Interview Questions

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Elsie Too Oct 2015 12:42pm, 6 Oct 2015 1,520 posts	0 Elsie Too Oh - good thinking AL, I like that point
sheri3004 Oct 2015 12:45pm, 6 Oct 2015 18,771 posts	0 sheri3004 My interview for current post was a competency-based interview. This seems to be a thing now. Basically you need loads of examples to prove you can do all the things in the job description. I think it is a helpful model even for interviews which are not specifically of this type. Have lots of specific examples of past achievements to show how great you would be.
Spleen Oct 2015 12:45pm, 6 Oct 2015 1,199 posts	0 Spleen I wish interviewers would stop with the stupid "weaknesses" question. Everyone now knows it's coming and everyone thinks of a "weakness" (or three) that isn't harmful to their ability to do the job and can be made to sound like a strength. It reveals nothing about the interviewee other than that they read the same "how to get through an interview" guides that everyone else did. And it's annoying. No sensible person wants to denigrate themselves to a total stranger. If someone can't type or add up that will be discovered elsewhere in the assessment and if someone is an arsehole that should be brought out elsewhere if the questions are chosen well. Anyway, apropos Hendo, don't go for weaknesses that aren't weaknesses of the "Sometimes I care too much" variety, that's too obvious. Inconsequential and "but I'm working on it" is what they want to hear.
Spleen Oct 2015 12:51pm, 6 Oct 2015 1,200 posts	0 Spleen Elsie Too: The version of the story I was told was of a rugby-loving interviewer at Cambridge University. If you caught the ball you were in, if you dropped the ball you were out, and if you caught and drop-kicked it into the wastepaper basket you got a scholarship. It's obviously apocryphal but I wouldn't be surprised if it has genuinely happened somewhere. It's exactly the kind of imaginative nonsense that certain interviewers come up with because they are bored of asking sensible questions like "why do you want to work here" and "give me an example of something you personally achieved at your last job" (and variants thereof).
Diogenes Oct 2015 1:01pm, 6 Oct 2015 11,270 posts	0 Diogenes I'm not saying the weakness questions are good ones, just that they are likely to be asked. Getting beyond prepared answers is the key,filling in the gaps between what people think you want to hear and how they respond when challenged to think beyond that.
fetcheveryone Oct 2015 1:02pm, 6 Oct 2015 16,524 posts	0 fetcheveryone Can you do any good impressions?
Elsie Too Oct 2015 1:07pm, 6 Oct 2015 1,521 posts	0 Elsie Too Is that how you would recruit your dream team to manage this site fetch?
D2 Oct 2015 1:09pm, 6 Oct 2015 7,239 posts	0 D2 What was it about our company that encouraged you to apply for this post? How would you get to know / enthuse your new team? supplementary question; is it important?
Roberto Oct 2015 1:25pm, 6 Oct 2015 511 posts	0 Roberto First question my friend got asked for a teaching job was ''Cat or dog?''. He answered dog which afterwards they told him was the correct answer.
lammo Oct 2015 1:46pm, 6 Oct 2015 6,225 posts	0 lammo If somebody opened up an interview like that i'd be very tempted to get up and walk out without saying a word.