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What are some of the best questions for an interviewee to ask during a job interview, in your opinion?

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Question added by azaharuddin sirajuddin , Office Assistant , Drol International Gen Con LLC
Date Posted: 2016/04/21
Eng Ahmed Elsharkawy
by Eng Ahmed Elsharkawy , Civil Engineering Project Manager , Altwijry office

thanks for invition ,,,,,,,,,,

i agree with experts answers

Ghada Eweda
by Ghada Eweda , Medical sales hospital representative , Pfizer pharmaceutical Plc.

From my view , if we really benefit from Bayt's question and answer forum, we won't surprised by any tough question in the interview. However the most common questions asked by employers discussed and presented previously and frequently on Bayt 's community here, just I advice you  to:

1- Prepare yourself well, be self-confident.

2- Get online access to company information before interview time.

3-Take care of your silent body language.

4-Focus on area of skills employers always require e.g. communication and  organization skills.

5-Don't negotiate the salary before being approved.

6-Proud yourself of area of expertise.

 

Go on and good luck.

 

 

Neha Singh
by Neha Singh , RAK , HDFC Bank Ltd. , Weird Logics Pvt. Ltd, Watson Pharma, Max Life Insurance, Tata Consulting Services, Iyogi and Serco etc

What thing will motive you, to stay with organisation for long term.

How you will handle work pressure. 

 

Secrets of the personal interview success

 

preparation

 

The setting is a very important order, you have to search for the company will work out as well as the career turn. You should also know the size of the company and its position in the market and has the potential to grow. Social networks may help in finding look no further and get more information on the topics to be with you the interview as well as other employees of the company.

 

  Focus your interest to know basic information about the company that will operate.

 

Discovered your ground and tried to highlight it and also exploited as much as possible.

 

You should be sure that everything is okay before you go to sleep. Then cried your shirt and your suit dry cleaning as well as cleaning of polishing your shoes, because the morning is the time to prepare mentally and not physically ready.

 

  Res

 

You have to be accurate. If they meet you in the middle of the day, try to arrive between eleven and forty five minutes and eleven fifty-five minutes at noon. If you reach abroad eleven and a half at noon time you can take a tour or that you take a look at your notes and then enter the building. Be very friendly with the reception staff and ask them about their conditions and anything that might respect their work and accept any refreshments offered to you, the talk and marketing to be self-hungry to work.

 

First impressions

 

The self-assurance and confidence be something more pronounced during the handshake by hand, make sure that both steadfast.

 

Eye contact

 

Make sure you look at both of the interlocutors in the interview when they speak and when to stop this is your chance to keep your position and your formatting appropriate.

 

Applicants others to work

 

You may find yourself forced to socialize with other applicants who will be trying to extract them the job. Not afraid of the situation and be open to your interests and your achievements, but do not let them interfere with your secrets and points of actual experiences.

 

Credibility

 

You should During the interview, when faced with a question you do not know to recognize that you do not know the answer to urge that the deception may have a significant adverse results, because the professionalism lies in the honesty and will this credibility met with respect and therefore, you can highlight the shortcomings and weaknesses have also explains other things you know and you can make.

 

 

the background

 

You have to show self-confidence, and when your discussion of the background along with your future plans, take enough time to do them and try to achieve hundred percent (100%) and be relevant to the role it seeks.

 

 

Management style

 

If you are seeking to fill a management position, you need to show confidence and enthusiasm do not criticize your previous work and instead you can do to clarify how you use such as those mistakes that I've seen previous to your business, which I learned a lot through it.

 

Enthusiasm

 

That wonderful smile of a role where he can help stunningly, quiet fact that you broke the length of time to understand that he had misunderstood the weaknesses and deficiencies you trust yourself and you certainly do not want that to happen.

 

Talked about the search as a signal from you to your knowledge and you are aware of and addressed the interlocutors smartly.

 

Friendliness

 

It will be shown interlocutors close attention to how your personality and harmony with the team, make sure that you (or you look like) a realistic and approachable These personal touches big difference may occur if it were in line with your experience and your education.

 

Termination positively

 

Leave a positive impression, regardless of the direction in which I went to the interview, or what you think the interview is over it. Make sure you have made your wishes and thank you for your enthusiasm interlocutors and reiterated again and expressed his longing and Hamas because you hear them and shake hands with the other eye continues strong and this will leave a lasting impression of confidence with prospective business owners.

