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Because hiring staff is typically a time-consuming and costly process, many companies are now opting to interview multiple candidates at once. The Society for Human Resource Management reported that group interviews have become increasingly popular among employers. For applicants, this changes the interview experience significantly. Instead of fielding questions about your résumé in a one-on-one setting, youve now got to vie for a role alongside other applicants and take part in real-world workplace scenarios designed to showcase your leadership skills. Tech companies and brands such as Disney, Starbucks, and The Gap are choosing to adopt the trend. Not only can interviewers see how candidates work in high-pressure situations, but fewer interviewers need to be trained in the company. By screening multiple candidates at once, this style of interview can save employers time, while also allowing them to observe candidates’ critical thinking and communication skills in action, says Sarah Skelton, managing director of recruitment company Flourish. Skelton adds that this interview style can not only be a timesaver for companies, but it can also save applicants time, too. For the candidates, this can give an opportunity to showcase their skills in one day. But it can also be a stressful process, especially if youre used to the traditional interview experience. The next time youre asked to participate in a group interview, heres what to keep in mind in order to make sure you stand out to the hiring managers: Practice your networking skills When taking part in a group interview, try networking to make you feel calm, grounded, and present. It may be helpful to warm yourself up by having a couple of light touch questions you ask other interviewees before the interview starts, for example, How was your journey?” says leadership coach Keren Blackmore from Leap of Thought. Being interviewed alongside others might actually help reduce the amount of stress you feel, as youre all in the same boat. You can also use the opportunity to increase your network. The people you meet at the interview may be interesting contacts for the future, [so] why not, for example, connect on LinkedIn? says Blackmore. Think about your body language While it may be more difficult to stand out in a group interview, you can still make your presence felt, even when youre silent. Psychologist Albert Mehrabian said that 55% of our communication is through body language, rather than speaking. Beth Hope, an executive coach who specializes in resilience, says your body language in these group interview settings should reflect calm confidence. Sit tall, ground your feet, keep your shoulders relaxed and open. This will help calm your nervous system and give you a boost of confidence, says Hope. Use purposeful gestures when speaking and avoid nervous habits like fidgeting or crossed arms. Confidence [is] about owning your space, staying grounded, and showing youre comfortable being yourself. Executive coach Joseph Ball adds that to show engagement, you should nod, smile, [and] make eye contact with the speaker. Know when not to talk Group interviews may be embraced by extroverts, but the key is knowing when not to talk. The best way to stand out in any setting is not to be the loudest voice, but to be the clarifying voice, says Mike Manoske, executive coach at The Wharton School. The way to do that is through active listening and playback: replaying back what youve heard, followed by adding additional ideas to move things forward. Make sure to keep your tone respectful. Leadership development trainer Andy Coley says you should avoid the word but when responding to someone elses idea or perspective. A but can be seen as confrontational, says Coley. Instead say yes, and this is my perspective. [This] implies youve acknowledged the other person’s point of view, whereas but comes across as a disagreement, which can lead to egos getting hurt, he says. You can also show support for others without affecting your chances, says Coley. If someone shares a good idea, a simple comment like ‘Thats a great point,’ shows that youre thoughtful and team-minded, he says. That kind of behavior stands out because it shows you care about the whole group, not just yourselfand thats real leadership. Treat other applicants as peers, not competition Another way to gain confidence in this group setting is to view the other people as peers, rather than competition, says Blackmore. This helps frame them as equals rather than a threat. Dont spend your time distracted by how the other candidates may or may not be a better fit. They are no better or worse, but they do have different skills and experiences. If youre in the interview, you are there for a reason. How you show up in the group environment is likely to be just as important as your [credentials] and experience. Work psychologist Dr. Marie-Hélne Pelletier says a group interview presents a good opportunity to work on your mental toughness. Identify what may get you off track and prepare. If another candidate saying a [great] point puts you at risk of losing your confidence, prepare now to put this aside mentally. If you dont have the typical skills for the role, view this as a superpower. A great way to stand out is to connect insights from your nontraditional background to help move the group forward, says executive coach Kelly Ling. For example, if you are moving from a business development role into a product manager role, you can bring in your experience of understanding customers needs. Keep an eye on the time The whole idea of the group interview is to find someone who can do the job and even uncover a future leader. Skelton says that group interviews often include a timed component, so its important for candidates to demonstrate strong time management skills and help keep the group focused. Successful participants will guide the team toward hitting key milestones throughout the session and ensure a clear conclusion is reached by the end, says Skelton.
