Interviews: shine during your postdoc or PhD student interview.

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Interviews can decide whether you land the postdoc/PhD position of your dreams. Here are 4 general points to consider, and 6 interview common questions to expect and how to answer them! #phd #phdlife #postdoc #jobinterview #gradschool #academia #academicsuccess #academic #academicskills #interviewtips #interviewquestions #interview
0:00 Interviews can be decisive in hiring decisions
1:10 Four general points to consider
4:13 Six common interview questions and how to answer them
10:50 Wrap-up
Matthias Rillig, professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin, chats about life in academia.
Interested in our lab? visit rilliglab.org or follow us on twitter @mrillig.
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@mrillig 2 года назад

If you have any great interview questions that you found useful or interesting, please share them in the comments. I'd love to hear about some excellent questions to ask....

@starryabs 4 месяца назад

You rock Dr. Rillig, I just secured a position! I watched your postdoc videos and applied your advice to my application and interview process!

@mrillig 4 месяца назад

That's wonderful! Glad to hear it, and congratulations!!!!

@DrWainkwa 2 года назад

Again thank you so much for sharing this one. Your videos are always very informative. This is video is the best gift for any fresh PhD graduating student preparing to enroll into the job market.

@mrillig 2 года назад

Thank you so much! Always glad to hear you like the videos!

@mentalandemotionalhealthy365 10 дней назад

Great insight 🎉❤

@mrillig 10 дней назад

thanks!

@idowuatoloye7261 Год назад

Thank you for your educative videos. I am happy to share that one of my mentees found your videos helpful and was able to secure a Ph.D. position. Thanks.

@mrillig Год назад

That's wonderful! thanks for writing.... :)

@setarehkompanian7847 2 года назад

Dear Professor, thank you so much for your informative video... you pointed out some details I never thought about.. I have a Ph.D. interview in 2 weeks and I am pretty sure I would use all of your advicess. Thanks again!

@mrillig 2 года назад

Thanks for watching, and I'm glad you found it useful. Good luck with your interview! :)

@YUZhuoyuan 9 месяцев назад

Dear prof, thanks for your advice in this video, it will absolutely be a great help for me!

@mrillig 9 месяцев назад

That's great; good luck with your next interview.

@beccaapak0228 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much for all of the tips. It will greatly help me to prepare for the postdoc position interview!

@mrillig 4 месяца назад

Thanks, and good luck with your interviews!

@MrUlamaca 10 месяцев назад

Really appreciated for your. Many constructive and systematic advice are there. I am sure it would be very helpful for my future application

@mrillig 10 месяцев назад

Great! thanks for writing, and good luck with your future applications.

@nargesdamavandi5654 Год назад

Great video! Thank you so much 🌹

@mrillig Год назад

Thank you!

@JabirKhan-le7xq Год назад

Thank you so much, sir... this is an excellent video.

@mrillig Год назад

Thank you!!

@wz_hou2130 11 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for sharing! I have benefited greatly from the information. feels like it was tailor-made for me. Once again, thank you! I hope my postdoc job interview next week goes smoothly. ; )

@mrillig 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! And good luck with your interview.

@eliezerm542 Год назад

Thank you so much for this video. I will use your advices in my Postdoc interview.

@mrillig Год назад

Thanks; and good luck with your interview!

@littlethings8067 2 года назад

This was so useful . Thankyou so much for sharing.

@mrillig 2 года назад

Thanks for writing! Glad you liked the video.

@raco1993 Год назад

I’ve got the WiMi position . Thank sooooo much for your video 😊, it helped me a lot

@mrillig Год назад

That's great; congratulations!!

@akabuoguemmanuel2984 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video, Prof.

@mrillig 8 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it.

@yingniantao4841 2 года назад

very useful advice!

@mrillig 2 года назад

Thanks, I am glad you found this useful!

@pilotracoon80 7 дней назад

Thank you for the video! I have an interview in 2 days and I'll try to implement your advice as well as I can. One question I have thought about is "do you usually (or have plans to) collaborate with other groups from the institute?" I'm an astrophysicist and multimessenger astronomy/astrophysics is very in vogue now.

@mrillig 7 дней назад

Thanks! Good luck with your interview!

@yasamint4968 2 года назад

Pretty helpful..

@mrillig 2 года назад

thanks!

@ronron2312 2 месяца назад

My postdoctoral interview was rather short. I asked and his response: ‘I only fund foreign postdocs. If you want to join the lab do some research and put together a two to three page proposal for an individual postdoctoral grant along with you CV and a short summary of your thesis research’. A week later my hear my advisor given a reference over the phone and 10 minutes later about setting up time to start flushing out a grant. I learned a lot about how to think about science and why it is a good idea to have a firm understanding of the concepts of evolutionary biology.

@mrillig 2 месяца назад

There are many routes to a postdoc...thanks for sharing yours! Proposal writing skills are essential for success in academia, so I can imagine how you learn a lot from how someone performs in this respect.

@abouzarazarafza4381 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing such an important video. My question is how about the communication skills and personality? How about outfits? Are these important too?

@mrillig 2 года назад

Communication skills and personality will not be directly coming up as questions, they will be continuously observed during the interview, and they are of course very, very important. In our field of ecology/ environmental science, outfits don't matter at all (but I still wouldn't come in shorts and flip-flops). But this may be different in different disciplines that tend to be more formal.

