Your experience and skills aren’t enough just alone. To have the job which you dream, you have to reply Human Resources Specialist or employer correctly and personally and effectively. To give such answers, you should prepare for these questions.
Tell me about yourself.
This question is the most used one in the interviews and generally applicants make mistakes in this question. When you come across this question in job interviews, you shouldn’t focus on your life story. Human Resources Department doesn’t want to learn how many sisters or brothers you have or where you live. Human Resources Specialist wants to learn how many years you have experiences, how your work history is, what you learn from your experiences, which departments you have responsibilities, which departments you are well in your work, what you love about your work.
Human Resources Specialists don’t love ordinary answers. “I believe that I will contribute value to your company.” “I trust my skills about your work.” You shouldn’t set such sentences.
Firstly you should be sure that you understand correctly the job description. Then you should mention about your educational background, work experiences and social life as related to that job application.
Why should we hire you?
Are you really suitable for this job? Do you want really to work here? This is one of questions which is asked mostly and gives an opportunity to you introducing yourself. While replying this question, you should be unique and realist. So you shouldn’t set an ordinary sentence like “Because I’m very well in my work.” Instead of such answer, you should give information about your skills and your experiences by overlapping the company’s expectations. Also you should express your expectations.
What is your greatest strength?
When this question is asked to you, you should express your qualification which will set you apart from other applicants. This question is also like a selling question. You should sell yourself with this question to the employer or Human Resources Specialists.
What is your greatest weakness?
While replying this question, the applicant should aware of her/his weaknesses. And she/he should overtake her/his weaknesses. She/he should describe how she/he overtakes from them. The employer or Human Resources Specialists want to learn it. You shouldn’t certainly say that “I don’t have any weakness.” You should be aware of yourself and you express directly. You can give examples of your skills.
Why are you leaving or why have you left your job?
This is a hard question for applicants. Because sometimes we live bad situations in our old workplaces and we cannot express ourselves in new job interviews. But we shouldn’t denigrate your old employer, workplace, job, company, managers. You can say a positive reason to leave from your job. You can say that you improve yourself in your old work and now you want to have a new career.
What are your salary expectations?
To reply this question, you should search about jobs and salaries. You shouldn’t overprice or underprice. You should give a well price for you and also employer.
Why do you want this job?
You can use this question as an opportunity to show your information about company and job. Before interview, you search the company, vision, mission, company culture and also job, and then you can reply it.
How do you handle stress and pressure?
It can be hard questions for you. Because you may have difficult situations in your workplace. What do you do when something goes wrong? You can give an example from your previous job. In this question, you should express clearly and understandably yourself. You shouldn’t be stressed and also excited.
Describe a difficult work situation or a project and how you overcame it.
While you reply this question, you should mention about your skills and capacity upon a success story. Your story should be short, specific and clear.
What are your goals for the future?
This question is asked to learn the applicant’s perspective to the life. You should be ready for it, also should prepare your answer before job interview. You can mention about features which you love about your job and your dreams.
Do You Have Any Question?
If you answer this question as “No, thank you!” you lose the job. If you ask something, you can have a chance to have that job. If you don’t have any idea, you also can send a thank you letter after interview and you add your questions in that letter.
Bonus Question
They are some bonus questions like;
- How do you handle success?
- How do you handle failure?
- Do you work well with other people?
- What can you do better for us than other applicants?
These questions are asked in job interview. And you can be sure that employer or Human Resources Specialists have a reply they want to hear from you. If you are not ready for them, you can be failure so you have to be ready for them. You should read so many times the job application form.
