Generalities about interviewing in industry: Interviewing in Industry
You'll often hear about 2 kinds of interviews:
1. Informational (informal) interviews.
These are essentially a meeting to learn about the real-life experience of someone working in a field or company that interests you. So they're not connected to any specific job opportunity. The objective of the conversation is for you to ask about what it's like working in the company or the field, and where there might be opportunities for someone with your skillset. In a way, you're the interviewer. At the same time, this will provide you an opportunity to talk about the skills you bring to the table and hopefully may lead to further conversations with other leaders in the organization. Always make sure to ask your interlocuter whether they might be able to suggest oher people for you to meet.
2. Behavioral Interviews.
By definition, these are a technique that focus on a candidate's past experiences to assess how they navigated specific situations and utilized skills relevant to the position. Behavioral interviewing questions often sound something like, "Think of a time when your encountered a problem and tell me how you handled it." In these cases, the interviewer is far less interested in the problem than the steps you took to remedy it. See basic advice about informational interviews, including basic interview questions and basic informational interview script. A presentation by the Harvard Office of Career Services is also available here. One way to prepare for these is to construct an excel spreadsheet using skills (from the job description) in the left column, and examples demonstrating these skills in the right column.
Finally, possibly the most important piece of advice. When preparing for a real (not informational) interview, feed the job description into a GAI (like ChatGPT) tool and ask it to generate a list of interview questions, based on this description. There also exists AI-powered interview tools, notably Interview Warmup from Google, that can help you to practice and prepare. In particular, these tools simulate an actual interview and give you personalized feedback, based on your responses. So you can use this feedback to identify possible areas for improvement, including body language, tone of voice, or interview questions you struggled with.