Typical Interview Questions :
An interview is to judge which candidate is best suited for the position. The employer will design questions giving him information required for the desired post. The following set of questions will help you to make the best presentation for the interview.
The questions are divided in the following sections:
A) Opening Questions
1. Tell me something about yourself?
2. What are your hobbies?
3. Which is your favorite subject? Why?
4. How did you hear about this opening?
5. How did you prepare for this interview?
6. What was the last book you read? Summarize your learning's?
B) Personality Questions
1. What are your strengths?
2. What are your weaknesses?
3. How would your colleagues describe you?
4. How would your boss describe you?
5. How would you describe yourself as a person?
6. Who has influenced you in life? How?
7. Narrate 2 of your achievements?
8. How do you plan to overcome your weaknesses?
9. Can you tell me the toughest decision taken in life?
C) Career Questions
1. What are your career goals?
2. What is your ambition in life?
3. What might make you leave this job?
D) Leadership
1. What according to you is important for a team member?
E) Position related questions
1. What do you know about our company?
2. How can you contribute to our company?
3. Why have you applied for this position?
4. How can you contribute to this position?
5. What do you look for in a job?
6. Why are you looking for a change?
7. Which other positions have you considered applying for?
8. Where do you see yourself 5 to 7 years from now?
F) Decision making Questions
1. Why should we hire you?
2. Do you believe in compromising business ethics to get your work done?
3. Are you ok working for 12 to 15 hrs a day?
4. Who plays an important role in deciding your career?
G) Job Assessment
1. How do you weigh job satisfaction?
2. What might make you leave this job?
3. What is your role in the current job?
4. Why not continue the same job?
5. Describe your ideal job?
6. What kind of people are you able to manage?
H) Concluding Question
1. Would you like to ask any questions?
Questions you can ask the Employer:
- How many employers work in this organization?
- What according to you is the most difficult problem one would face in this position?
- Which is the most successful product of this organization?
- On what parameters is once success measured in this company?
- What will be my salary package?
The above questions are only interview guidelines. Some of the questions may not be appropriate for your interviewing situation.
Most frequently asked Interview Questions
- Why have you selected to join us?
I always longed to work with a company. I am familiar and whose products I have used and trusted.
(Narrate briefly how you can prove your statement. Do good research on the company before facing the interview) - Where do you want to be in 5 years?
I would like to be frank. Judge me from the work and I am sure you will put me right where I want to be.
Note : Do not over ambitious and speak in a way that you are not satisfied with your current job which you have applied for. - Describe your ideal career?
Talk of what you enjoy most your skills and natural talents. Do not specify your goal and any job title. - Tell me something about yourself
Do not just repeat what you have given in your resume. Be ready with the answer, a talent or something you did out of the ordinary. You can sound it as unique or give it a touch of your personality. - How did you apply for the job?
Be specific and give a straight answer of how you came to know about the vacancy. If it was advertised specify how you came across it. - Why do you want to work here?
Have a research done about the company / organization
Give just one or two reasons why you are interested. You can add these points (1) company's reputation(2) desire to join the specific field of interest. - Don't you think that you are over qualified for this job?
(This question is put to you to puzzle a candidate. Be calm and answer the question with a positive and confident approach)
Answer in the negative
My experience and qualification will just help me to do the job better. Moreover I am at establishing a long term relationship which my qualification will favor me to handle more responsibilities and help me to rise to your expectations. - What competition do you see if you take up this job?
When you answer, clearly show that you have researched carefully and acquired more in-depth knowledge about the company.
Enumerate some positive and negative traits of the company and their competitions.
Feel confident to show that competition is not an unexpected one. - What would you do if our competitor offer you a job?
Show your confidence in the company's worth, stress the point 'I would say No' by pointing out some qualities you found out in your research about the company. - Why are you leaving your current job?
You should give two or three reasons for leaving.
Lack of challenge, focus on the limitations etc. Point out your ambition to prove your worth confidently. - What salary do you expect?
(This is a tricky question to be answered carefully. Interviewers often accept people with realistic financial goals.)
If you mention a salary that is low it shows that you are not up to the mark. If you mention too high you have ruined a chance to get a job. So the best is to ask for the salary they offer and then show your capacity, how your experience and qualification rate with what is offered. - What interests you most about the job?
(Show how you believe that you are most suited to the post. If you can find out an earlier experience it would be fine.)
If you have experience, you can quote some similarities from the past and how you achieved success. - What is your dream job?
