In general
¢Á desired format: face, facial expression, eye focus, eye contact,
clothing, timely arrival,
--posture, hyperactivity, nervousness,
pausing, speech speed, readiness
¢Á try to clarify the interviewer's concerns
¢Á enthusiastically address the interviewer's concerns
¢Á explain how you can grow in this position
¢Á make sure that the interviewer understand your qualifications
¢Á show how you can use your experiences to benefit the company
traps to be avoided
¢Á trying to answer every question as quickly as possible
¢Á describing student job negatively
¢Á wanting too much too soon
¢Á downplaying internship and parttime job
¢Á apologizing for your age
¢Á appearing surprised to recognize the interviewer's age,
race, sex, face
Questions to be practised
1) Questions about yourself:
¢Á for this kind of questions, try to tell your value, accomplishment,
--that you are well organized,
self-motivated, focused, how well fit into the job, etc
¢Á anticipated questions
--what is your memorable accomplishment?
--how does this position fit
with your long term career-goal ?
--what is your greatest strength?
greatest weakness?
--what key asset can you offer
in this job?
--do you have any hobbies, ouside
interests, participate in any sports?
--would you work with others
or alone?, experience working with teams?
--are you a follower or leader?
--describe your ideal job, describe
the job you are able to do
--what is your definition of
success? of failure?
--how do you describe your success?,
why have you been successful?
--how do you handle stressful
situation?
--why should I hire you over
the other candidates?
--describe the process you make
the decision, how do you set goals?
--why did you quit previous job?
--How much time have you invested
in developing yourself?
2) Questions about the job
and the company
¢Á proving that you understand the job, know the company and
industry.
--even if you do not know the
details about products, profitability, position, goal, show
--how you arrived at such conclusion.
¢Á anticipated questions
--what do you know about this
position?
--what do you know about our
competition?
--challenges facing the copany,
direction of the company,
--market performance of the new
product,
--why did you apply with this
company?, how will you help our company?
--personal vision, personal mission
statement, vision after 3, 5 years
--what will you do if you are
assigned to local or undesired department?
--how do you think of the gap
between the job and your major?
--describe the respectable senior
type
3) Questions about skills
¢Á describe your technical/work skill in a organized manner,
once your technical
--skills are established, you
should also sell the adaptability, skill of dealing
with other people, personality, attitude to communicate, cooperate
in the organization.
¢Á anticipated questions
--what is the most difficult
job problem you have ever faced?
--how good are you at oral presentation?,
how would you rate your writing/verbal skill?
--how do you deal with unexpected
events on the job?
--how do you organize your time?
--why should I hire you?
--what is your experience with
group projects?
--how do you delegate your authority?
4) Qestions about Experiences
¢Á focus your answer on the employer's needs. simply explaining
it does not provide
--appealing to the employer.
show exactly how your accomplishments make you
a perfect candidate for -the
job opened
¢Á anticipated questions
--what kind of experience do
you have for this job?
--how do you see the broad responsibility
of the job?
--what are your qualification?
--how do you resolve a tense
situation with coworkers?
--how does your experience match
with our co need?
--how can you prevent the mistake?
ever misjudge the something?
--give a specific example that
you helped coworkers
5) Question about education
and training
¢Á focus on updated education and adaptability. applying educatiomal
skills
to your job.in addition to -college
and universities, discuss vocational/technical learning,
--other career related trainings
¢Á anticipates questions
--how do you improve yourself
professionally?
--what do you do to keep up to
date in your job?
--of what value do you place
on the academic degrees?
--how do you think of the on
line training program?
--why did you attend the university?
how did you choose your major?
--how has your education benefited
you?
--how has your education helped
with your current job?
--what specific work related
courses have you taken?
--why didn't you get a better
GPA? does it indicate success in the position?
--extracurricular activities,
leadership positions, preferred and least preferred courses
--have you ever been abroad to
study language or any courses? what's the lesson?
6) other questions
--tell me about the major social
issues
--what kind of programming language
can you command?
--what portal site do you most
frequently visit? why?
--assuming there's a call from
foreign buyer, try talk with him.
issue summary
a, explain about yourself(emphasizing
the relation to this job/study)
- for 3 minute, for 10 minute, for 20 minute
b, purpose/objective/why
- why this job, why this school, why this major, why
this test, why change job,
- plan/goal after this study, career goal.
- how fit to this job, to this position. to this major/school
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