Tips to survive the tactics of the delicate job interview and help you prepare.
Read books, research, planned contingencies, and human resources managers and line manager impressed; you've earned to arrive at a level as the advanced job interview. You are now in the final! The ring of the lion, the personally to an employer who must decide whether you really are as perfect as you seem to be, and you are definitely in line with the position. However, in most job interviews based on the behavior, you will not even be aware of the behavior verified or tested by the interviewer.
It shows you a few questions / tactics to predict in an interview, especially hard when the employer finds it difficult to identify if you are really the appropriate profile for the position, or if you simply learned by heart the
Great Book of maintenance.
1. Silence
The silence of the interview is not an opportunity to chat and have fun. This is actually a tactic used by any employer thought prudent for you to fall into the trap. Do not break the silence and, above all, do not lose your cool. Stay loose and relaxed, keep your friendly attitude until the employer has broken the silence. Your contact person will respond to nonverbal cues from you, just as your words, your tone and your speech.
2. Tell me a little about yourself
Focus on the professional side and personal characteristics that are closely related to the post. This is not an opportunity to claim to love football then you do not know even the number of players in a team, the selection has won the last World Cup or the rules of the game do not reveal intimate information having nothing to do with your life and may hinder your chances of success. The employer gives you a real opportunity here to sell you and spread your traits, your achievements and success stories directly related to the post. Emphasize why you are doing there and reiterate your interest in the position, reaffirm why you're the most qualified candidate for the position. Support your assertions with concrete examples and positive of your own experience to highlight your skills, abilities and merits. It, Furthermore, shows that you understand the requirements of the position and give the best picture possible for you to pick up that post with your goals, interests, strengths, skills and previous work.
3. Tell me a story
At this point, the interviewer is not interested in pop culture, or by the latest blockbusters. He is only fascinated in its financial result and find the best candidate that can increase it while being an employee friendly and welcoming focus on your motivations and aspirations of this interview. Try to formulate a question as to return the conversation to the point most relevant to your career. A question like "What do you know?" I can get closer to the goal, but the interviewer will certainly be more intelligent. Offer subsequently "Can I talk about my motivations for this position and the reasons for which I am sure to be the most suitable candidate for this position," then continue with an emphasis on passion and sincerity with which supports your position.
4. Why should I hire you?
This question, slightly irritating, may occur in the final stage of the interview when you think you are on the brink of your goal, as it can be used as a shock at the beginning of the interview. Do not be discouraged or frustrated so far, take the opportunity to convince your interviewer that you are, no doubt, qualified for the position. At this point, with your homework, you will be able to understand exactly what the employer is looking for in terms of skills, strengths, values, history and cultural appropriateness. Align your goals and interests with those of the employer and emphasize your commitment to excel in your responsibilities and to achieve the objectives. Demonstrate commitment, enthusiasm and vitality without appearing arrogant or conceited, and above all be sincere. Thus, the employer will feel your truthful and honest interest for the position and determination to excel beyond expectations.
5. With what kind of people do you have difficulty working?
Every workplace has its own personalities and profiles, and it is more difficult to work with some and not others. Do not designate names to generalize or to praise your ideal team. Show that you are tolerant, flexible, relaxed and able to familiarize yourself with anyone and resolve conflicts in a professional and productive. Express your belief that everyone participates with its own skills, strengths and experiences, you like to face the challenge of working with new people; you appreciate the differences, interaction, exchange of ideas, feedback, support and vitality in a work team effective collaborator.
6. How do you handle stress?
Stress is an inherent aspect of life, and the employer wants to see you aware of this and capable of manage it effectively. Show that you take the time to think before acting, and without losing your cool you are able to control any situation before it takes excessive dimensions. Name a particularly stressful project you were responsible and how you managed to reduce the level of stress due to good planning, organization and time management. Affirm that you have your own tools for managing and eliminating stress, be it yoga, jogging, mediation night, swimming, meeting friends, or any other sport, leisure or business offering a positive image of the person you are balanced.
7. What was your biggest failure?
This is clearly an opportunity to talk to yourself out of the professional setting, so be very careful and avoid having to state a failure of any consequence of the position. Choose a relatively insignificant event occurred at the beginning of your career, use it to demonstrate your skills in corrective action, and have learned a lot from this experience, in order to facilitate direct your potential to contribute to the post question. You can, for example, include a training program in which you participated as wanted, but you were not accepted, then you have made the decision to pursue your own line of training that currently seems more rewarding and more relevant to your career. You can also talk about a lost account at the beginning of your career because of experience, about the corrective actions taken, lessons learned, the inclusion of advice and guidance from your supervisor or mentor, to final return to the account which later became one of your best customers.
8. What do you need to your success?
The interviewer wants to check at this stage that you are a successful business through your answer. He is also interested in your value system and character. What are some values that are very precious to you, such as honesty, integrity, character, discipline, and affirm that you are a "player" dynamic, ambitious, has always demonstrated persistence, organization and discipline in the definition and objectives? Do not be arrogant or presumptuous in answering this question; however, and avoid talking endlessly because it is also a matter of "appreciation." Remember to assign a part of your success to great people you have had the honor of working with your manager, supervisor, teacher, colleague, or a group of people.
9. Talk about a situation where you were faced with an unprecedented problem?
This question tests your analytical and problem solving, your ability to think about as you seconding, to solve a particular dilemma, the fully identify and formulate the means and methods of resolution in an extraordinary way. This issue is related specifically to start up or divisions, roles, positions requiring counseling and exploring fresh fields of action and the design of new systems, procedures and operating systems. You must be creative, clarity of mind, confidence in your analytical and problem solving, and willingness to take risk and create your own experience.
10. How do you deal with difficult customers?
Give an example of a difficult client with whom you had to work and describe how you have maintained the relationship and have made profitable by listening to customers, meeting its needs, interests and constraints, making the careful monitoring, maintaining high professional standards and by preventing your pride hinder your efforts. Choose an example where you were really able to make the situation advantageous to all parties.
11. What was your greatest achievement?
Choose a significant success story and show how it has simply influenced your potential for success in the new position. Press the facts as much as possible with data. You can talk about winning the most important consideration in the sector if it is relevant to the position in question, or about your relationships with your customers and unparalleled record of customer retention, or about to go beyond the objectives ambitious with perseverance, customer care, effective communication and collaboration homogeneous. Show how you have mobilized the resources and approvals, to accomplish the achievements and successful track without losing sight of either the general or detail, and effectively address the various challenges.
12. What is your ideal working environment?
Emphasize your flexibility and your ability to be productive, enthusiastic and effective in any environment. This is not the occasion to require the office overlooking a panoramic view nor the policy behind closed doors. Versatility is the key word working environments of today, and you are asked to demonstrate your ability to focus on your responsibilities and you "fit" well in spite of external factors, whether people environment, the team dynamics, entertainment or the general level of activity in the workplace. Give examples where you have excelled in working environments just tolerable while keeping your enthusiasm. Show that you love the challenge to adapt to a new position and that of your experience, you are able to adapt immediately to any environment.
