Best Answers for HR Questions 1

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Best Answers for HR Questions

1)Tell me about yourself.

Hints:
Beware, about 80% of all interviews begin with this "Innocent" question. Mant candidates, unprepared for this question, skewer themselves by rambling , recapping their life history, delving into ancient work history or personal matters.

Answer:
Start with the present and tell why you are well qualified for the position. Remember that the key to all success full interviewing is to match your qualification to what the interviewer is looking for . In other words you must sell that the Buyer is Buying. This is the single most important strategy in job hunting.

2)What are your greatest strengths?

Hints:
This question seems like a softball lob, but be prepared. You don't want to come across as egotistical or arrogant. Neither is this a time to be humble.

Answer:
You should have a list mentally prepared of your greatest strengths. You should also have, a specific example or two, which illustrates each strength, an example chosen from your most recent and most impressive achievements.
You should have this list of your greatest strengths and corresponding examples from your achievements so well committed to memory.

3)What are your greatest weakness?

Hints:
Beware: This is an elimination question, designed to shorten the candidates list. Any admission of a weakness or fault will earn you an "A" for honesty, but an "F" for interview.

Answer:
Disguise(Mask) a strength as a weakness.

Example: " I sometime push my people too hard. I like to work with a sense of urgency and everyone is not always on the same avelength."

Drawback: This strategy is better than admitting a flaw, but it's so widely used, it is transparent to any experienced interviewer.

4)Why should I Hire you?

Hints:
Believe it or not, this is a killer question because so many candidates are unprepared for it.

Answer:
By now, you can see how critical it is to apply the overall strategy of uncovering the employer's needs before you answer questions. If you know the Employer's greatest needs and desires, this question will give you a big leg up over other candidates because you will give him better reasons for hiring you than someone else is likely to..... reasons tied directly to his needs.

5)Aren't you overqualified for this Position?

Hints:
The Employer may be concerned that you will grow dissatisfied and leave.

Answer:
As with any objection, don't view this as a sign of imminent defeat. It's an invitation to teach the interviewer a new way to think about this situation, seeing advantages instead of drawbacks.

6)Where do you see yourself five years from now?

Hints:
One reason interviewers ask this question is to see if you're settling for this position, using it merely as a stopover until something better comes along. Or they could be trying to gauge your level of ambition.

Answer:
Reassure your interviewer that you are looking to make a long-term commitment.... That this position entails exactly what you are looking to do and what do you do extremely well. As for your future, you believe that if you perform each job at hand with excellence, future opportunities will take care of themselves.

7)Describe your ideal company, location and job.

Hints:
This is often asked by an experienced interviewer who thinks you may be overqualified, but knows better than to show his hand by posing his objection directly. So he'll use this question instead, which often gets a candidate to reveal that, indeed, he or she is looking for something other than the position at hand.

Answer:
The only right answer is to describe what this company is offering, being sure to make your answer believable with specific reasons, stated with sincerity, why each quality represented by this opportunity is attracted to you.

8)Why do you want to work at our company?

Hints:
This question tests whether you have done any homework about the Firm. If you haven't, you lose. If you have, you win Big.

Answer:
This question is your opportunity to hit the ball out of the park, thanks to the in-depth research you should do before any interview.

Best sources for researching your target company:
Annual reports, the corporate newsletter, contacts you know at the company or its clients, advertisements, articles about the company in the trade press.