The Job Interview

Answers

• Strengths
• Identify your key strengths related to job description
• Provide evidence of strength utilization (as demonstrated in major contributions, job success)
• Compare yourself with peers (co-workers, other applicants)
• Pretend you’re the employer, what qualities match job demands.

• Weaknesses - probing
• technical shortcomings (knowledge & skills to perform job)
• interpersonal shortcomings (ability to relate to others)
• personal shortcomings (personal traits that influence your effectiveness)
• Weakness control: turn into positive

Your Questions

• Interview is a two-way process. Prepare questions.
• Managers want to hear intelligent, well-thought questions.
• Company Questions
• What are the plans of the company for the future?
• How would someone with my background fit into the company plan?

• Company Questions
• Is there a career path? Or Where can I go from here, assuming that I perform the job’s responsibilities?
• What is the overall structure of the department where this position is located?
• What are some of the challenges and priorities of the company?

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