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Ace Your Job Interview At Elastic! Situational Questions, STAR Method, And More

Ace Your Job Interview At Elastic! Situational Questions, STAR Method, And More

💎 Prepare for your job interview at Elastic with these key tips from the company’s recruiters!


📼 If you’re looking to apply for an open job at Elastic, watch this video to get useful advice that will help you get through the interview process at the company. You’ll meet Roxy Wolfe, Senior Recruiter, and Jacqueline Mills, Recruiter at Elastic, who will go over the company’s application and interview process, and tell you about Elastic’s culture and values, as well as how to best prepare for the interview process.

📼 Does a job at Elastic always require a technical background? First things first: as Roxy explains, when applying to a software company, there’s this common misconception that you need a technical background just to get your foot in the door. That just simply isn’t the case at Elastic. What they’re looking at is the person from a whole holistic view. Does this person have the transferable soft skills to do well and deliver results quickly in this role? So when the recruiter starts asking, are you a team player? Do you deliver results? You can give some STAR method answers and tangible examples of how you meet the responsibilities and the requirements of the role.

📼 When you apply for a job at Elastic, the STAR method is a key tool you can use. The STAR method will make sure that your answers give the interviewer a clear and concise idea of your experience. The STAR method consists of clearly outlining the situation you handled, the task that you were given, the action you took, and the result, or the outcome, of that situation. And a great way to add to that is to give your best learning lesson from said situation.

Show Up As Your Best To The Job Interview At Elastic

The best way to show up to an interview is to just simply be prepared. Show the interviewer you did your research! Not only you should know what the company does, who their competitors are, but also what's really driving you and motivating you to go through this interview process. In Roxy’s words: “I think it's awesome when a candidate’s taken the time to look at our social media, maybe they've read a few blog posts, maybe they've read a few of our cases on our website to see how our clients are using our products. This is gonna show the interviewer not only that you took the time to prepare, but that you're passionate about the role, and about Elastic as a company, as well.”

🧑💼 Are you interested in joining Elastic? They have open positions! To learn more, click here.

Get To Know Roxy and Jackie

Roxy is a human resources professional with experience in Performance Management, Data Analytics, Project Management, Client Service, Training & Development, Marketing Campaigns, Meeting Planning, Social Media, Full Life Cycle Recruiting, University Relations, Event Management, Intern Program Management, Talent Management and Talent and Recruiting Analytics. Jackie is an experienced Recruiting Professional with a passion for providing an exemplary candidate experience at Amazon. BSBA and concentration in Human Resource Management from Bryant University. If you are interested in a career at Elastic, you can connect with her on LinkedIn!

More About Elastic

They're the company behind the Elastic Stack — that's Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, they help people explore and analyze their data differently using the power of search. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems.

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