Make the question a chance to display your aptitude that fits the job you have applied for. Display how your skills can be put into suite the challenges and modern trends. - Why should we take you?
This is often the concluding Question( Some tips to the answer)
- Don'ts : Do not repeat your resume
Do not enumerate your experience - Do's: Prove Your interest
Be positive in your answer
Be prepared with confidence in what you are going to say
Make sure the answer comes from the bottom of your heart.
- If you have unlimited time and financial resources how would you spend them
Even though it is tempting to discuss thing you would do for fun, answer these questions with strict coherence with the job you have applied for.
Egg: If you are into teaching, touch on your interest in adult literary programmers and other teaching oriented aspects. - How is your experience relevant to this job?
Sketch out some similar work which you have done in your previous job. It should be something justifiable by you, even though others may think differently.
You can even ask some question where you can prove that your experience stands in good strand. - How could you enrich your current job?
Design your answer to show that you are still interested in the job and you point out a few instances where improvements can be made. Convince the person that you can be relied on and you will not get bored with what you do with time. - How many days where you absent from work?
Give a solid attendance record. But at the same time show you were not responsible . Convince that you are willing to take up responsibility.
Egg: I was absent 7 days. 4 days due to conjunctivitis and one day due to the death of a close relative and 2 days had to accompany my parents for their check up. - Tell me about a time you had to deal with an irritate customer, how did you handle the solution?
The question is aimed at you to hear from yourself how you handle people when others loose their temper. Here the best answer you can give to describe a situation and show how you handled it with maturity and diplomacy. - How do you manage stress in your daily work?
You can describe a situation of how you had managed stress in your previous work if you had one or narrate how you can find time in your busy schedule to relax a bit. - Describe a professional skill you have developed in you?
It will be better if you be specific with your answer. Narrate some thing you worked for to fulfill your work more efficiently. Describe how you attended a seminar and brought about the changed in your work. - How do you manage your work to meet dead lines
Answer the question effectively . Describe in detail how your plan out, set priorities, determine schedules, how you follow out to see the progress and meet the dead line. - What books you read?
Do not ever say you have read a book which you have not. Here your suggestion can lead the interviewer to know your taste and interest. It can also hint on how you take your profession. - What are the most rewarding aspect of you most recent job?
The best way to answer it is to focus in what you do efficiently, keep in mind the position you are applying for. - What aspects of this job do you feel most confident?
Narrate what you are good and match it with the present job requirements. You may ask questions to clear if that particular skill will add benefit to the company - What can motivate you?
The Interview expects an answer to know you better .Keep in tune with your job and work you have applied for. Do not beat around the bush. - Whom do you choose as your reference and why?
Name the references and how you know them. You can also show that you are a person who care for relationships and how you stand in good stead with them. - Can we call all your references?
If you have given your present boss as your reference you can tell that you prefer to call your current boss only after you receive a confirmed offer as he may not like you changing the job. - Do you have any questions?
Be prepared to answer this question in advance. List out a few questions you wish to know more about. After you have faced the interview your logic will guide you to ask the question you really want to know more about. - How do you handle criticism
Here the interview is on the look out for your accountability and professional character.
Simply explain a situation that caused a problem and narrate how you faced it and overcame it. - Tell me about a situation that upset you at work
Her the interview is trying to find out how you deal with pressure. Be diplomatic and objective with your answer. Prepare the answer so that the answer comes as a smooth reassurance - Have you ever been fired?
If the answer is negative, the answer is simple. But if you have been fired, you need to be prepared to the answer the follow up questions that my come up.
If the termination was for reason beyond your control narrate it. If not do not try justifying yourself. If you had a fault, admit it and convince the interview that you have corrected it. - Do you change your job frequently?
Be honest and if you had changed the jobs frequently there could be ample reasons to do so. Put them up as contracts that expired at the stipulated time.
Be convincing when you say that you long to have a steady and long lasting relationship with the present job you are applying for. - What is the toughest job you had?
Avoid making any negative statements especially about your previous employer. Change the question with a positive outlook and answer it with a satisfied remark of your outcome. - How do you handle tension?
Answer with ease that in any job and any situation that tension is a part of it. Relax before putting the f act you are very used to such type of works. - What is your current salary?
Do not bluff. Be specific on the answer. Do not hesitate to say the benefits you enjoyed in the previous job. It may be verified so never mention the benefits you have not got. - Will you be willing to accept transfer?
