Anytime you go for an interview there is always at least a few questions that seem to be imbedded in the mind of the interviewee. Whether good or bad for the interview, they can end badly for you depending on your answers.
5. Where do you see yourself in 'x' years?
This can come in a variety of different ways, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, but to sum it up, the interviewee wants you to have some success in their company and make sure your all for staying where you are and no chance of running off and having to repeat the whole process again in a few months time.
But whatever you, do not do this!
4. What is your greatest achievement in life?
I actually got this asked to me once, and it was for a simple bar job so I didn't see the relevance. However after pausing for a few seconds, I was told by the interviewee that this was the quickest question to answer in the interview, so I blurted out the first answer that popped in my head, which she gave me a funny look to, but never mind.
In my opinion, unless it is a career job then I don't really think this is truly important.
3. Tell me about yourself
This is a bad question, not in terms of importance as it can be, but in terms of it is a question most people oversell or undersell themselves on. If you don't talk enough you are shown to have lack of confidence, if you rabble on they think your just a chatterbox with a big mouth.
It's also a hard question to think an answer on the spot and need to stray away from the cliche answers, just like...
2. Why do you think you'll be good to work with us
This is a question that I have stuck to a cliche a few times and it ends badly, one time the interviewee kept telling me to stop and start again with something that wasn't cliche and tell him WHY and I wanted the job, and then went through each of my past jobs asking why I left like an interrogation rather than an interview (damn department stores).
But it really is one of the worst questions as you have to know something about where your applying for, what they do and why you think it would be good idea for them to hire you, even if the place is a dump.
1. Why do you want this job?
This is the question that really takes the piss! Why do we want jobs? Well for money, that's the reason 99.9%* of the world work, for MONEY! Unless you have some insane passion for work and decide to type up spreadsheets for 'fun', then I hardly doubt your answer should be different, but alas you have to have some sort of passion for the job, for example, in retail you have to enjoy talking to strangers, selling them stuff, and getting up early at the weekend, all with a smile on your face. Anything else means that your not right for the job, and clearly being a bum is suiting society better for you!
* not based on facts
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