Interviews part 1

This week at university we were all given the chance to take part in a mock interview. however these interviews were a surprise so that no one had time to prepare for the interview by looking up what questions they could be asked or preparing by thinking up answers before hand to specific questions. The company that we were given in the mock interviews was mind candy, the company that created moshi monsters.

Mind candy are based in shoreditch and is a major player in the silicon roundabout community. their main brand is moshi monsters which is one of the worlds fastest growing games online for kids with over 75 million sign-ups and counting. Although moshi monsters is a game they also focus on distributing music, mobile, videos, toys, films, cartoons, books and many others

This company to me was quite hard because i know pretty much next to nothing with the moshi monsters franchise. I've heard of it before but have not done any research or looked into the game myself. Although after being asked about different questions that i could come into when i go for an interview myself i now know how to prepare and to do background research into companies. I will use this to my advantage when we plan on having interviews in the future.

job role requirements

• Ambitious
• Creative
• Quirky edge 
• Positive attitude
• driving passion

How we presented ourselves

After the mock interviews we got together and discussed how well we presented ourselves in these situations, here is a list of some of the ways people presented themselves.

• passionate
• confident
• calm
• eye contact was good
• friendly
• assertive
• nervous
• quiet
• eye contact was bad
• talked quickly
• froze
• often repeated

people generally had good all round knowledge of the game industry itself but people lacked when it came to information about the companies and their products, this was probably because the interview was quite spontaneous therefore not giving people the chance to research the company. A lot of peoples expectation for salary was also extremely high or other people just generalized by saying a "fair" amount which isn't really that good an answer. 

From my interview i think i handled the questions asked at me quite well and i'm quite proud of my answers as they were fast and didn't require too much thinking time. although i was bad at the company questions that is something that i know i will be able to prepare for in the future.