One-on-one meetings are an important tool for effective communication and team management. Here are some tips for conducting effective one-on-one meetings: Set clear goals: Before the meeting, decide on the specific topics you want to discuss and set clear goals for what you want to achieve. This will help keep the conversation on track and ensure that you are able to accomplish what you need to. Prepare an agenda: Create an agenda for the meeting and share it with the other person in advance. This will give them time to prepare and ensure that the conversation covers all the important points. Getting into the meeting with a prepared agenda will look very professional and organized for your manager and will affect the perception of your manager about you. Listen actively: During the meeting, actively listen to the other person and encourage them to share their thoughts and concerns. Show that you are interested in what they have to say by asking follow-up questions and providing feedback. Communicate clearly: Speak clearly and be direct about what you want to achieve in the meeting. Avoid ambiguity or passive language that might make it hard for the other person to understand what you want. Follow up: After the meeting, follow up with the other person to ensure that any action items are completed and that any decisions made are being implemented. Be flexible: Be open to changing the agenda if the other person has something they want to discuss that is not on the agenda. Be flexible and willing to adapt to their needs as well. Be consistent: Try to have regular one-on-one meetings to check in on progress, discuss any issues that have come up, and make sure that everyone is on the same page. We have made a Notion template for you to be used in your own one-on-one meetings. By following these tips, you can ensure that your one-on-one meetings are productive, efficient, and effective in achieving your goals. Join IT Society to get free Interview mentorship
1. UNDERSTANDthe question The most essential but the mostly missed out step is understanding really what you have been asked. Whether technical or non-technical, this is the most crucial step you should focus on. Pramod Khincha, former director of Engineering at Google highlights this: "I have seen really good candidates failing just because of answering something totally different than I really asked them. Maybe more than a half". Join IT Society to get free Interview mentorship 2. KNOWyour audience It's always a good thing to know who will interview you. Most companies send a complete on-site schedule a day before the interview. Use this list, research the interviewers. Understand their background. An interviewer currently in a managerial position might expect totally different than a deep machine learning engineer. Even sometimes you are able to find their personal GitHub repositories with ton of interview questions 🤞. 3. MANAGEyour time Some candidates just jump in and start to code. On the other hand, some spend 10-15 minutes to clarify the problem. Both are red flags. Spend 5 mins to clarify the problem and some edge cases, but not all. Then begin with even a trivial solution. Keep the interviewer involved. It’s always a good signal to provide a working solution in the first 20-25 minutes. Join IT Society to get free Interview mentorship 4. NEVERgive up Even you cannot solve the question, surprisingly even you cannot write one line of code, do not get down. Always keep up. This is very important for companies to hire people with positive and optimistic attitude.Tyson Turkozwho is a lead software architect in Samsung Electronics emphasizes the positive attitude:“Sometimes it’s OK for a candidate to not completely solve the problem. But what I value is their positiveness and their trustworthy outlook. I need to rely on them. I need to trust”. 5. AVOIDgiving bad signals / red flags Technical interviews are not only technical. Interviewers are looking for someone to spend the whole day together on stressful and complicated problems. Modern problems are technically trivial. The issue begins with culture. Show your best attitude in all sessions. Avoid blaming your previous teammates, getting angry or too nervous, being too opinionated and using buzz words. Join IT Society to get free Interview mentorship Join us today to meet with hundreds of engineers, to get free mock interviews, interview prep sessions, soft skill conversation clubs and book clubs. IT Societyis a non-profit organization that uses its capacity and resources to help members get up to speed in IT domain.