How to Answer Interview Questions
The process of answering interview questions is complicated and often requires preparation in order to be successful. This blog post will guide you through the basics of how to answer interviewer questions as well as how to avoid common pitfalls.
Consider the following example questions:
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
3. Where do you see yourself in five years?
4. Why should we hire you?
5. Who is your favorite person and why?
6. What is your greatest accomplishment?
This list of questions is fairly common, so you probably won't be surprised by any of them when it comes time for your interview . The majority of interview responses can be broken down into just a few categories including: experience, strengths and weaknesses, career plans and dreams, and personal information. Below are some tips on how to answer each type of question .
------ Experience ------
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
3. Where do you see yourself in five years?
4. Why should we hire you?
5. Who is your favorite person and why?
6. What is your greatest accomplishment?
------ Strengths & Weaknesses ------ 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. What are your strengths and weaknesses? 3. Where do you see yourself in five years? 4. Why should we hire you? 5. Who is your favorite person and why? 6. What is your greatest accomplishment? 7 . What motivates you? 8. What kinds of things do you like to do for fun? 9. What kind of music do you like most? 10. What are your three greatest strengths? 11. What are your three greatest weaknesses? 12 . Why did you choose this school/company/program (when asked about education history)? 13 . If a friend were considering joining this organization, what would you tell him/her? 14 . If you could be any animal, what animal would it be and why? 15 . If you could go anywhere in the world and take anyone with you, where would it be and who would it be ? 16 . How many siblings do you have and how old are they? 17 . What do you consider to be your greatest achievement? 18 . What do you think you will be doing in five years ? 19 . Have you been to any foreign countries? 20.If so, what was your favorite one and why? 21. What is your greatest fear? 22. What is a major problem in the world today, and how would you fix it? 23. How many different jobs have you had and what did they entail, or how long were you at each job? 24 . What made you choose your major/field of study ? 25 . Where do you see yourself in 10 years ? 26 . If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be and why ? 27 . What do you see yourself doing for a living in five years? 28 . What are your three greatest strengths? 29 . What are your three greatest weaknesses? 30 . Why did you choose this school/company/program (when asked about education history)? 31. If a friend were considering joining this organization, what would you tell him/her? 32. If you could be any animal, what animal would it be and why? 33. If you could go anywhere in the world and take anyone with you, where would it be and who would it be ? 34. How many siblings do you have and how old are they? 35. What do you consider to be your greatest achievement? 36 . What do you think you will be doing in five years? 37 . What motivates you? 38 . What kind of things do you like to do for fun? 39 . What kind of music do you like most? 40. What are your three greatest strengths? 41. What are your three greatest weaknesses? 42. Why did you choose this school/company/program (when asked about education history) 43.. If a friend were considering joining this organization, what would you tell him/her? 44. If you could be any animal, what animal would it be and why? 45. If you could go anywhere in the world and take anyone with you, where would it be and who would it be ? 46 . How many siblings do you have and how old are they? 47. What do you consider to be your greatest achievement? 48 . What do you think you will be doing in five years? 49 . If a friend were considering joining this organization, what would you tell him/her? 50 . If you could be any animal, what animal would it be and why? 51 . If you could go anywhere in the world and take anyone withyou ,where would it be and who would it be ? 52. How many siblings do you have and how old are they? 53 . What do you consider tobe your greatest achievement? 54. What motivates you ? 55. What kinds of things doyou like to do for fun ? 56. What are your three greatest strengths? 57. What are your three greatest weaknesses? 58 . Why did you choose this school/company/program (when asked about education history)? 59 . If a friend were considering joining this organization, what would you tell him/her? 60 . Ifyoucould be any animal, what animal would it be and why? 61 . If you could go anywhere in the world and take anyone with you ,where would it be and who would it be ? 62. How many siblings do you have and how old are they? 63. What do you consider to be your greatest achievement ? 64 . What motivates you ? 65 . What kinds of things doyou like to do for fun ? 66. What are your three greatest strengths ? 67. What are your three greatest weaknesses? 68. Why did you choose this school/company/program (when asked about education history) 69 . If a friend were considering joining this organization, what would you tell him/her? 90 . If you could be any animal, what animal would it be and why ?
------ Career Plans & Dreams ------
1. Tell me about yourself. 2. What are your strengths and weaknesses? 3. Where do you see yourself in five years? 4. Why should we hire you? 5. Who is your favorite person and why? 6. What is your greatest accomplishment? 7 . What motivates you ? 8 . What kinds of things do you like to do for fun? 9. What kind of music do you like most? 10. What are your three greatest strengths? 11. What are your three greatest weaknesses? 12 . Why did you choose this school/company/program (when asked about education history) 13 . If a friend were considering joining this organization, what would you tell him/her? 14 . If you could be any animal, what animal would it be and why ? 15 . Ifyou could go anywhere in the world and take anyone with you ,where would it be and who would it be ? 16 . How many siblings do you have and how old are they? 17 .What do you consider to be your greatest achievement ? 18 .
Conclusion
Review your answers. Write down the strengths and weaknesses you mentioned in a notebook or on a piece of paper. When you have completed this, look at it and make sure that you are honest with yourself in answering these questions. If there are any areas (such as career plans) that you did not answer, try to address those as well
This should be enough to get started, but if you wish to pursue more concepts like this one, check out our Making Sense of Your Answers series.
------ The Companies You've Worked For ------
A . Name: 1 . What is your job? 2 . Why did you choose this company? 3 . How long have you worked for this company? 4 .