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08 common Interview question and answers - Job Interview Skills - YouTube
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Hello my name is Niharika. When you apply
for a job and your'e called for an interview,
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there are various questions that are asked
and the better prepared you are, the more
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successful your interview would be. Well,
you might have come across various videos
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online that talk about the most common interview
questions and answers. This video would be
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a little different, because it's not just
about the questions and answers, we are gonna
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talk. I'm also gonna explain that what exactly
the interviewer thinks, when he's asking certain
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questions. What exact answers he's looking at and what are the common mistakes that you usually do.
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The first most common question that is asked
by the interviewer is, So tell me something
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about yourself or he or she might also ask,
that run me through your CV? Now here the
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interviewer is not really interested in your
answer. What they are looking at is your confidence,
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your enthusiasm and the passion that you answer
with. So it's the best time that you show
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off your communication skills. Now usually
I have observed that many people end up saying,
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Ahh I love watching movies, I think I love
partying. I have so many friends, so I really
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enjoy partying. No that's not the right way
that you answer to this question. What you
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need to talk about is your education, where
you grew up or you can also talk about your
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past work experience, if you have any and
your personal interests. For example, you
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can say, Ahh well I grew up in France and
I studied accounting. I also worked for an
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accounting firm for about eight months and
I really enjoy numbers, so maybe that's exactly
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the reason, I love to solve them. Solving
them is so much fun and in my spare time,
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I really like reading and also go out jogging
only if the weather allows me too. So that's
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the way you would answer to this question.
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The second most popular question that is asked
by an interviewer is , What are your strengths?
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Now here the interviewer is looking at how
positive, you think about yourself. It's quite
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a general question, there's no right or a
wrong answer to it, but if you give out one
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liners such as, Oh I'm a very friendly person,
I love being with people and people love being
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with me. That just doesn't sound great for
an interview. Isn't it? So what you can say
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is, My strongest trait is attention to detail.
I totally believe in planning and execution.
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In fact even when I was in college, I used
to really organize my week and many people,
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because of my very outgoing nature. Many people
have said that I am quite approachable, so
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I believe these are my strengths.
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The third most common question that is asked
is, So what are your weaknesses? Here for
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this question, you need not be really negative
about your self. I have heard people saying,
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well I am a very impatient person or people
also say, That I get angry easy. Well, that's
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not the right answer. Maybe that is your weakness,
but you need not bring it out. The best answer
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to this, because what the interviewer is looking
at is whether you can identify your weakness
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and how you can cover it up. So one of the
examples, that you can use to answer this
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question is, I think my weakness is that I
am way too detail oriented. I try to accomplish
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everything and I just want everything to be
perfect, but then I realize that I'm losing
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out on time, so maybe that makes me submitting
these projects pretty late. So I think that
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is one of the weaknesses. So here basically,
what you are doing is, you are displaying
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that maybe, you run out of time, but your'e
also giving a very positive aspect to it that,
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you are a perfectionists. And that' s exactly
what we saw as a strength in the previous
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question too. So I think this is one of the
best ways that you can answer to this question.
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The next common question that is asked is,
Where do you see yourself in five years from
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now or the interviewer might also ask that,
What are your long term or your short term
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goals? Now here, Iv'e seen people really struggle
to answer this question. Well, maybe, because
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you yourself have no idea, where you would
like to be, so usually people end up saying,
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Oh I would like to be the CEO of this company
or I would like to own an airline. That doesn't
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sound right, so what a good answer to this
question would be, because here the interviewer
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is looking at, how committed you are gonna
be to this company? A very clear path with
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commitment, because you know what's the attrition
rate these days. So he wants to know, how
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long would you stick to the company? So one
of the best answers that you can give, would
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be, Well, five years from now, I think I would
like to be in a management position. Till
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then I would like to gain a practical experience
and then eventually become a manager. Of course,
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I would like to share and also learn a lot
of new things from my team members.
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The next most popular question that is asked
is, So tell me something about our company
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or what do you know about our company? Now
here the interviewer of course has knowledge
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about his own company, Right? That he's working
for, but what he is looking at is whether
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you are serious about this job or not? Whether
you have just come for one of those random
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interviews? So many people are usually let
down, because of the lack of research about
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the company, so what you need to do is research.
Go online learn about the positive attributes
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about the company. Learn about their products,
their history and etc. So one of the best
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ways that you can answer to this question
is, Oh well your company is very well known
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for the customer service and you also won
an award for the best service provider in
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the country. And of course, you also have
a great clientele, so that's one of the best
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ways that you can answer this question.
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Sixth most common question that is asked is,
How well do you handle a change? Well, the
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philosophy behind this question is to know,
would you be able to cope up with a change?
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Because usually companies definitely come
up with different strategies, employees come
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and go, so would you be able to handle that?
People usually end up saying, Oh of course,
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I am great at handling a change. Well, trust
me the interviewer would not be impressed
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with this answer. How you can answer to this
question with an example, would be. Well,
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of course I can handle a change, because in
my previous company, one of our bosses, one
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of our immediate bosses had to quit and there
was this new boss, who came in and he had
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completely changed our strategy of a project.
So of course, I'm very flexible and hardworking
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too, so we managed it with our team efforts
and definitely the results were pretty good.
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So this is the way that you could answer to
this question.
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The next common question that is asked is,
How well do you work under pressure? Now the
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reason behind this question is the employer
or the interviewer wants to know that do you
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get really stressed out? Do you get really
panicked under pressure? Because these days
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companies, of course expect you to take more
and more responsibility and of course a greater
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work load. So the best way to answer this
question is, well definitely working under
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pressure or without pressure works just the
same for me. In fact in one of the companies
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that I was working, there was a project that
was given to us, which had to be completed
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in four days. Which usually takes ten days
and the whole team is like so stressed out,
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they panicked and they just didn't know what
to do, but then I insured that they settled
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down . We prioritized our work and in fact
in a very organized manner, we completed the
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project. Of course we also worked late nights,
but that definitely helped to submit our project
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in four days. So I think working under pressure
is not too bad for me. So this is one of the
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best ways that you can answer to this question.
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The last common question that is asked is,
How do you handle important decisions? Now
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the reason behind this question is usually,
If someone or the interviewer is hiring the
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person or hiring you for a management position
or for a lead position. He wants to know that
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someday when you have to handle a very important,
a very critical decision. How would you do
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that? So many people end up saying, You know
what I really haven't come across, I really
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haven't dealt with such difficult situations.
That's not the right answer you would say,
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One of the best answers that I can help you
with is, You can say, Handling decisions is
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definitely considered to be a little difficult,
but I am sure I can do it, because my experience.
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I would rely on my experience, I would also
weigh on the pros and cons. Of course, I would
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also take some advice from my team members
and I'm sure that would help me to come on
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a decision. We will also look at the consequences of the decision.
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So definitely I can go ahead and make decisions.
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So that brings me to the
end of this lesson. I hope all of these questions
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and answers are helpful for your interview.
And if you are going for an interview. Wish
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you all the very best. Do well and I will
see you soon in the next lesson. Take care.
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Thank you.
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