Interviewing for a part time internship for Entry Level IT. I am a full time student Comp Sci major and wanna go into networking, servers, security, so hopefully this gets me my foot in the door. I am a terrible soft skills person and really nervous. My friends told me to print out my resume and transcripts, I will surely do that. Anybody got anything else to suggest?
Update: I got the position! I honestly didn’t even prepare for it, didn’t even know what the company did. The comment that talked about learning to search things up was right on, they asked me what I would do if I didn’t know how to do something. I answered “looking things up, asking others, and consult documentation.” The company seemed really cool and is structured pretty much like Valve Corp in that they wanted jacks of all trades and it was company owned.
Thank you for all the helpful advice. It definitely helped me out, and hopefully, it helps others out as well.
Hope I’m not too late. I just interviewed over a dozen people for an IT position so I have some experience as an employer
Be enthusiastic, be confident, if you don’t know the answer say ‘i don’t know but I’ll Google it later!’ because tech skills are not as important sometimes, it’s more like how will you get along with the team. Treat it as a fun opportunity to talk about your goals. Make sure you ask them questions, like what is the rest of the onboarding process like, how many more interviews, are the opportunities to grow in this position, is this a new position or am I filling in for someone who left? How many people on my team? And then end the interview by saying ‘i look forward to working with you’
Be confident, be enthusiastic. You got this
This is a pretty good answer. I tried to be as enthusiastic as possible, asked lots of questions and being curious. Also, I admitted to not knowing some stuff like when they asked about EDR, I admitted I forgot what the acronym stood for. One other person also said they forgot what it stood for as well.