 

Questions ten most common during the conduct personal interviews and their answers:

1. What are your goals for the future? Or "Where do you see yourself five years from now?"

 It is one of the most common questions in job interviews. Media is not interested in knowing where the question will be literally but wished

 In measuring your self-confidence and the extent of your ambition and your concentration and your ability to upgrade, all of this in one question., That an answer like, "I see myself in the position of executive director of the company" that could cause the same damage, but the other way because this may put you in the developed image of the amounts in the trust to the point madness. You will get you disqualified on the spot, and the reason is obvious. Instead, tell them you see yourself live up in the company, do you see yourself and your skills as a result of your efficiency at work and your achievement of the tasks entrusted have evolved on your shoulders. Let them know that you see yourself able to take on more responsibilities and to deal with the biggest tasks more efficiently. You can also

Add you see yourself has acquired more qualifications and additional knowledge about your field.

2. What are the greatest weaknesses?

 This question may be tricky and needs a lot of deliberation before answering. We must answer this question wisely, and this will be through talking about is related to the skills of the job requirements. For example,

The employer will not care about the weakness of mathematical skills that you are applying for the post of editor or publisher. You can also talk about the skills that were not good in the past, but you've improved on. For example, perhaps you're shy

Formerly introverted but now I became more

Trust and love to communicate with people around you. You do this, you made your point turning the negative into a positive.

3. What are the stronger your strengths?

This easy-to another question is raised consistently during interviews. You can talk about your features that will help ensure the job you are applying to. You should not distracted and kept on talking about the strengths that relate in some way to the job requirements. Prefer not to talk about the extent of your strength as an artist when applying for a job in the field of sales or marketing. However, it should not be a severe one bravado when talking about his strengths. If you talk about a particular point of strength, it is better to have some examples to support your words.

 4. How do you deal with the pressure and job stress?

You should already be able to deal with stress and tension so you can answer the question. Also can not simply tell them how you find the pressure was terrible because it has become part of most jobs, one has to expect that it will face many filled with pressure and tension during the career track positions. Instead, give them a positive response and tell them that you are faced with much determination to end the task, but you can answer that pressure pushes you to work better where the greater the challenge the greater the efficiency shown by the performance of your business. Nevertheless, the answer varies from one person to another. You can also directly answer such as "I train to deal with the pressures," or "I deal with the pressure across the sit alone for some time and I analyzed the question in my head."

5. Describe the position / functional problem and explain to us how you can handle it?

Be A Pro does not boast when your answer to this question and moved away from the exaggerated praise and glorify your role in this position because the interlocutor can pay attention to this. Despite the absence of the typical answer to this question, you can cure a cautious manner. Want such questions that the control on how to behave in the future if you encounter a problem, based on its judgment that the previous experiences. Start a clear explanation of the situation and the timing of its occurrence and then told them do your part in it (the solutions provided by to address the problem). Be sure to be positive and easy to understand your answer.

6. What is your assessment of the success of the standards?

 That contained the answer to any numbers will be disqualified on the spot, where it is said that the greater the value of the salary that you require greater the degree of disapproval from conducting the interview with you. This is because your feedback not only highlighted their passion towards the job, but as a person and vice versa show greed concerned only with money, even though it was through his betrayal of his company. Must fit your definition of success of the company in accordance with the definition should not appear in his self-interest or the hostile policy of the organization, which seeks to work out. It is possible that the answer that you measure your success extent of your ability to accomplish the goals of short and long-term tasks assigned to it.

7. Why did you leave your last job?

This question needs to be answered very careful.

Better not to criticize your boss or former company because this might leave the impression they have a hostile you. Quite simply, they will sow the conviction that you are a person tongue lashing. You can tell them about your desire to look for the best opportunity, so leave your last job so give the same time to look for a new job without causing suffering former boss during this search. You can also be honest and tell them that he had been terminated your contract because the company re-established or re-construction of the administrative pyramid.

8. Why should we employ you are you, exactly?

This question is similar to one way or another the previous question, you will not only be required to just talk about your skills set that fit the job requirements because they also expect you to review your self-confidence and abilities. You can also be the answer to highlight your potential personal and explain why you are better than the rest of the applicants for the job option. Tell them about previous achievements in this area and prepared them mention your interest in the company and the job. 9. Why do you want this job?

 This is your chance, because the ideal show them that you have the skills they require group. You have to teach them that their possession of knowledge and experience will benefit the company if the job is yours, and how your experience confirm your words. You should also tell them about your understanding of the nature of the job and its requirements. If you do this will lead them to a message that you've in your homework of good research and show them that you're interested

Already this function. Never behave emotional way, and tell them how much you need for this job.

