Interview questions

There are a lot of typical interview questions you may find in the internet, but they all separate in groups:

1) Questions about your potential employer (It is easy to get company information by simply typing name of the company in google and then “About us”. You do not need to know smallest details of the company’s history, just some basic stuff – what is their main business, their values, resent news. Remember you don’t want to know more about company than person who interviews you, but you are expected to know some common things.)

2) Questions about your past experience (Here you want to be more specific in giving examples from your past work life. There are many types of questions about you, but mainly they ask – what is your biggest failure/mistake , and what is your biggest success/and how you achieved it. Be careful talking about your mistakes. It is understandable that everybody has his/her failures, what really matters is what you learned from it and how you managed situation/resolved problem created by mistake. Try to think about your working experience when you converted negative into positive. E.g. I lost tender. I learned = I should listen to the client more. I did = continued to keep in touch with client and we won a part of the deal after all.)


3) Questions about job (Usually they sounds like “why we should hire you? Why you think your skills suits the job?... Here you would want to study job description and answer questions based on that. For example job says – every day task is customer support. And then you say – I love working with people, helping them to solve problems. You also may want to think about example to support your answer, like I used to work with that client and she came back because of good relationships we had. Think about your specific strengths that are correspond to the job description. Or if company you are passing interview is big, they may want to ask specific examples from your past work/life experience where you showed similar characteristics as they set for themselves as company’s mission or values. E.g. describe using innovative way to solve problem? How you motivate yourself?)


4) Strange questions (Those questions are designed to see how you react under stress. It does not matter how strange your answer is, as long as it is sounds logical and you can state your point clearly. Examples of those questions are: Why hatch cover is square shape?)

5) Questions to the company (It’s important not only answer the questions but also ask questions. This way you show that you interested in company and job generally. Don’t ask how much you are going to pay me? Maybe more appropriate would be: would I be paid? (I am joking). Seriously the questions would be: what is the structure of the department? What is the biggest challenge of my department?...and etc.



Here are list of link where you can find more quistions to prepare to the interview:

http://www.bradleycvs.co.uk/interview/list-of-interview-questions.htm

http://www.job-interview.net/

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewquestionsanswers/a/interviewquest.htm

http://www.cvtips.com/job_interview_questions_and_answers.html