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Interview questions and answers
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Interview questions and answers
1. How would you describe yourself?
2. What influenced you to choose a career in...?
3. How has your university education prepared you for a job in...?
4. Tell me about your current job. What have you been doing?
5. How would you describe yourself in terms of your ability to work as a member of a team?
6. Tell me about a major problem you recently handled. Were you successful in resolving it?
7. How do you handle pressure?
8. Why do you want to work for this company?
9. What do you feel you have to offer this company?
10. What personal weakness has caused you the greatest difficulty on the job?
11. What would you say has been your most rewarding accomplishment?
12. What are your goals for the future?
13. What do you think you'll be doing in five years' time?
TEXT 2
Exercise 1. Read the text.
A. A ré sumé in today’s competitive market should ‘sell’ the candidate, not just the experience and skills, but the ‘personal brand’ – what the person uniquely brings to the table.
So how do you organize your ré sumé to sell your unique skills? Stick to the basics and spend time customizing your experience and education to fit the description of the job for which you’re applying. With today’s technology, it’s easier than ever.
B. Though your ré sumé is a marketing tool, there’s no need to get fancy. Keep it clean and traditional. The point is to communicate information quickly and clearly. Accomplishments and the quality of experience make candidates stand out from others, not the paper color or some fashionable font. It’s smart to use a traditional font, since you may send your ré sumé electronically and many businesses don’t have a lot of fonts loaded on their computers. With many companies using online assessment tools and databases, your ré sumé will likely be requested in plain text format or automatically switched to plain text anyway.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with saving a nice print version using a font other than Times New Roman so your mailed or hand delivered ré sumé will stand out.
C. The ré sumé objective may not take up much space on your ré sumé, but it is one of its most crucial components.
A ré sumé without an objective, title or headline causes the recruiter to have to work harder – they have to search for the candidate’s purpose in sending the ré sumé.
Job seekers often make the mistake of using their objective to tell the recruiter what they want from the company. Instead, candidates should be doing the opposite. Employers want to know what you can do for them.
Think of your objective as a headline, title, or, as ré sumé writer Mark Bartz calls it, a “branding statement”.
The branding statement opens up our ré sumé, and it tells the reader in as few words as possible what makes this product – the job candidate – a unique value among the other products.
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D. Most experts agree that a summary statement – a brief highlight of your qualifications – should go first. Deciding whether to put education or experience next depends on your situation. If someone is just graduating and up to three years out of college or graduate school, it makes sense to keep education on page one. But some experts say that some recent graduates have solid work experience. In that case they should mention their degree and school in the qualifications statement then elaborate in the education section, which goes last.
Except for recent graduates with limited experience and those for whom education is a key requirement, such as physicians or university professors, experience goes before education on the ré sumé.
E. Begin your qualification statement with your most recent work and include all of your jobs, so no mysterious gaps appear. Many people think they don’t need to include jobs lasting only three months. But gaps make employers wonder what was going on.
Any gap of more than three months or sketchy employment information looks
suspicious and makes potential employers reluctant. And remember, the application is a legal document. If you willingly leave out information, that can be considered falsification the same as if you make it up. Experts remind applicants to use bullet points, which make the ré sumé much easier to scan.
F. Technology has made applying for jobs easier, which helps and hurts applicants. On the one hand, you can easily tailor your ré sumé with a few keystrokes. On the other hand, so can all applicants. With a database often deciding who stands out, it’s more important than ever to pay attention to
the words you use and how you organize them.
Exercise 2. Choose the best suitable title from the given below to each passage and fill in a table. Two titles are odd.
1) No fancy!
2) Strong objective sets the tone for ré sumé
3) A good ré sumé is an efficient means to attract the attention of your would be employer.
4) What is on the market?
5) Leaving out some information in your ré sumé is not advisable.
6) Arranging your qualification statement.
7) Applying for a job.
8) What employers want to hear.
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