@sebathomas3529 9 месяцев назад

Tomorrow i have an interview. Hope this video would be beneficial to me

@mrillig 9 месяцев назад

Good luck!

@growlerpig 2 года назад

how do i ask a question that "signals my interest in the science" without appearing ignorant (i don't know the answer) or lazy (i want others to do the work for me) or insecure (i have a position but i won't defend it) ? i guess an answer to this would be something like "i'm happy to see you've done work in X, my take on Y is this but i'm curious what you think" -- instead of just blurting out "what is Y about?"

@mrillig 2 года назад

Right, exactly! That question should be an informed question, not one signalling lack of knowledge. In interviews, I've been impressed by people who made implicitly clear - by asking a question - that they had really thought about a certain topic, and that they had the background to formulate such a question in the first place.

@nurcaninci5725 Год назад

Thanks for your videos! I have an interview this friday for Phd and it is really competitive. Would it be appropiate to ask about the details in project like 'is there already chosen agents or can we contribute to that part of the project? ' and I want to know about PI. Should I ask her if she is a supportive or directs students through research ...

@mrillig Год назад

Thanks! I think the first question is ok, as long as you're not asking too many of these kinds of detailed questions. If you ask one about something that's meaningful, then it signals that you have thought about the project. The second question: not sure I would ask this, because what is the PI going to say? That is something for a follow-up interview once you have been made the offer, to make sure you're not getting into a toxic lab. (I have another video on this, where you can find questions that probe this point) Good luck!

@nurulahadakil 2 года назад

Thank you for your detailed information Professor. If my potential Advisor in the interview committee, Can I ask him specific question regarding to his research in the interview? is that within the norm?

@mrillig 2 года назад

Thanks for writing. I would not ask detailed questions, but general questions about the research, if they show that you have thought about the material. When in doubt, save this for later.

@nurulahadakil 2 года назад

@@mrillig Thanks a lot

@withJoman Год назад

Doctor, they asked me to tell them about my approach for the doctoral research project I choose in a 10 min presentation. What does it mean? do I have to tell them all details about what I will do and what instruments I will use, like writing proposal? HELP!

@mrillig Год назад

Not sure, but they probably want to gauge if you know what the scope of a doctoral research project is. So it would be good to outline the (typically) three chapters of a PhD and how they're connected; and it would be good to have a rough idea about the methods/ experimental design etc. you would use, to the extent that you can.

@jomanemad8628 Год назад

@@mrillig Thank you so much Doctor! 🫶🏽 Really appreciated your replay!

@user-gk6kg4yw6w Год назад

A week ago, I had an informal interview for a post-doc position. During the interview, I asked them when can I get the decision for the position. They told me that It will take few weeks. One week has passed, but now, I am so curious about when can I get the results because I need to decide whether to spend time applying for another post-doc position. 😂 Is it a bad idea to email them and ask for the exact decision date? What do you think?

@mrillig Год назад

Thanks for writing. If it was an informal interview, then there may be different things going on, like they might still be securing funding etc. I don't know the specifics, but if they said it will take a few weeks I would probably wait two weeks. If in the meantime other interesting jobs pop up, you can still apply to those, of course. As long as you don't have an offer, you are basically on the market. I understand that this takes time, and so I would definitely write a friendly email after 2 weeks, letting them know that you are very interested in the position and would rather not apply elsewhere if it looks like this would work out.

@user-gk6kg4yw6w Год назад

@@mrillig Thank you! And your comments helped my interview a lot!

@samsomaraya300 2 года назад

How do you know the Ph.D. interview went well, when someone did an interview with several Professors for a single PHD Position, I did four hour interview in a row with 7 professors of the same research faculty, but different direction of research & they love to listen details on every question?

@mrillig 2 года назад

You will never really find out during the interview how it went. People will contact you afterwards with the results. You could of course have a gut feeling about it; but in the end, the interviewer(s) will always remain friendly and you can't really know what is really going on, and they also will have to compare you with all the other people they interviewed.

@samsomaraya300 2 года назад

@@mrillig The thing was, I got positive response from the five Prof and the other two they told me possible to work with some profs in the group, My gut feeling was good during the interview and after, I don't felt any problem, just friendly conversation. If you have time maybe will talk about the questions that I had for your future videos .

@mrillig 2 года назад

Right! If the interview is conducted professionally, you will always feel that this is just a 'friendly conversation'. Sounds like you did well, congrats.

@samsomaraya300 2 года назад

Thanks again, will see the results in future .

@paakwesio 10 месяцев назад

@@samsomaraya300how did it go

@deeptimittal6547 Год назад

Hello Dr Rillig, I really like your videos and they are really informative. I just want to know that I emailed one of the professor and she replied me back and said that she do not have the funding available. I am not sure what to reply her back. Also I am interested to write a proposal for external funding. Can you please suggest me something.

@mrillig Год назад

Thanks! Not sure I understand the context, but after the interview there was then a message that the funding is not available? This could mean that a grant was cancelled or something like this. In this case you could just email back to say thanks for letting you know, and that you would be interested in hearing about future opportunities should they arise.

@deeptimittal6547 Год назад

@@mrillig I sent her an email to enquire about the postdoctoral position so she replied that she don't have the funding to support.