This document discusses 10 frequently asked interview questions and provides tips on how to effectively answer each question. It covers common questions such as telling about yourself, why you want to leave your last job, what you know about the company, why you should be hired, strengths and weaknesses, relevant experience, future goals, salary expectations, and having questions prepared for the interviewer. The document emphasizes conducting research on the company, highlighting relevant skills and accomplishments, being positive, and having well-thought out answers ready for typical interview questions.
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Frequently Asked Questions.
A job interview is like a driving test, you have to spend several hours preparing if
you intend to be successful. Preparing with frequently asked job chat questions
happens to be one of the ways of easing your stress during the session. Nobody
loves being interviewed. However if you want to be successful in your job search,
you have to pass through an interview and of course be successful. To be
successful therefore, preparing with commonly asked job chat questions
increases your chances of doing so. It also increases your confidence during the
session having already prepared and known the answers to likely questions if
asked. Our objective here is to offer tips on answering such commonly asked
questions.
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Frequently Asked Interview Questions:
● Introduce yourself or tell me about yourself
One of the most frequently asked questions in interview sessions. To answer this
question, you do not need to tell your life story from birth as this might likely
bore the interviewer to death. You should give information about your education,
career and current situation and this will certainly do the job. You need to give
information about the best qualities that make you the cream of the candidates.
You also need to outline the key points that are relevant to your personal
characteristics like being committed, enthusiastic, team worker and use personal
life examples like your sports or hobbies, or social charity interest to demonstrate
your personal attributes.
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● Why did you leave (or want to leave) your last job?:
A careless job seeker might be trapped in answering this question as a straight
forward answer is required. Your mission in seeking a new job is to advance in
your career and get a position that will help you develop as a person and as an
employee. Giving any answer that has monetary motive might be a wrong move.
If you have been downsized or terminated, you should still be positive about it by
giving straight forward answers as there is no one that is above downsizing or
termination.
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● What do you know about this company?:
It is absolutely necessary that a prospective job seeker conducts background
research work on a company putting a job on offer. It is in situation like this that
the benefit of such research work is put into use. However, you should only
mention to the interviewer the positive things you know about the company.
Answering this question based on your background information will make you
stand out as a candidate well prepared and above all one genuinely interested in
the company and the job on offer.
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● Why should I hire you?:
This is where you need to showcase your qualities. You should answer the
question by asserting that you are the best person for this job and you should
give reasons to back up this claim. You need to show your passion and
enthusiasm when answering this question. You need to give examples of
places where you achieved your goals and or contributed to the success of a
team or organizational activity. It is your accomplishments that the hiring
manager is interested in and you need to give it to him. You have also been
presented the perfect chance to showcase your skills and abilities all over
again. Tell the interviewer about the skills and talents you possess which are
related to the job on offer and which makes you the perfect candidate for
employment. You should focus on yourself alone though and avoid taking any
shot on other candidates.
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● What is your greatest strength?:
Any interview session is no different from a sales presentation to market a
product – you. It therefore presents the interviewee the best opportunity to sell
herself and convince the interviewer that she is the best for the position on offer
and a perfect match for it. You should therefore not hold back but tell the
interviewer that you are worth being employed. Since the interviewer is looking
for work related strengths, you could say that you are a problem solver and
explain why. You could also say you are a team player and explain why. You could
say you are a great motivator and explain why. You need to identify your strengths
and possibly identify the greatest amongst them before any interview session.
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What is your biggest weakness? :
Answering this question demands some tact. You cannot be too honest about
your weakness as you will be shooting yourself on the foot. You cannot also be too
dishonest either as you could easily be found out. You could name a weakness and
turn it into a strength. Simple. For example you could say that your biggest
weakness is being a perfectionist who strives for perfection in all he does. You
have listed this as a weakness but indeed turned it into strength. Also you could
list a weakness and tell the interviewer how you are working hard to correct it.
This is a great opportunity to let them know that you are still undertaking
personal and professional development training as well. You could tell the
interviewer one of your subtle weaknesses such as being disorganized and tell
him/her how you are solving it currently such as by having an organizer or
attending a training on how to get organized.
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● Mention the relevant experience that qualifies you
for this job? :
Before applying for a particular position as an experienced worker, you must have
got several experiences you could share with the interviewer. Share all these with
the interviewer. However, if you are trying to switch job, that is where some
honest creativity to match the experiences you possess comes into play.
Supervisory skill for example is the same any day and anywhere no matter the
profession. Same with management skill. Try sharing with the interviewer your
experiences while supervising or managing your subordinates where you have
worked. As a new job seeker however, state how your education has equipped you
towards the necessary skills needed for the job and give examples to support this
claim.
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● Please tell me about your future objectives:
Here the interviewer is asking for your career plan and goal. What path do you
want your career to take? How do you see yourself in the next five years? Most
job seekers however are caught off guard here because it is not everyone that
has fully planned out their career direction. However, it is important that you
show that you have thought out your life goals well enough to at least know
what you will like to be doing at in 5 years time. Show that you have ambition,
and want to further develop your skills within the organization. This is a
fundamental question you need to have an intelligent answer for to have good
job interview skills.
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● Talking about salary, what amount are you looking
for? :
This is a very tricky question that demands a lot of tact to answer. Before going
for any interview however, try to conduct research on the salary range people
occupying the kind of position on offer are paid within the industry. Or in the
alternative visit www.salary.com and check. This will give you an idea of the salary
range people with your kind of qualification and experiences are paid. In
answering the question therefore you could say “ I have given this kind of
question some thought and feel a person with my kind of qualification and skills
should be paid between X and Y.”
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● Do you have any question to ask? :
This question is directly related to the research work you must have conducted
on the company putting a job on offer. Never ask a question about monetary
benefits. Also you should never greet the interviewer with a blank stare. You
could ask questions like “how soon can I start work?” Or “who am I going to work
with?” You should ask questions that are directly related to the job. It is therefore
advisable to always have a question ready.