Job Interview Techniques
Job Interview Techniques
Q: Tell me about yourself?
Trap: . Many candidates, unprepared for the question, skewer themselves by rambling, recapping their life story, delving into ancient work history or personal matters.
Ans: Start with the present and tell why you are well qualified for the position. Remember that the key to all successful interviewing is to match your qualifications to what the interviewer is looking for. In other words you must sell what the buyer is buying. This is the single most important strategy in job hunting.
Q:What are your streanghts?
Trap: You know that your key strategy is to first uncover your interviewers greatest wants and needs before you answer questions. And from question 1, you know how to do this.
Ans: Prior to any interview, you should have a list mentally prepared of your greatest strengths. You should also have, a specific example or two, which illustrates each strength, an example chosen from your most recent and most impressive achievements. Then, once you uncover your interviewers greatest wants and needs, you can choose those achievements from your list that best match up.
Q: What are your weaknesses?
Trap: Beware this is an eliminator question, designed to shorten the candidate list. Any admission of a weakness or fault will earn you an A for honesty, but an F for the interview.
Ans: Nobody is perfect, but based on what you have told me about this position, I believe I had make an outstanding match. I know that when I hire people, I look for two things most of all. Do they have the qualifications to do the job well, and the motivation to do it well? Everything in my background shows I have both the qualifications and a strong desire to achieve excellence in whatever I take on. So I can say in all honesty that I see nothing that would cause you even a small concern about my ability or my strong desire to perform this job with excellence.
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Q: Tell me about yourself?
Trap: . Many candidates, unprepared for the question, skewer themselves by rambling, recapping their life story, delving into ancient work history or personal matters.
Ans: Start with the present and tell why you are well qualified for the position. Remember that the key to all successful interviewing is to match your qualifications to what the interviewer is looking for. In other words you must sell what the buyer is buying. This is the single most important strategy in job hunting.
Q:What are your streanghts?
Trap: You know that your key strategy is to first uncover your interviewers greatest wants and needs before you answer questions. And from question 1, you know how to do this.
Ans: Prior to any interview, you should have a list mentally prepared of your greatest strengths. You should also have, a specific example or two, which illustrates each strength, an example chosen from your most recent and most impressive achievements. Then, once you uncover your interviewers greatest wants and needs, you can choose those achievements from your list that best match up.
Q: What are your weaknesses?
Trap: Beware this is an eliminator question, designed to shorten the candidate list. Any admission of a weakness or fault will earn you an A for honesty, but an F for the interview.
Ans: Nobody is perfect, but based on what you have told me about this position, I believe I had make an outstanding match. I know that when I hire people, I look for two things most of all. Do they have the qualifications to do the job well, and the motivation to do it well? Everything in my background shows I have both the qualifications and a strong desire to achieve excellence in whatever I take on. So I can say in all honesty that I see nothing that would cause you even a small concern about my ability or my strong desire to perform this job with excellence.
Q: Tell meabout some thing you did- or failed to do-