Examples of job interview questions and how to answer them.
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In this blog, we provide some advice on how to answer some common interview questions.
Job Interview Questions:
What are your strengths?
Answer:
Carry out some self-analysis to determine your strengths. Focus on both your personal and professional strengths and your achievements. Ensure you highlight particular characteristics about yourself that are required for your job role.
Job Interview Questions:
What are your weaknesses?
Answer:
For this answer, focus on a strength. Most strengths taken to the extreme become weaknesses. State the weakness but turn it into a strength, so that it becomes a positive, for example, being conscientiousness. Another way to answer this question is to explain how you had a weakness, for example, time management and how you took action to overcome it and now it’s one of your strengths.
Job Interview Questions:
Tell me about yourself.
Answer:
Prepare a short answer that takes no more than 2-3 minutes to answer. Highlight areas that you’d like the interviewee to ask you about further. Include appropriate education, work experience and significant achievements and successes.
Job Interview Questions:
Why should you be appointed rather than an internal candidate?
Answer:
To answer this question, preparing around four strengths and discuss how you can bring your skills and experience to the job role.
Job Interview Questions:
How would you describe your management style?
Answer:
Have a well thought-out answer ready for all these questions. For this answer, you might briefly say how your style has developed with your experience. Highlight your flexibility and adopting different styles for different tasks and people. Always relate your answers to the job you are applying for.
Job Interview Questions:
Why do you want to work for us?
Answer:
Your research will pay off here. Thoroughly research the organisation you are going to, don’t just look at their website, look at their competitors, read the related press and gain as much information about them as possible. Discuss how important work is to you and your hope that some of these needs
will be met.
Job Interview Questions:
What are your ambitions?
Answer:
Focus on your desire to do the job well and to develop your skills and confidence. Ensure you are realistic if discussing future ambitions. Answer clear and concisely about taking responsibility and progressing your career within the company when the time is appropriate.
Job Interview Questions:
What were the circumstances of you leaving your last employer?
Answer:
Keep your reply short and don’t communicate anything negative, such as bitterness or complaints about your previous company. Focus your answer on wanting to develop yourself, build on your skills and taking on more responsibility in a more demanding job role.
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