In order to ensure the fairness and objectivity of the interview, the school usually draws lots to decide the interview place and interviewer, so that the examiner has only limited time to read the candidates' application materials (usually only about 10 minutes) before the interview officially begins. Accordingly, during the interview, the examiner will often read the application materials and ask corresponding interview questions about his own interests or the interview angle required by the school. There is an interesting phenomenon in Tsinghua MBA interview examination room. Among the three examiners in charge of the interview in the examination room, when one examiner asks a question, other examiners often look down at the candidates' application materials to find relevant information for the following interview questions, which also reflects the key role played by the application materials in the interview and the basic role played by the interview questions.
In many interview examination rooms of MBA, the interviewer will ask questions to the candidates one by one in combination with the relevant information of the application and the content of the thesis.
2. Pay attention to in-depth investigation, in-depth investigation of the interviewee's managerial potential.
In the MBA interview, the interviewer pays attention to the in-depth investigation of the interview candidates, and puts forward the corresponding interview questions in combination with the investigation aspects and dimensions required by the interview (see below for details), and often asks some key interview questions in depth, such as asking the interview candidates to give specific examples or ask more in-depth questions.
Generally speaking, in the MBA interview, the interviewer should comprehensively and systematically understand the comprehensive quality and past management experience of the applicant's managers by asking in-depth questions, and make a more accurate and objective evaluation of the interviewed candidates, rather than simply asking some superficial questions.
As mentioned above, the interviewer will often ask some key questions and ask the interviewee to analyze and answer specific questions step by step, so it puts high demands on the applicant's actual management experience, ability to analyze important management issues and personal psychological endurance. Candidates who lack rich management practice or poor psychological endurance often lose points seriously in this key link of the interview. Therefore, it is necessary to improve their ability to adapt to the situation and express themselves by participating in systematic interview counseling before attending the interview.
3. The interview pace is fast, and candidates need to answer a lot of interview questions from different angles.
In the MBA interviews organized by famous business schools such as Tsinghua and Peking University, in order to improve the efficiency of interview assessment and ensure fairness, strict regulations are made on the interview time of each candidate. In the interview examination room, as soon as the interview time arrives, the interview secretary will immediately announce the end of the interview. Even if the examiner hasn't finished asking questions or the candidates haven't finished answering specific questions, the interview must be terminated immediately to ensure that every interviewee enjoys the same interview time.
During the interview, the examiner usually keeps throwing out relevant questions. If the candidates are inexperienced or not agile in management, they are likely to fall into the disadvantage of being at a loss, and it is difficult to give the examiner a satisfactory answer in a very limited time to fully reflect their advantages.
In view of the above characteristics of MBA interview, interview candidates are required to improve their interview ability from the following two aspects: (1) They can organize their own ideas and language in a very short time, answer the interviewer's interview questions in organized and logical language, and show high language organization ability. (2) In a relatively short period of time (generally no more than 2-3 minutes), clearly state your core ideas and related specific examples and figures to avoid wordiness and procrastination in language. Generally speaking, long-winded, irrelevant and difficult-to-grasp statements of opinions or facts will cause negative comments from the examiner in the interview.
4. The interview is stressful, and a lot of stress interview questions are often set in the interview.
Stress interview is an important part of the MBA interview, and it is also an important means for the examiner to deeply examine the comprehensive ability of the interviewer, especially the ability to withstand pressure.
As a well-known business school in China, Tsinghua, Peking University and other MBA programs. It is often necessary to construct a high-pressure interview situation and ask a certain number of stress interview questions. Accordingly, the interview candidates should be prepared to bear more pressure when they participate in the MBA interview between the two universities, and formulate corresponding coping strategies.
Candidates are often asked to give examples to illustrate their abilities.
In the MBA interview, when it comes to the candidate's ability (such as management and organization, teamwork, strategic planning, marketing, etc. ), candidates are often required to cite relevant examples to illustrate, rather than simply describing them in general language. The interviewer's requirements are mainly based on the following two considerations: first, accurately understand the interviewer's specific management ability and related environment through examples, and then make an objective evaluation of the applicant's comprehensive management quality; Secondly, I hope to understand the candidates' language organization ability and analytical ability through specific examples, and then examine the rigor of the interview candidates' thinking logic.