InterviewThe stages of an interview, and the guide for each
Before. Most of the result is decided here. How to prepare gives a plan for the three days before: understand the job, understand the employer, prepare answers, practise aloud, sort out the practical details. Students facing campus drives should read campus placement, which explains each round and what it tests, and group discussion if their companies hold one.
The method. One technique is worth learning properly: the STAR method for questions that ask for an example from your past. With five prepared stories you can answer most of them.
The day. Dress, documents and the day covers what to wear and carry and how to conduct yourself from the gate to the door. If the round is remote, phone and video interviews covers the set-up and what to do when the connection fails.
After. After the interview has the thank-you message, the follow-up, and replies to an offer or a rejection, ready to copy. Common mistakes gathers the errors from every stage into one list to read the night before.
How to use them with the question pages
The guides tell you how to prepare and behave; the common questions and questions by job give you the material to prepare. A sensible order for someone with a week: read how to prepare; work through the common questions, writing your own notes; read the STAR method and write five stories; go through the page for your job; then spend the last two days on the practice tool, speaking aloud.
A word on nerves
Every guide here assumes you will be nervous, because everyone is. Preparation does not remove nerves; it gives them less to feed on. A candidate who knows the first sentence of their main answers, has their papers in order and arrives early has already dealt with most of what can go wrong.
Model answers are examples. They show the shape of a good answer, reviewed in November 2026. Use your own facts: an answer copied word for word will not survive a follow-up question. Employers differ, and nothing here promises selection. Names in the examples are invented.