The document discusses topics that may be of interest to employers during job interviews, such as an applicant's motivation, communication skills, flexibility, and stress management. It also lists some questions employers should avoid asking due to legal restrictions, such as those about age, family plans, disabilities, or religion. The document provides examples of illegal questions and suggests alternative legal questions employers could ask instead. It concludes by listing references used to compile the information about legal and illegal interview questions.

1. An interview from the point of view of an employer An employer is a person or institution that hires employees or workers.

2. What is of interest for the employer? 1. Personal lines and motivation 2. Purposes 3. Communications 4 .Flexibility 5. Stress 6. Pliability 7. ILLEGAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS End

3. ▪ What do you think of the workload? ▪ What forces you to make your work better? ▪ How can we help you to carry out your work? ▪ What upsets you the most about your work? ▪ Tell me about an exciting project completed by you! ▪ Under what conditions do you work better?

4. ▪ What is your intention for the next 5 years? ▪ Tell, what success for you means! ▪ What does failure for you mean? ▪ Do you consider yourself successful? ▪ Do you reach your intentions? How do you do it?

5. ▪ Tell me about a working situation when excellent communication skills were required from you. ▪ Do you prefer to speak with somebody directly or to leave notes? ▪ How do you estimate the ability to communicate with the higher heads, clients and the top management? ▪ What would be more important in your work - oral or written communications?

6. ▪ Tell me about the last changes which have occurred at your office. How were you supported? ▪ I am curious to learn about last time when you incurred risk: Looking back , can you tell, whether this decision was valid? ▪ How important is interaction with others in your work? With what quantity of departments have you dealt with? Name problems! ▪ Tell about an emergency situation which has forced you to transfer the work/project!

7. ▪ Tell about a situation when it was necessary to finish your work urgently. ▪ What kind of decisions are the most difficult for you? ▪ What was the most difficult working situation having appeared to you? ▪ What type of work delivers great difficulties to you? ▪ When there is a lot of work and not enough time for you, how do you reach an outcome?

8. ▪ What you do, when you have troubles with the boss? ▪ Something absolutely incorrectly is said to you. What would be your actions? ▪ If you were criticized unreasonably - what would you do? ▪ Would you like to get the job of your boss? Why yes or why not at present? Where there moments in which you had different opinions than your boss? ▪ What has your boss done which was not pleasant to you at all? ▪ Describe the best manager whom you ever saw. The worst.

9. How old are you? When is your birthday? Do you expect to become have a family? When? How many children will you have? What is your native language? What clubs or social organizations do you belong to? Example of Illegal Questions Possible Legal Alternatives Are you over the age of 18? Can you, after employment, provide proof of age? Do you have responsibilities or commitments that will prevent you from meeting specified work schedules? Do you have any language abilities that would be helpful in doing this job? (Legal if language ability is directly relevant to job performance.)

10. List of used literature: http://www.job-interview.net http://www.jobinterviewquestions.org/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/29/usc_sup_01_29.html