Interview Tips
Here’s some general interview questions:
- Why are you interested in the job?
- Which technologies have you used or specialities do you have that would be particularly relevant for this job?
- What unique skills can you bring to the organisation?
- What do you know about the company? (i.e. mission, role, target audience)
- What makes you think that you would be good in this role?
- What aspects least appeal to about this role?
- How do you hope to develop in this role?
- What changes would you make if given this job (policies/procedures)?
- Have you experience of this sort of role?
About you
- Tell me about yourself.
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- How do you motivate others?
- Would you describe yourself as a team player?
Previous experience
- What were the key responsibilities in your last job?
- How successful do you feel you were?
- What do you rate as your best achievement to date?
- What is your worst professional failure?
- What did you enjoy most about your previous job?
- What do you do particularly well?
- Can you describe a difficult problem and how you dealt with it?
- Why do you wish to leave your current job?
About the company business sector
- What do you see as the most important current trends in the sector?
- What do you think the impact of recent changes/developments will be?
Scenario
- What would you do if:
- You got behind schedule and there were a variety of jobs needing to be completed?
- You had an important deadline/meeting but were unable to make it into work?