10. Tell us more about yourself *

You must be aware that it is conducting the interview with you already have your resume in their hands leaves, so there is no

Farewell to repeat key details about yourself such as name, age, gender and the name of your school or university .. etc. This unusual question is repeated constantly, although it seems an easy question but that you should pay special attention.

Should not be too long, your answer, it is definitely different from the answer to the question pans for "yourself" in primary school. You do not have only a few seconds where people know strangers about yourself, and even fascinated in your answer, this should be it

Be brief and graceful and paint the pompous image. Avoid repeating yourself, and only mentioning the facts that you would like your employer knows it. Conclusion, try to present your ID in your answer.

مها شرف
by مها شرف , معلمة لغة عربية , وزارة التربية السورية

I agree with experts answers, Thanks for the invitation. 

ghazi Almahadeen
by ghazi Almahadeen , Project Facilitator , Jordan River Foundation

Thanks for the invite ................. agreed with the answer Ghada

Mushreq Abdulmajeed
by Mushreq Abdulmajeed , Senior Project Supervisor , Lagoon Spring Company

Can you improve our company ?

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
by Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

what ur plan for next five years on personal life and in work

what ur power u can do it and improve our co.

 

1) What skills and experiences make ou an ideal candidate?

2) About our previous work experience 

3) reason for resigning previous job .

ACHMAD SURJANI
by ACHMAD SURJANI , General Manager Operations , Sinar Jaya Group Ltd

Questions about the job

Ask questions that will help you determine if you would actually like the job, and be able to do it well.

  • What can you tell me about this job that isn't in the description?
  • What is the key to success in this job?
  • What are your future plans for this job?
  • What are the prospects for growth for the person in this job?
  • How do people grow in this job? Do they have OJT (on the job training), pay for training, or are you responsible for your own training?
  • Why is this position open? Is it a new position or a replacement for someone?
    • New position is usually good (sign that the organization is probably growing).
    • If the job is a replacement, ask if the employee transferred to another part of the company, was promoted, or left the employer.
  • How long does someone typically stay in this job?
  • How often is this job open?
  • What is a typical (day, week, month, or year) for a person in this job? Choose multiple time frames, if that feels appropriate.
  • What is the toughest time of (day, week, month, or year) for a person in the job? Why?
  • What is the key thing someone does to be successful in this job?
  • How is success in this job measured by you? By the organization?
  • What are the most important skills of the person who does this job?
  • What is the biggest challenge someone in this job faces on a daily (or weekly or monthly) basis?
  • If anyone has failed at this job, why did they fail?
  • Who does the person in this job report to? (If this job reports to more than one person, ask who writes the performance report.)
  • Is there much travel associated with this job? Where and how often?
  • What hours are typically worked in a week for someone successful in this job? Is overtime expected or accepted?

Questions about the organization

Do not ask a question that could be answered by a quick visit to the employer's website or a Google search.

  • What can you tell me about this organization that isn't widely known?
  • What is the key to success in this organization?
  • How many people are in this group (department, office, and/or company)?
  • How many have joined in the last year? (In a fast growing company, several people could have been added. In a tough place to work, several people could have left.)
  • How many people have left in the last year?
  • Where to people usually go when they leave this group (another company or another part of this company)?
  • How long do people usually stay in this organization?
  • How do you define (or measure) "success" here?
  • How would an employee know if they were considered a success or not?
  • How does someone get promoted in this organization?
  • How does senior management view this group?
  • Where do you see this group in five years?
  • When and how is feedback given to employees?
  • If regular performance reports are done, what is the time frame between reports, who writes them, and who contributes to them?

Ask about anything else in your preparation that raised questions for you. [Read Smart Google Research for Successful Job Interviews for leveraging Google before the interview.]

Questions about the person interviewing you

Particularly if the person will be a co-worker or your manager, understanding what motivates them will give you more insight both into them and into the job.

  • How long have you worked here?
  • How long have you been in this job?
  • What do you enjoy most about working here?
  • Why are you successful here?

Questions about their process and the next steps:

The answers to these questions will help you understand how their hiring process works and how soon you should expect to hear from them.

  • What happens next in your process? (another round of interviews or reference checks or...)
  • When will you be back in touch with me?
  • How will you get back in touch with me (telephone, email, or something else)?
  • When do you expect to make an offer?
  • When do you anticipate the person in this job will start work?
  • Who should I stay in touch with (get name, job title, and contact information)?

Be sure to send a thank you after EVERY interview: Sending Your Thank You After the Job Interview including many sample thank you notes like Sample Job Interview Thank You Email.

Answering the Common Job Interview Questions:

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