Answer these Questions
and you can relax...

You have to be able to answer these questions and you and I know that

"Tell me about yourself"

Now before you start to figure out how you will answer these questions go to my interview overview and consider what sort of interview you may be going for so that you can also decide how to answer these questions:

1 Why do you think you would like to work for our company?

2 What interests you most about our products or services?

3 What, specifically, do you have to offer us?

4 Why did you choose your particular field of work?

5 What do you think are the disadvantages of your chosen field?

6 Will you please give me a brief summary of your work experience?

7 What were your duties and responsibilities in each job?

8 Which job did you like best? Which least? Why?

9 When you are considering different job opportunities, what things do you look for?

10 What do you want to avoid in your next job’?

11 What was the reason you decided to leave that job?

12 What promotions or merit increases have you received? Why did they promote you?

13 What compliments have you received for your good work?

14 What criticisms have you received on the job’? How did you feel about that criticism?

15 Did you make any changes in the routine of your last position’? Do you think these changes benefited the company or yourself?

16 What kind of supervision brings out the best in you?

17 Would you be willing to work on multiple tasks under one position?

18 Do you prefer to work under pressure or in a more relaxed environment?

19 What kind of pressure bothers you the most’?

20 Do you like routine work? Regular hours?

Now see if you can answer these questions...

21 Describe what you feel to be the ideal job for you.

22 What do you feel may be holding you back from more advancement? Why?

23 How long have you been looking for work? How have you gone about it?

24 Are you willing to relocate’? Would this cause any undue difficulty?

25 Would you accept a job requiring travel?

26 What qualifications do you have that make you feel you will be successful in this position?

27 To what style of management do you relate best’?

28 Have you ever started something up from scratch’?

29 Have you ever taken an idea or a product and made it grow’?

30 How do you manage people - describe your style, methods, and relationships.

31 At what do you have a lot of ability?

32 What kind of people do you like to work with’?

33 Describe an incident from your work life that you viewed as risky. Why did you view it as risky?

34 What size of organisation would you like to work in? Why?

35 What kind of job would you like to have in five years?

36 What are your greatest strengths/weaknesses?

37 How do you handle direction? Do you like minimal direction or do you feel more secure with greater supervision?

Can you answer these questions?

38 Are you eager to please?

39 Do you consider yourself to be a flexible person’? Explain?

40 What does frustration mean to you? How do you handle frustration?

41 How do you feel about persons with backgrounds and interests different from your own? Can you be tolerant of their differences’?

42 What are your own special abilities?

43 Were you ever in a position of appraising others’? What type of criteria did you use?

44 How do you react when people disagree with you’?

45 Describe your working relationship with your previous employers.

46 Do you prefer working with others or by yourself?

47 What do you think are the personal characteristics that are necessary for success in this position?

48 When you took your present job, what were your goals? How did you intend achieving these goals?

49 How do you see this job fitting into your future vocational plans and goals?

50 What kind of income to you think you should be making in 2/5 years time?

51 If we don’t offer you the job after this interview, why do you think that would be?

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