Interviewing Tips
Questions You May be Asked
No one can predict the exact questions an interviewer will ask, but your recruiter
Should be able to give you a good idea of the hiring authority's personality and his or her interview demeanor.
The usual suspects:
- Tell me about yourself?
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- Why are you leaving your current employer?
- What kind of salary are you expecting?
The following is a list of sample questions that you should be prepared to answer during an in-depth interview. Being prepared to answer questions of this nature will give you confidence in handling the interview and may even assist you in gaining some insight as to your own career ambitions.
- Why should we be interested in hiring you?
- Does your present employer know you are looking for another job?
- Why have you made so many job changes?
- What interests you about our company and industry?
- What are your three greatest strengths?
- Do you have management potential? Why?
- Are you a good manager?
- What have you liked and disliked most about past jobs?
- What do you think you would like best about this job?
- How important to you is salary versus other aspects of the job?
- What five things have you done in your life (or career) that you are most proud of?
- What does the term "success" mean to you?
- What types of jobs are you looking for?
- If you had your choice of any job at all at this moment, what would that job be and why?
- Tell me about the most/least interesting work that you have done.
- What were your best/worst grades in school?
- What were the characteristics of your best/worst bosses?
- What are your most-liked/least-liked leisure time activities?
- What are your long and short-term financial goals?
- May I call your previous employers? What will they say about you?
- What are your outside interests? For how long?
- What books have you read that have had an impact on your professional life?
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