The interview is like playing tennis: the manager sends the ball in the form of a question, and you hit it in the form of an answer. The ball jumps, and at the end of the game the score is displayed on the scoreboard: "You have been hired."
There are no losers in this game. Even if your candidacy is not suitable, and at the end of the game an inscription appeared on the scoreboard: “Sorry, you have the wrong qualifications,” you still win. After all, using the experience of the interview, no doubt, you can find a place to your liking.
In order not to be penalized or take off points, you should play by the rules. You have done a preliminary study of the company you would like to work for, and you have a general idea of the specifics of its activities. When answering questions, you must clearly fall into the gaming sector of your employer's interests, otherwise there will be an out.
List in your story only those skills and knowledge that are directly related to the responsibilities of the position you are applying for. Do not "load" the interviewer with unnecessary information - he may get the impression that you do not know how to be specific and consistent in presenting your thoughts.
Remember, you are selling a product. And that commodity is your education, your potential, your work experience. According to the rules of trade, sellers always decorate the window. Of course, no matter how beautifully the products are laid out, they will not become better because of this. But isn’t the brightly presented assortment pleasing to the eye?
When talking about your work experience, highlight the best that you have done. However, any professional manager has no doubt that the applicant tells him an embellished version of his work biography.
And so be prepared for the fact that sooner or later he will ask: " Please tell us about your most serious failures and failures ." For an unprepared applicant, such a question is akin to a strongly twisted blow to the very edge of the playing field. What should be the counterattack?
Do not evade a direct answer, absolutely honestly and sincerely tell about your biggest professional fiasco. However, talk about it with a smile on your lips, trying to convey the main meaning to your interlocutor: “Of course, I made mistakes, but it was a very good experience and you won’t fool such a shot sparrow again.”
From the point of view of many managers, such an answer, oddly enough, is one of the best characteristics. After all, firstly, you know how to learn, and, secondly, who does not know that only those who do not risk playing do not lose!
In order to score the maximum number of points in an interview, you need to take a closer look at the game of the personnel manager and learn how to “accept” his most difficult submissions. Here are the top seven most common questions that almost every professional interviewer uses.
1. What types of leaders do you find it easiest to work with, and which ones do you have some difficulty with?
This question is designed to determine your adaptability. In other words, are you ready to give up your habits for the sake of the success of a common cause? For better orientation, remember that leaders can be authoritarian (“I said you do it”), Democrats (“I don’t care how you do it, the main thing is that the job gets done”) and liberal (“let’s discuss how to cope with the problem in the best possible way).
2. Do you know how to pick up a “key” for any person? Give an example from your practice.
This question is about your ability to understand a person, "feel" his problems, establish contact and, in the end, convince.
3. Describe a problem you have encountered in your work lately?
This is where your ability to make decisions and take responsibility for them comes into play. The strategy you are using to deal with the problem is very revealing. It characterizes you as a person who belongs to the type of people who prefer to “clear up the mess” on their own, relying only on their own strength, or to the type who solves problems, motivating and organizing other people for this.
4. Have you ever done more work than was required of you?
In fact, you are being asked about whether you are able to take risks and show initiative, or prefer to hide behind the insecure barriers of well-defined job responsibilities.
5. Have you often had to break the established rules in order to achieve a result?
In this matter, the emphasis is on your talent for balancing between the precise execution of orders and autonomy in making an independent decision. Let's take a classic example. During one of the Russian-Turkish military campaigns, Alexander Suvorov was ordered to retreat, but he decided otherwise. With his very small battalion, he rushed to storm the Izmail fortress and took it. If he had suffered defeat, he would not have been blown off his head, but he risked it. Thus began the career of one of the greatest commanders.
6. You have been placed in a situation in which you need to gain popularity in a new team in order to successfully complete the task, what steps will you take?
The interviewer, offering you this task, wants to find out if you are capable of being a leader, and what specific type of leadership is preferable for you. Some people are able to exercise coordinated leadership only if they are appointed to this position by a higher boss. These are "formal leaders".
Applicants who belong to the “charismatic leaders” cohort have such a strong ability to inspire people that they are able to move a cart harnessed by such a textbook conflict team as a swan, cancer and pike. And, finally, "situational" leaders take the reins of government into their own hands only when a crisis is brewing, and most of the team is in a state of panic.
7. Have you had to master a new field of activity in a short time?
This question is just confirmation of an indisputable fact: the world of modern business is dynamic, it rushes at the speed of delivery, and if you do not have the talent to quickly acquire knowledge and skills, then you will never be able to take a cannon feed.
Filing right through. The eighth and most recent question, with its conciseness and at the same time the force of impact, “knocks down” unprepared applicants: “Describe yourself in three key words .
Time has passed, it is forbidden to think for more than 30 seconds. Your answer should include only three words and no more. Tough conditions, right? In order not to get into trouble, you need to prepare for this issue as carefully as for any other. First, write out a page of paper, trying to give a detailed answer to the question: “Who am I”, and then, gradually narrowing the circle, highlight three main concepts. This way you will learn how to hit the hardest punches.
The result of any game of tennis is unpredictable, and, of course, it will not be possible to prepare in advance for all possible questions. Set yourself up to win anyway: “I don’t know how I will answer, but I’m sure all my answers will be right through.”
The article was prepared specifically for the site shop-ultra.ru
