Typical interview questions and recommendations to the candidate
(I continue to share my experience in finding work from here to there)
As you know, job search is a job in itself, a complex and multi-stage process. In order to successfully go to the very end and get the desired job, you should understand each of the stages well: from searching for vacancies, writing a resume and matching letters to negotiations on the topic of salary. Understanding, in turn, will allow you to prepare well, which means working more efficiently. As they say, it’s hard to heal - it’s easy in the coffin.
Of course, the culmination and defining moment of the process is the interview, or, as it is now called in a Western manner, an interview . Still, the term “interview” seems to me more appropriate, since this type of communication involves questions from bothparties: the employer and the applicant for the vacancy. I’ll tell you about the questions for the employer that the candidate for the position should prepare some other time, but here I would like to give examples of real questions that my recruiting agent recommended that I prepare before meeting with the future (already) employer.
I want to say right away that these issues are not related to the subject matter, but, let’s say, are general. It is clear that their personnel officers are asking, and no matter how silly these questions may sound, they need to be answered in order to go to the next level. In one form or another, they came across to me at all my meetings about employment. Below are the questions themselves, as well asrecommendations of the agent translated from French.
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I recommend that you consider these questions and prepare examples from your personal and professional experience that could support your answers to these questions. Examples are SPECIFIC when you have had to deal with problem situations, difficult clients, or when you happen to solve technical issues in a short time, etc.
Try to give clear and precise answers that are as informative as possible.
It is very important that they (company representatives) feel that you are able to communicate with others - colleagues and clients, to convey information to them; that you are versatile, flexible, motivated, dynamic; that you can solve problems in a stressful environment; that you are an honest, serious employee and that you are determined to work in the company for a long time.
SMILE during the interview and be DYNAMIC and INTERESTED. Do not forget to turn off your mobile phone, be on the spot about 10 minutes before the interview, monitor your appearance (suit, tie), take your resume with you, as well as a pen and paper.
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All these questions are clear as day, and the recommendations are obvious, and we have heard them more than once, but from that they did not cease to be relevant. One of my good friends, a pot-bellied and bald Jew, who is now the general director of the regional branch of one large Russian company, at the interview to the question “Who do you see yourself in five years?” Answered: “a slender blond”. So do not forget to remain yourself! Good luck at the interview!
As you know, job search is a job in itself, a complex and multi-stage process. In order to successfully go to the very end and get the desired job, you should understand each of the stages well: from searching for vacancies, writing a resume and matching letters to negotiations on the topic of salary. Understanding, in turn, will allow you to prepare well, which means working more efficiently. As they say, it’s hard to heal - it’s easy in the coffin.
Of course, the culmination and defining moment of the process is the interview, or, as it is now called in a Western manner, an interview . Still, the term “interview” seems to me more appropriate, since this type of communication involves questions from bothparties: the employer and the applicant for the vacancy. I’ll tell you about the questions for the employer that the candidate for the position should prepare some other time, but here I would like to give examples of real questions that my recruiting agent recommended that I prepare before meeting with the future (already) employer.
I want to say right away that these issues are not related to the subject matter, but, let’s say, are general. It is clear that their personnel officers are asking, and no matter how silly these questions may sound, they need to be answered in order to go to the next level. In one form or another, they came across to me at all my meetings about employment. Below are the questions themselves, as well asrecommendations of the agent translated from French.
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- What do you know about our company? (Check out the company’s website and collect key information such as history, size, business profile, corporate values, etc.)
- Why do you want to work in our company, and not with one of our competitors or some other company?
- Tell us briefly what the job is for the position you are applying for.
- Why do you consider yourself an ideal candidate for this position?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- What are your professional career goals? Who do you see yourself in 5 years?
I recommend that you consider these questions and prepare examples from your personal and professional experience that could support your answers to these questions. Examples are SPECIFIC when you have had to deal with problem situations, difficult clients, or when you happen to solve technical issues in a short time, etc.
Try to give clear and precise answers that are as informative as possible.
It is very important that they (company representatives) feel that you are able to communicate with others - colleagues and clients, to convey information to them; that you are versatile, flexible, motivated, dynamic; that you can solve problems in a stressful environment; that you are an honest, serious employee and that you are determined to work in the company for a long time.
SMILE during the interview and be DYNAMIC and INTERESTED. Do not forget to turn off your mobile phone, be on the spot about 10 minutes before the interview, monitor your appearance (suit, tie), take your resume with you, as well as a pen and paper.
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All these questions are clear as day, and the recommendations are obvious, and we have heard them more than once, but from that they did not cease to be relevant. One of my good friends, a pot-bellied and bald Jew, who is now the general director of the regional branch of one large Russian company, at the interview to the question “Who do you see yourself in five years?” Answered: “a slender blond”. So do not forget to remain yourself! Good luck at the interview!