10 Frequently Asked Interview Questions & Your Answers!
- Why do you want to work for this company?
- Show that you have done your research, mention things you really like
- Related to the position of how you align with it
- Be passionate and excited
- How do you deal with pressure or stressful situations?
- Share an instance when you remained calm despite the turmoil
- Discuss how it’s being a continuous journey of improvement and talk about how you’ve learnt with every new experience
- Why do you want to leave your current position?
- Flip the question and talk positively about your current place of work
- But highlight how you wanted a new challenge and to continuously improve all areas of your skill set
- Discuss the importance of the opportunity to improve and take on new challenge
- What sets you apart from other candidates?
- Talk about your top strengths and you relate them back to the role
- Discuss any unique strengths and how you built them
- Even bring in your extensive research about the company
- Tell me a time when you couldn’t meet a deadline and how you decided to handle it?
- Discuss honestly how things didn’t go as you expected
- Share how you reflected on this and learnt a lesson
- Explain how you would have handled it with this new knowledge
- What would you say are your weaknesses and how you improve them?
- Be honest, share actual weaknesses
- Ensure the weaknesses aren’t a core skill of the position
- Show them the action steps you have taken to improve this weakness
- What are the main strengths you’ll bring to us?
- Discuss your main strengths in relation to the role
- Talk about any experiences and how these developed over time
- Share how you think these strengths will directly benefit them
- What is the hardest problem you’ve ever tackled?
- Explain the calibre of the problem and it’s in importance
- Discuss how you approached it despite the difficulty
- Explain clearly how you solved it and the impact it had
- Share an example of when you were working with someone who is difficult. How did you handle working with them?
- Explain how you communicated very clearly with them to ensure nothing was missed
- Share that you went in with empathy as you never know what others are going through
- Discuss the common ground you reached and what you learned from it
- Describe a situation where you had to handle multiple responsibilities.
- How did you manage your time?
- Describe how you were organised and prepared
- Discuss what techniques you used to multitask
- Use a specific example and discuss the impact of the result
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