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Find below a list of questions that you could be asked whilst at interview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warm-up questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • What made you apply for this particular position?<\/li>
  • Briefly, how would you summarise your work history & education?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Work history<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Can you describe for me one or two of your most important accomplishments?<\/li>
    • How much supervision did you receive in your previous job?<\/li>
    • Describe for me one of your biggest disappointments in your current job?<\/li>
    • Why are you leaving your current job?<\/li>
    • What\u2019s important to you in a company, and what things do you look for in a new organization?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Job performance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      • What are your strong points for this job?<\/li>
      • When you\u2019ve been told, or discovered yourself, a problem in your job performance, what have you typically done? Can you give me an example?<\/li>
      • Do you prefer working alone or in groups?<\/li>
      • Starting with your last job, tell me about your achievements that were recognised by your manager?<\/li>
      • What things you would like to avoid in a job and why?<\/li>
      • What would you say is the most important thing you are looking for in a job?<\/li>
      • What were some of the things about your last job that you found most difficult to do?<\/li>
      • What are some of the problems you encountered in doing your job? What do you usually do about it?<\/li>
      • What are some things you particularly liked about your last job?<\/li>
      • How do you feel about the way you were managed?<\/li>
      • If I asked your present or most recent employer about your ability, what would they say?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        • What aspects of your education or training have prepared you for this opportunity?<\/li>
        • What courses have been of most help to you in doing your present job and why?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Career goals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          • What is your long-term career objective?<\/li>
          • What kind of job do you see yourself doing five years from now?<\/li>
          • What do you feel you need to develop in terms of skill & knowledge to be ready for that opportunity?<\/li>
          • How does this job fit in with your overall career goals?<\/li>
          • What would you most like to achieve if you were offered this position?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Self-assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            • What are your three greatest strengths?<\/li>
            • And what are your three greatest weaknesses?<\/li>
            • What kind of things do you feel most confident doing?<\/li>
            • Can you describe for me a difficult obstacle you have had to overcome?<\/li>
            • How would you describe yourself as a person?<\/li>
            • What do you think are the most important characteristics a person must possess to become successful?<\/li>
            • What do you consider to be your greatest achievements to date? Why?<\/li>
            • What things frustrate you the most? How do you usually cope with them?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              Creativity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              • Can you think of a problem you\u2019ve encountered when the old solutions didn\u2019t work & you came up with a new one?<\/li>
              • What kind of problems have people recently called on you to solve? How did you solve them.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                Decisiveness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                • Do you consider yourself to be thoughtful, or do you usually make up your mind up quickly? Give an example.<\/li>
                • What was your most difficult decision in the last six months? What made it difficult?<\/li>
                • How do you go about making an important decision?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                  Range of interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  • Tell me specifically what you like to do outside of work?<\/li>
                  • How do you keep up with what\u2019s going on in your industry?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                    Work standards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    • What are your standards of success in your current position?<\/li>
                    • In your position, how would you define doing a good job?<\/li>
                    • If you were to manage the performance of another individual, what factors would you look for?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                      Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                      • What approach do you take in getting your co-workers to accept your ideas?<\/li>
                      • How would you implement a specific change in the organisation?<\/li>
                      • How would you get co-workers who don\u2019t want to work together to establish a common approach to a problem?<\/li>
                      • How would you describe your basic leadership style? Give specific examples of how you practice this?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                        Flexibility<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                        • What was the most important idea or suggestion you received at work and what happened as a result?<\/li>
                        • What was the most significant change made by your company in the last six months that directly impacted you, and how successfully did you adapt to this change?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                          Self-development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                          • What or who has been the most important event or person in your own self-development?<\/li>
                          • What kind of books & publications do you read?<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-350","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenaclarke.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}