- “Tell me about a time when you _______”
- “Tell me about yourself”
- “What are your weaknesses?”
- “What is your desired salary?”
- “Why are you leaving your current job?”
- A great tactic is to choose a past weakness that you have an awesome story about fixing. For example, if your weakness is that you have difficulty confronting people with bad news, tell your interviewer that you’ve learned to begin with something positive before moving into the negative. This is a perfect example because the issue is minor (interviewers won’t consider it a deal-breaker), and you’ve shown that you’re someone who can learn and seeks improvement.
- Most people in an interview don’t make explicit their thought process behind how or why they did something and, even if they are able to come up with a compelling story, they are unable to explain their thought processes.
- Put a positive twist on the negatives to show your interviewer that you’ve learned significant and valuable lessons.
- Telling your interviewer that your weakness is working so hard that you have trouble prioritizing your family life is a little too cliché and comes across as disingenuous. But telling your interviewer that you lose interest in mundane tasks (though this may be genuine) makes you an unappealing candidate as well.
- Have stories prepared that demonstrate different desirable attributes of yourself. Just don’t forget to explain the thinking that went into your actions as you tell them.
- Human nature ensures interviewers return to these questions time and again to find out if you’re someone they want to have down the hall.
- If at all possible, show the interviewer that your moving jobs is all about passion and career growth.
- Most people are quick to gush about their life story or their passions outside work. In the process, people have the tendency to slip up and to reveal things that cast them in a negative light. You don’t want to be too loose with your personal life with someone you just met.
- Say something simple like, “Though I know salary is relevant, I don’t make decisions based solely on it, and I would prefer to discuss it later once you know more about me and I know more about the role.”
- The idea is to give the most important points of your resume and how these experiences make you a great fit for the job. All you need to do is show the interviewer why you’re the best fit for the position and leave all the other extraneous details out.
- The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever proposes a number first, loses.
- The interviewer only wants to know that you aren’t leaving purely for money and that you don’t have trouble getting along with people.
- Simply let your interviewer know that the most important thing to you is how well you fit the position.
Published by Leonardo Tomás Cardillo
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