In a panel interview, two or more interviewers play off each other while taking turns asking you questions. A panel interview is appropriately nicknamed a "tag-team interview". It's primarily to see how well you handle stress while facing a "firing squad". A panel interview also measures how you interact with different people, especially your future bosses, work peers, or both.

Some of the common points need to be remembered during interview:

• Get familiar with the organization and the industry. Bring a list of highlights that you'd like to mention during the interview. If possible, call the organization or do your own research to get basic bio information on each of the panel members.
• Relax and focus on your responses. Don't be afraid to use interviewers' name throughout the process, people love to hear their names during a conversation.
• Keep eye contact with each person, with special attention to the individual who asked the question.
• Take note during the interview, it can help you memorize each panel member's name, his/her specific concern, and the facts mentioned in each questions.
• Send a separate thank you note to each panel member after the interview.
• Look for the personality type underscoring each interviewer. Then try and connect with each one of them without getting personal. Usually the best way to make contact is to project values that you feel you can share with your interviewers.
• Don't be obsequious. That conveys low self-esteem.
• You'll be up against a time crunch in a team interview.
• Use stress control techniques to soothe your nerves. You might even use the extra adrenaline to sharpen your responses.
• List seven important things that fit the job description of the advertised post. Prepare to present skills that fit such traits.
• It helps to talk to friends familiar with the job description. You can even ask them to prepare tests that you can take from them.
• Recreate the formality of a team interview situation and ask them to fire nonstop questions at you. That will serve as a useful practice session.
• Ask for serious feedback, especially about weak areas in your answers. Questions about qualifications and work experience are usually generic, so what your mock team asks you is bound to be pretty close to the real stuff.
• Ask questions if necessary. It is quite in order and much appreciated by the interviewers.
• Last but not the least, BE NATURAL. Many interviewees adopt a stance, which is not their natural self. It is amusing for the interviewers when a candidate launches into a new accent that he/she cannot sustain consistently through the interview or adopt mannerism that are inconsistent with their own personalities. So it is BEST for you to talk in the natural manner because you come across as genuine.