends. Be respectful, but friendly, like you would be to members of the general public asking you the same sorts of questions at a Demo. Think of the interview as a demo, except instead of talking about FIRST, you are talking about yourself. But since you are a dedicated FIRST'er (otherwise you wouldn't be nominated by your mentors) you'll end up talking about FIRST anyway.