Shortlisted for a job and scheduled for an interview? It’s reason enough to be excited and even overjoyed, especially if all you’ve gotten from other companies where you’ve applied is a letter of regrets. Unless you’ve received and signed a job offer, though, nothing’s official yet. Before anything else, you need to concentrate on the job interview process.
Understand the following job interview process and turn them to your advantage:
1. Smart & discerning interviewers are alert for red flags during the job interview process. Examples may be frequent job hopping or large gaps in employment. Being overqualified, or conversely, under qualified, may also work against the applicant. Recruiters who want to make a quality decision when hiring sales personnel will ask pointblank why an applicant with no selling experience whatsoever would want to go into selling. Lack of focus on previous jobs held, which the potential interviewer may glean during the job interview process or through a background check, is another red flag.
2. Aside from giving special attention to red flags, today’s recruiters will also probe or try to dig deep into the interests and abilities of applicants to relate with higher-ups & co-workers. Most interviewers will seek to know just how interested an applicant is in the job. When the interviewer asks the applicant, for instance, how his/her job search is coming along until the present, the reply may show if the applicant hasn’t been looking for a job (until the opportunity offered by the firm presented itself).
3. There are also so many trick questions. When the job interviewer inquires about the applicant’s least favorite position and what the role of that applicant’s boss in the situation, the person asking may simply be looking at how the applicant could objectively view certain circumstances. A good answer may be to cite a certain boss (but avoid badmouthing that boss) and how working with that person may have been the most challenging. The applicant could say something like “We had different styles of approaching a situation. My former boss always wanted to put out fires, whereas I was the type who sought solutions to potential problems way in advance. After a while, it became tiring and took the fun out of working everyday.”
4. Aside from trick questions, the job interview process is also not complete without the classic interview questions. Most applicants anticipate, for example, the classic job interview question: “Where do you see yourself five years from now?” A good answer to this question may be that an applicant wants to concentrate on honing his/her customer service skills and that he/she would be interested to know what the company can provide five years down the line. The applicant may then follow it up with a line that conveys he/she is open to improving and adding value to the organization in the way the company sees best.
5. In any case, job applicants are expected to come to the job interview ready to answer & show how they can benefit the organization. There are useful guides on typical (or the type that’ll jolt applicants out of their seats) questions and the best ways to answer them which may come in handy during the job interview process.
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By Anonymous
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