Landing and Acing an Engineering Job Interview

There are always plenty of engineers currently looking for work on LinkedIn. They spend hours searching through the site with no result to show for their efforts. The reason for this, most times, is that they are not using LinkedIn effectively or they are not very familiar with the site and how it works. This chapter presents some specific strategies for leveraging this powerful social media networking tool. The component of LinkedIn that will provide the best chance at landing a job interview is the LinkedIn Groups functionality. The chapter provides some hints for properly leveraging the contacts within a LinkedIn Group. It then offers a few insights to interesting questions or items posed at interviews. The most important thing to remember when facing those types of questions, objections, and concerns is to always be honest. Finally, the chapter shares some guidelines with respect to interview etiquette and attire.