Questions about interview? Part 1 of 2

You should pass an interview with the employer. It is the most important stage of getting a desirable post which results have crucial importance.

What will you be asked?

How to make the best impression and to win over your competitors?

What you should speak about and ask?

How is it necessary to be dressed, to brush the hair and be decorated?

How to find an individual approach to the employer and to make him like you?

How to find a way out from inconvenient situations?

What criteria of the estimation of the candidate plays the main role?

How to finish conversation correctly and to say goodbye?

You will get answers to these and other important questions in this article.

Let's consider the first.

The structured interview

Interviews are carried out in a free form and as structured interview with standardized questions.

The purpose of the interview is the estimation of your professionally important business and personal qualities.

Foreign experts in the field of selection of the staff for many years of work have formulated and have selected more than 400 questions of the structured interview. However in practice an interview includes, as a rule, no more than 15 - 20 basic questions and 10-20 additional.

The basic questions and desirable answers:

Question 1. Tell a little about itself.

Mistake - formal and dry statement of your biography, more or less similar at different candidates, excessive excitement or the underlined indifference, confusion in simple facts, stresses on insignificant details, verbosity.

It is necessary to lay out the advantages before other candidates similar to you at once (experience of successful work, special achievements in the professional area, natural abilities etc.), emphasizing the desire and full readiness to get this position. Speak quietly, confidently, briefly and precisely.

Question 2. How do you see your life: what complexities you see in it and how you cope with them?

Mistake - gloomy perception of the reality: complaints to destiny, bad luck, injustice and constant unsoluble problems, accusation of all of other people and external circumstances.

It is necessary to express life positively: life without problems does not exist, difficulties are surmountable, the destiny and career of the person is in his hands, people are benevolent and ready to cooperation, failures will mobilize forces.

Question 3.What attracts you in this position?

Mistake - standard phrases: "This interesting job attracts me... Prospects of growth... Good salary ".

It is better to give concrete reasons that only this post will allow you to realize your abilities, knowledge and experience.

Question 4. Why do you consider yourself worthy to hold this position? What are your advantages over other candidates?

Mistake - weak arguments of your advantages, the indication of formal biographical particulars.

It is necessary to show your "trumps" without false modesty if you have not made it till now.

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