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Is your green my green? Probably not. What appears as pure green to me will likely look a bit yellowish or blueish to you. This is because visual systems vary from person to person. Moreover, an objects color may appear differently against different backgrounds or under different lighting. These facts might naturally lead you to think that colors are subjective. That, unlike features such as length and temperature, colors are not objective features. Either nothing has a true color, or colors are relative to observers and their viewing conditions. But perceptual variation has misled you. We are philosophers who study colors, objectivity, and science, and we argue in our book The Metaphysics of Colors that colors are as objective as length and temperature. Perceptual variation There is a surprising amount of variation in how people perceive the world. If you offer a group of people a spectrum of color chips ranging from chartreuse to purple and asked them to pick the unique green chipthe chip with no yellow or blue in ittheir choices would vary considerably. Indeed, there wouldnt be a single chip that most observers would agree is unique green. Generally, an objects background can result in dramatic changes in how you perceive its colors. If you place a gray object against a lighter background, it will appear darker than if you place it against a darker background. This variation in perception is perhaps most striking when viewing an object under different lighting, where a red apple could look green or blue. Of course, that you experience something differently does not prove that what is experienced is not objective. Water that feels cold to one person may not feel cold to another. And although we do not know who is feeling the water correctly, or whether that question even makes sense, we can know the temperature of the water and presume that this temperature is independent of your experience. Similarly, that you can change the appearance of somethings color is not the same as changing its color. You can make an apple look green or blue, but that is not evidence that the apple is not red. Under different lighting conditions, objects take on different colors. [Photo: Liia Galimzianova/Getty Images] For comparison, the moon appears larger when its on the horizon than when it appears near its zenith. But the size of the moon has not changed, only its appearance. Hence, that the appearance of an objects color or size varies is, by itself, no reason to think that its color and size are not objective features of the object. In other words, the properties of an object are independent of how they appear to you. That said, given that there is so much variation in how objects appear, how do you determine what color something actually is? Is there a way to determine the color of something despite the many different experiences you might have of it? Matching colors Perhaps determining the color of something is to determine whether it is red or blue. But we suggest a different approach. Notice that squares that appear to be the same shade of pink against different backgrounds look different against the same background. The smaller squares may appear to be the same color, but if you compare them with the strip of squares at the bottom, theyre actually different shades. [Photo: Shobdohin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA] Its easy to assume that to prove colors are objective would require knowing which observers, lighting conditions and backgrounds are the best, or normal. But determining the right observers and viewing conditions is not required for determining the very specific color of an object, regardless of its name. And it is not required to determine whether two objects have the same color. To determine whether two objects have the same color, an observer would need to view the objects side by side against the same background and under various lighting conditions. If you painted part of a room and find that you dont have enough paint, for instance, finding a match might be very tricky. A color match requires that no observer under any lighting condition will see a difference between the new paint and the old. That two people can determine whether two objects have the same color even if they dont agree on exactly what that color isjust as a pool of water can have a particular temperature without feeling the same to me and youseems like compelling evidence to us that colors are objective features of our world. Colors, science, and indispensability Everyday interactions with colorssuch as matching paint samples, determining whether your shirt and pants clash, and even your ability to interpret works of artare hard to explain if colors are not objective features of objects. But if you turn to science and look at the many ways that researchers think about colors, it becomes harder still. For example, in the field of color science, scientific laws are used to explain how objects and light affect perception and the colors of other objects. Such laws, for instance, predict what happens when you mix colored pigments, when you view contrasting colors simultaneously or successively, and when you look at colored objects in various lighting conditions. The philosophers Hilary