Many job seekers have gone through a lot of interviews. Some interviews end in 10 minutes, while others chat for 30 or 40 minutes. Have you found that the admission rate of those who have been interviewed for more than 40 minutes is much higher than those who come out in 10 minutes? Have you estimated how long a general interview is reasonable?

其实从求职者面试的时长就可以推算出面试结果。关于面试时间有一个“40分钟定律”。“什么是40分钟定律？”下面听听猎头公司是怎么说的。

In fact, the interview results can be calculated from the length of the interview. There is a "40 minute rule" about interview time. "What is the 40 minute law?" Let's hear what the headhunting company says.

所谓“40分钟定律”就是说，面试时和你聊天的时间超过40分钟的人才是值得考虑的候选人。在面试过很多人之后，不少HR都会，发现所有不合适的候选人的面试时间都在20分钟左右，而所有合适的候选人的面试时间都超过了40分钟。那么，20分钟和40分钟有什么本质的区别呢？

The so-called "40 minutes law" means that people who spend more than 40 minutes chatting with you during an interview are candidates worth considering. After interviewing a lot of people, many HR will find that the interview time of all unsuitable candidates is about 20 minutes, while the interview time of all suitable candidates is more than 40 minutes. So what's the essential difference between 20 minutes and 40 minutes?

“面试的40分钟包括什么”

"What's included in the 40 minutes of the interview"

从经验来看，面试的前10分钟会用来讨论候选人之前的学习和工作经历，之后还会有10多分钟用来讨论候选人和公司之间的匹配度（技能、经验、文化、薪资等等）。大部分面试基本由这两个部分组成，所以大部分面试的时间都在30分钟之内。

From the perspective of experience, the first 10 minutes of the interview will be used to discuss the candidate's previous learning and work experience, and then more than 10 minutes will be used to discuss the matching degree between the candidate and the company (skills, experience, culture, salary, etc.). Most interviews are basically composed of these two parts, so most interviews are within 30 minutes.
                

而超过40分钟的面试时间会比以上的流程多一个重要的部分：关于公司发展方向的讨论。

The interview time of more than 40 minutes is an important part of the above process: Discussion on the development direction of the company.

对于创业公司来说，每一个创始员工都在参与公司未来发展方向的制定和推动，所以合格的创始员工候选人，会在面试中提出很多他在这方面的想法。以自媒体项目为例，优秀的候选人一般都会和面试官花不少时间讨论一个问题：我们的自媒体会采用什么样的商业模式？因为变现是几乎所有自媒体的发展瓶颈，所以有想法并且“懂行”的候选人都会问到相关的问题并和创始人切磋交流。

For a start-up company, every founder employee is participating in the formulation and promotion of the company's future development direction, so the qualified founder employee candidate will put forward a lot of his ideas in this aspect in the interview. Taking we media projects as an example, excellent candidates usually spend a lot of time with interviewers to discuss a question: what kind of business model do we media experience? Since cashing out is the bottleneck of almost all we media development, candidates who have ideas and "know the industry" will ask relevant questions and exchange views with the founders.

“如何延长面试时长”

"How to extend the interview time"

延长面试时长其实就是面试成功率提高的表现。求职者可以从面试时长来评价自己这次的面试。而成功的面试主要有三部分，学习工作经历、岗位匹配度、公司发展方向，一般的求职者都会有个部分的面试过程，所以求职者需要在介绍自己的经历时有所选择，尽量挑选自己更相关的经历进行介绍，让自己的岗位匹配度更高，才有机会进行之后的对话。在后面的深入自我介绍时，将之前岗位的工作内容往面试岗位上靠，表明自己能够胜任该岗位。这样才能和面试官进行一个比较长时间的谈话，求职成功率也会变高。

Extending the interview time is actually the performance of improving the success rate of the interview. Job seekers can evaluate their interview by the length of the interview. The successful interview has three parts: learning work experience, job matching degree and company development direction. The general job seeker will have the first part of the interview process. Therefore, job seekers need to choose their own more relevant experience to introduce their own experience, so that they can have a better job matching before they have the opportunity to have a dialogue later. In the following in-depth self introduction, the previous job content to the interview position, show that they are competent for the post. Only in this way can we have a long conversation with the interviewer, and the success rate of job hunting will be higher.