jasper
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Twenty Commonly Asked Interview Questions
These questions may be familiar to you. Interviewers ask them to assess intelligence and attitudes, get information, and gauge communication abilities and to see how you think. The wise candidate will formulate brief, articulate responses, which are relevant to their own experience and philosophy and review them just prior to going to the interview.
Because you have done your homework, you know exactly why you want to work there. Organise your reasons into short, hard-hitting sentences. Stay positive – discuss the positives of the company, not the negatives of your current employer.
This is one of the first questions interviewers ask. Stay brief, stay positive and stay focussed. If your present position has become routine, indicate that you feel the need for more challenge. Handle interpersonal conflicts carefully. You don’t want to come across as a malcontent or a troublemaker.
Don’t embark on a lengthy review of your CV. The interviewer already knows that material. Instead, emphasise your common ground: You have the qualifications the company needs to help them succeed; your work philosophy and the company’s are the same.
Give a truthful, but brief answer like “The challenge”, “The future”, “The environment”, “The competitiveness”. These responded will force the hiring official to probe more deeply and to give you another opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the company.
By all means “Yes”! Ambitious, hungry people are always preferred over those who are content to stay in one place. If you feel this response is threatening to the interviewer, add “When I am judged to be qualified” or “If an opening should develop at the appropriate time”.
This is probably being asked because the company intends to relocate you at some point in the future. If you answer “no”, you may not be hired. If your answer is “yes”, understand that once you are a trusted employee, you may not be able to exert any type of leverage to avoid those less desirable assignments.
Be human. Admit that not everything comes easily. However, watch what you do say. “I have trouble deciding how many drinks to have at lunch” can be interpreted negatively. Try to stay positive. “I find it difficult to decide which of two employees must be let go” reiterates that you have had hiring/ firing authority, and are compassionate as well.
Never apologise for yourself. Something like “I think I have done well, but I need new challenges and opportunities”. This says several positive things about you and your attitude about your career.
A reasonable response would be “as long as I continue to learn and grow in my field.
This is best answered with some degree of self-effacement. No one wants to believe that they’ve hit their peak already. Words to the effect that, “I believe I have always tackled assignments with all my talent and energy” indicates a consistent level of excellent performance.
These questions may be familiar to you. Interviewers ask them to assess intelligence and attitudes, get information, and gauge communication abilities and to see how you think. The wise candidate will formulate brief, articulate responses, which are relevant to their own experience and philosophy and review them just prior to going to the interview.
1. Why do you want to work here?
Because you have done your homework, you know exactly why you want to work there. Organise your reasons into short, hard-hitting sentences. Stay positive – discuss the positives of the company, not the negatives of your current employer.
2. Why do you want to change jobs?
This is one of the first questions interviewers ask. Stay brief, stay positive and stay focussed. If your present position has become routine, indicate that you feel the need for more challenge. Handle interpersonal conflicts carefully. You don’t want to come across as a malcontent or a troublemaker.
3. Why should I hire you?
Don’t embark on a lengthy review of your CV. The interviewer already knows that material. Instead, emphasise your common ground: You have the qualifications the company needs to help them succeed; your work philosophy and the company’s are the same.
4. What interests you most about this position?
Give a truthful, but brief answer like “The challenge”, “The future”, “The environment”, “The competitiveness”. These responded will force the hiring official to probe more deeply and to give you another opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the company.
5. Would you like to have your Boss’s job?
By all means “Yes”! Ambitious, hungry people are always preferred over those who are content to stay in one place. If you feel this response is threatening to the interviewer, add “When I am judged to be qualified” or “If an opening should develop at the appropriate time”.
6. Are you willing to go where the company sends you?
This is probably being asked because the company intends to relocate you at some point in the future. If you answer “no”, you may not be hired. If your answer is “yes”, understand that once you are a trusted employee, you may not be able to exert any type of leverage to avoid those less desirable assignments.
7. What kinds of decisions are most difficult for you?
Be human. Admit that not everything comes easily. However, watch what you do say. “I have trouble deciding how many drinks to have at lunch” can be interpreted negatively. Try to stay positive. “I find it difficult to decide which of two employees must be let go” reiterates that you have had hiring/ firing authority, and are compassionate as well.
8. How do you feel about your progress to date?
Never apologise for yourself. Something like “I think I have done well, but I need new challenges and opportunities”. This says several positive things about you and your attitude about your career.
9. How long will you stay with the company?
A reasonable response would be “as long as I continue to learn and grow in my field.
10. Have you done the best work you are capable of doing?
This is best answered with some degree of self-effacement. No one wants to believe that they’ve hit their peak already. Words to the effect that, “I believe I have always tackled assignments with all my talent and energy” indicates a consistent level of excellent performance.
Mum has helped me put some more stuff in there, with some of my older hobbies, and saying my aims for next year with my cycling. 
part time stuff! xD ]
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