Successful interview. Employer interview preparation guide

# Tell us about yourself?

– Start with your education, then briefly describe your career, highlight the main skills and achievements relevant to the job, and indicate the reason for seeking employment. If you are a young professional, talk about your educational projects, extracurricular and volunteer activities, internships, and training. Also, you can add information about your hobby.

# Why do you want this job? or Why do you want to work for us?

– In your response, demonstrate your commitment to the company’s products and services or values. Suggest own ideas and solutions (this is important).

# Why should we hire you?

– Explain what value you will bring to the employer – experience, innovative ideas, new approaches – and how your skills correspond to the job requirements.

# What are your strengths and advantages?

– List those, that correspond to the desired position and were mentioned in the requirements.

# What are your weaknesses?1

– Look at it from the perspective of areas for development and discuss non-critical qualities or competencies for the position. Share why you consider these are ‘weaknesses’, how you are developing these aspects and why.

# What is your uniqueness?

– Remember what your colleagues, friends, and relatives appreciate and like about you. What are you proud of? What are you passionate about?

# What tasks have you solved in your previous job? What were the successes and the positive experience in project implementation?

– Emphasize personal achievements and their benefits for the company or the customer.

# What mistakes have you made or tell about your unsuccessful projects?

– Do not say you have not made any mistakes, provide examples of cases and tell about the experience you have gained, describe what lessons you have learned, how you have corrected the situation.

# How would you start your first working day?

– Get acquainted with the team, get acquainted with the current state of affairs, KPIs, and discuss the priority tasks with the manager.

# How do you resolve conflicts?

– Provide an example of a situation where you successfully resolved a conflict. Remember the win-win strategy, cooperation, and partnership.

# How do you cope with stress?

– Describe what you are doing to cope with stress exactly: sport/singing/art. Demonstrate a healthy way to deal with stress.

# Why are you looking for a job? What should change in your previous job for you to return?

– Talk about desire to increase scale or responsibility, change direction or apply new skills and expand expertise. Avoid negativity towards the previous employer; be prepared to answer questions about the reasons for leaving previous jobs.

# What are your goals for the future?

– Inform about the future associated with working in this company. The main thing in the answer is the realism of the plans and an understanding of what you are striving for.

# How do you spend your leisure time?

– High performers usually have hobbies that show their way of thinking, their ability to switch between tasks, and may also related to the values of the company’s corporate culture. Be careful, do not lie! If you say you like to read books, you should be able to quickly answer what was the last book you read.

# Do you have a dream?

– This question may be asked to learn about the candidate’s values and ambitions or way of thinking. Show sincerity and inspiration. Your honesty, enthusiasm, and passion will help.

# What salary range are you considering?

– Give a salary range, adding about 30% to your last average monthly earnings, while also monitoring the average salary in the labor market for professionals like you.

# Who can recommend you?

– Agree in advance with your previous manager or colleagues the opportunity to share their contacts in case of a request for recommendations (if you have had a positive experience of interaction).