Tell you preference but do not specify that you will be not willing to work else where. - What is your weakness?
Turn the question to a positive one. Simply say that you are a perfectionist and your commitment to output of high quality perfect work. Say this is your weakness
Introduction :
Challenge- 'a call to try one's skill or strength; a demand to respond or identify oneself.' Yes this is what this section is all about…. proving your strengths and announcing your arrival…. rising above the adversities and showing the world what you are made of.
This section is written keeping in mind the disabled people- people who have a handicap: physical or mental. Some purists out there might not like the words used for the handicap people, but just by giving a different phrase for their impairness the handicap people are not benefiting in any ways. Instead of sitting in the comfort of their home and coining glamorous and fashionable terms, these socialists would do better to do something that would shape the careers of the disable people.
And all you people who suffer from any disabilities- don't let others take pity on you. After all those 'fighting-for- a-cause' are not perfect themselves. The only difference is that, your imperfection is more visible than theirs. So just accept your handicap and do what you believe in. the history is full pf examples of individuals who have stood apart in what they have done, despite of their disability.
Let us share some inspiring stories.
Brilliance personified:
John Nash:
John Nash was a mathematical genius who despite being struck by a disease called schizophrenia, managed to win a Nobel Prize in economics for his work 'Non-cooperative Games', written in 1950 when he was just 21 years young! In 1958 at the threshold of his career Nash was struck by paranoid schizophrenia- a disease in which a person starts imagining and seeing thing and people who are just an illusion. He lost his job because of this illness and was virtually incapacitated by the disease for the next two decades. The disease began to evaporate in 1970s and he returned to what he loved doing the most- mathematics. Nash shared the Nobel Prize in 1994 with John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten for what he described as "his most trivial work"
Helen Keller:
Helen Adams Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in Northwest Alabama, USA. The daughter of Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller she was born with full sight and hearing. But in February or 1882 when Helen was all of 19 months tragedy struck and a mysterious illness took away her power of sight and hearing. Few years later Helen met different people in connection with her handicap. Among them, Anne Sullivan, who herself was partially blind decided to teach Helen. By age 10, Helen had mastered Braille as well as the manual alphabet and even learned to use the typewriter. By the time she was 16, Helen could speak well enough to go to preparatory school and to college. In 1904 she graduated from Radcliffe College. She then dedicated her life to improving the conditions of the blind and the deaf across the world. She lectured on various topics and she became a symbol or grit and determination not just for the blind and deaf, but also for everyone all over the world.
Stephen Hawking:
Stephen was born in 1942. He has been recognized as one of the greatest physicist ever. He was an awkward schoolboy but he knew all the way that he wanted to make a career in science. In 1958 he and his friend built a primitive computer that actually worked. His knowledge about his subject and his talent help him become the member of the Royal Society at a remarkable age of 32. And in 1979, he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the same job held by Sir Isaac Newton 300 years earlier. His discoveries about the black hole and the big bang theory have certainly been hailed as one of the most important breakthrough in science. All this considering the fact that he suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that affects muscle control) for which he uses a wheelchair and speaks through a computer and voice synthesizer.
Face your weakness:
These real life stories have inspired many. The courage and determination of these super humans would put any so-called 'normal' person to shame. I bet there would be thousands of such 'normal' people out there who would love to be in the shoes of these great personalities. And in their stories lie the answers to what you people who suffer from any kind of handicap should as a career.
First of all, and as said earlier, stop pitying on yourself. Then determine your strengths- know for yourself what you are good at and pursue that as your career. Yes, it is as simple as that. But one thing that you should guard against is an obstacle. Don't get bogged down by obstacles. These obstacles may be in form of people not recognizing your skills or failure at certain steps. But as the old saying goes- 'winners never quit and quitters never win.' Never stop believing in yourself. If you start doubting your beliefs, you will start believing your doubts. Author Paulo Coelho has famously proclaimed in his best selling novel, 'The Alchemist': "if you want something badly, the whole world will plot it to give it you". It means that if you pursue something whole-heartedly and commit yourself to it, nothing in the world will come in your path. But you need to be realistic. It is quite obvious that a blind man cannot get a job of a pilot and dumb man cannot get a job of a singer. So stop chasing dreams that are mere dreams. Rather realize what you are good at and commit yourself to it. And success shall follow...............
A FLAME OF PASSION CAN IGNITE DIS WORLD......
REGARDS,
RAHUL
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