miércoles, 30 de marzo de 2011

Finally, Here's How You Answer Tough Interview Questions!



Linda Matias is a Job-search certified Interview Coach (CIC), Job and Career Transition Coach (JCTC) and Nationality Certified Resume Writer (NCRW) and also the writer of two books. She has also been qualified consultant for Resume writing, interviewing process and career transition areas.

In her paper, Linda described the technique for answering interview questions which are likely to be asked and how they are to be approached. In an interview, some of the questions are tough and hard to tackle. If we follow such a situation, then being aware of the kind of question and where it is coming from could help us to defend ourselves and avoid a uncomfortable situation.

Some of the examples are as follows:

Q. You don't have as much experience for this job. We may have to spend some time with you training you and taking you at a level where we expect the job requirement is. But we have another candidate to whom we don't need to train and spend time with him... so why we would hire you?

Ans. This question demands you to show up your communication skills and show the interviewer that you are a self-starter. Showing that previously you had task in hand and you managed it without any aid would be a good help to tackle this question.

Q. You have been unemployed for a long time. How do you think your skills match up our level of demand?

Ans. This is again a question which may catch you off-guard. The questioner who has found out that you have a gap in your career. Now if we have been upgrading your skills in the time period when we were unemployed it becomes easy to answer. However, if were not covering this time period with any upgrade of skills then this could blow up our interview. To avoid any negative impression it's good to enroll in a program which develop required set of skills so that we could mention them in our Resume (even if we were involved in finding out the different offerings of courses in our area, it's not bad mentioning it in an interview)

Q. I am not sure if you would stick around with this job... what if you decide to move over a new place with in a year because you feel it is boring work now.

Ans. This is relatively easier question to answer because it does give us an opportunity to openly describe our qualities and work skills although the interviewer knows about our work history. Because we have invited for an interview and the person is open to listening, it's a good sign for us as we have a chance to express our qualities which we possess without getting defensive.

Interviewers sometimes ask tough or attacking questions to check our temperament. Simply answer those questions according to their merit. We don't have to be aggressive in tone nor in our stance because it sends a strong negative message to our interviewer and doesn't work out for us in the interview.

For example interviewers are not impressed with the candidate who does not possess the quality of good temperament and self-confidence. They may ask you tough yet reasonable questions, but then they will also consider how do you approach and respond to such type of questions. Getting nervy or embroiled at that crucial stage does not help the cause.

Written by: Bryan W Goldberg