Putnam and Willard van Orman Quine made famous what is known as the indispensability argument. The basic idea is that if something is indispensable to science, then it must be real and objectiveotherwise, science wouldnt work as well as it does. For example, you may wonder whether unobservable entities such as electrons and electromagnetic fields really exist. But, so the argument goes, the best scientific explanations assume the existence of such entities and so they must exist. Similarly, because mathematics is indispensable to contemporary science, some philosophers argue that this means mathematical objects are objective and exist independently of a persons mind. The bright colors of this granular poison frog signal a warning to predators of its toxicity. [Photo: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA] Likewise, we suggest that color plays an indispensable role in evolutionary biology. For example, researchers have argued that aposematismthe use of colors to signal a warning for predatorsalso benefits an animals ability to gather resources. Here, an animals coloration works directly to expand its food-gathering niche insofar as it informs potential predators that the animal is poisonous or venomous. In fact, animals can exploit the fact that the same color pattern can be perceived differently by different perceivers. For instance, some damselfish have ultraviolet face patterns that help them be recognized by other members of their species and communicate with potential mates while remaining largely hidden to predators unable to perceive ultraviolet colors. In sum, our ability to determine whether objects are colored the same or differently and the indispensable roles they play in science suggest that colors are as real and objective as length and temperature. Elay Shech is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University. Michael Watkins is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Social media users have been having a field day with Waymos autonomous vehicles, sharing videos that poke fun at the driverless cars getting stuck, acting unpredictably, or simply navigating the world a little too awkwardly. The latest wave of posts follows Waymos recent expansion into Austin, where users are already documenting bizarre and frustrating experiences with the service. TikTok user Becky Levin Navarro posted a video on April 20 claiming a Waymo car trapped her and her fellow passengers on the side of a highway after heading in the wrong direction. This is the most insane thing. Were in a Waymo, here, under Mopac, she said. It was going the wrong way, we called customer support, it stopped us right here and wouldnt let us out of the car. @beckypearlatx Zero stars for waymo. When we pulled up next to Deep Eddy Cabaret and the waymo didnt let us out and instead kept going the wrong direction towards downtown we said please let us out here it wouldnt let us out so it headed east, turned around back towards deep eddy cabaret and then STOPPED in a horrible spot to stop. We kept asking for it to move and customer service refused. #waymo #tiktok original sound – Becky Levin Navarro The video shows passengers speaking to customer support through the cars intercom. The agent explains the car can’t be moved manually, and asks for a physical address to relocate the vehicle. A Waymo spokesperson later responded: Waymo riders always have the ability to pause their ride and exit the vehicle when desired. Passengers can exit the vehicle by pulling the handle twiceonce to unlock and another to open the door. From being called drunk robots to causing traffic jams in the middle of the night, Waymo has become a regular subject of online trolling. Viral clips include Waymos honking at each other in the early morning hours, jamming up intersections, and getting stuck in drive-throughs. Some show police and parking enforcement stepping in to deal with wayward vehicles. @bluenote727 Waymo Self Driving Car Big Malfunction original sound – Blue Note A video from San Francisco shows a Waymo going the wrong way during a Warriors game as officials try to redirect it. Its not funny. This is a very serious matter, a police officer jokes to bystanders. The vehicle eventually backs up, awkwardly swerving to avoid a pickup truck. See, it worked!” the officer says with a shrug. “Still a little weird. I wouldnt have went that way, but . . . @travellingnepali When a Waymo driverless car goes the wrong way during a Warriors game in SF and the cops + parking enforcement have to teach it a lesson. Waymo: processing processing Finally it gets the memo and turns back! #Waymo #bayareacheck WaymorivingStruggles #SanFrancisco #WarriorsGame #driverlesscar #nepali original sound – Anil & Mansha Waymos fleet has more than tripled on California roads over the past year. A DMV report from April 11 cites 30 autonomous vehicle incidents in 2024. Still, Waymo reports 81% fewer injury-causing crashes and 64% fewer airbag deployments compared to human drivers in San Francisco and Phoenix. Despite its safety claims, the company remains a favorite online target. As Waymo expands into more citiesincluding a recent launch in Tokyothe internet doesnt seem ready to let the driverless cars off the hook.
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