Some Interview Pointers

I've been having people mock interview me, and researching interviews at IESE and ESADE to DEATH. Here are some pointers I've picked up:

1. Slow down when talking. The more thought out your words are, the more powerful they become. Nothing is more boring than rambling.
2. When you are given a question that stumps you, acknowledge it with something like “Wow, that’s a really good question. I just need a second to organize my thoughts around it”
3. When asked about your experiences with resolving conflict, leading a team, or how you handled certain situations, avoid we. This only prompt the interviewer to ask, ok, so what role in the WE did YOU play. Try to frame your answers with “I”.

Also, the key point in the interview where you get to really show what's important to you, and really turn the interview into a conversation, is when its your turn to ask the questions. This is your opportunity to make yourself stand out, and be a person they remember instead of just another interviewee.

Here are the ones I came up with...
Potential Questions:
1. I am very interested in pursuing an international exchange in my second year, but I’m concerned as to how that will affect my ability to secure a job upon graduation. ESADE prides itself on the relationship your career advisors build with the students from day one – will I be minimizing the impact of this if I chose to be in a different city or country at the end of my education? Will I have to rely on the career opportunities offered by the school I pursue my exchange with? Do the career services of the school take this into account at all?
2. I was very excited to learn about the innovation project partnership with the EU that ESADE will be involved in. Given my background with energy sustainability through my work with Smart Metering, I am very interested in being involved in future advancements in the industry and contributing to it where I can. Will students be directly involved in this effort, or is it more of a faculty/research project? Is this being built into the curriculum at all?
3. In the current economic environment, MBA are increasingly being referred to as either the heart of the problem or useless all together. Over the last two years, you hear about students coming out with prestigious MBAs, a lot of debt, and crawling right back to the employers they left to pursue their MBA, slightly wiser and a lot poorer. How is ESADE responding to the opinion that tomorrow’s business leaders wont be the ones with prestigious business educations but rather the renegades that learn how to work around the new systems that will be put into place as the world works toward a slow and sustainable recovery? What changes have you made to your curriculum to reflect the new needs of the world economy and the faces likely to be faced by businesses in the immediate and long term future?