Google Recruiter Mock Interview
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Question 7 of 30
As a Recruiter for Google, you'll be asked to fill roles you may be unfamiliar with. How do you approach learning complex titles and terminology for positions that are new to you?
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
The interviewer wants evidence that you are a resourceful individual who can recruit for a vast range of open roles across numerous departments. The goal of your response is to prove to the interviewer that you have the tenacity and resourcefulness, along with the research chops necessary to learn about job functions that may be unfamiliar to you.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
Google has dozens of teams listed on its careers page, all with a range of open job opportunities. It can be a challenge to keep up with all industry terminology, which is why a strong recruitment professional will have a genuine appreciation for gathering research and obtaining new knowledge.
Some of your best research resources will include Google search, industry-specific forums, job-specific podcasts, and researching the job descriptions posted by competing companies with similar job openings. You might even want to go online and find people with job titles that align with the one you're looking to build a talent pipeline for. You can find similar people on LinkedIn and take note of their education, career progression, and accountabilities.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
As a Google Recruiter, you will learn about jobs and skillsets that you may not have even known existed! Show the interviewers that you have an attitude of receptiveness and you are ready to learn. Discuss how you approach learning industry terminology for roles that are new to you.
If you have a story of a specific time you encountered this situation, take the opportunity to provide a real-life example of when you filled the knowledge gap and overcame the challenge.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"In my current recruitment role with Company XYZ, we hire many professionals for our growing core engineering team. I am often asked to start building a talent pipeline for a job title that is new to me. For instance, last month, one of the department managers asked me to source a Games Ecosystems Solutions Engineer. I took the job details, conducted research, and read a few tech-related forums online. It turned out that this was a title that essentially described a Full Stack Engineer. I began by researching competing companies with large Full Stack Engineering teams. Then, I began my talent reach-outs from that starting point. If hired as a Google Recruiter, I will apply this same desire to learn and understand. If I am unsure of a particular job function or credential, I will analyze and explore until I fully understand the exact skills I need to uncover in my search."
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