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| How To Knock the Employer\'s Dead (Part5) |
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Q. What are your outstanding qualities?
A.An interview is indirectly asking you what's your greatest strengths are. This question asks you to talk about your professional behaviours. now, while you are fortunate enough to have a list of the business world's most desirable professional behaviour, try to do more than just list them. In fact, rather than offering a long 'shopping list', you might consider picking out just two or three and giving illustration of each
Q. What interest you most about this job?
A. Be straightforward, unless you haven't been given adequate information to determine an answer, in which case you should ask a question of your own to clarify. Perhaps you could say, 'Before answering, could I ask you to tell me a little more about the role this job plays in relation to departmental goals?' or Where is the biggest vacuum in your department at the moment? or Could you describe a typical day for me?' The additional information you gather with these questions provides the appropriate slant to your answer - that is, what is of greatest benefit to the department and the company. Career-wise, that obviously has the greatest benefit to you too. Your answer then displays the professional behviours that support the existing need. Your answer in part include, 'I'm looking for a challenge and an opportunity to make a contribution, so if you fee the biggest challenge in the department is X, I'm the one for the job.' Then, include the behaviour and experience that support your statements. Perhaps, 'I like challenge, my background demonstrates excellent problem-solving abilities (give some examples) and I always see project through to the finish.
Q.Why should I give you the job?
A. Your answer will be short and to the point. It will highlight areas from your background that relate to current needs and problems. Recap the interviewer's description of the job, meeting it point by point with your skills. Finish your answer with 'I have the qualification you need (itemize them), I'm a team player, I take direction and I have the desire to make a thorough success of it.
Q.What can you do for us that someone else cannot?
A. This question usually come after a full explanation of the job has been given. If not, qualify the question with, 'What voids are you trying to fill when you appoint someone to this position?' Then recap the interviewer's job description, followed with 'I can bring to this job a determination to see projects through to a proper conclusion. I listen and take direction well. I am analytical and don't jump to conclusions. Finally, I understand we are in business to make profit, so I keep an eye on costs and returns.' End with, ' How do these qualifications fit your needs? or 'What else are you looking for?'
You finish with a question that asks for feedback or a powerful answer. If you haven't covered the interviewer's hot buttons, he or she will cover them now and you can respond accordingly.
Q. How does this job with others you have applied for?
A. This is a variation on more direct questions, such as How many other jobs have you applied for? and Who else have you applied to? but it is a slightly more intelligent question and therefore more dangerous. It asks you to compare. Answer the question and sidestep at the same time: No two jobs are the same and this one is certainly unlike any other I have applied for;
If you ca highlight some of the interviewer's stated pluses about the job so much the better. Remember that first and foremost you are there to get a job offer. You have nothing to evaluate until then.
If you are pressed further, say, Well to give you a more detailed answer, I would need to ask you a number of questions about the job and the company, ' Ask about major projects, who succeeds and who fails and why, how the company encourages professional growth and so on.
To be continued' |
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