Interview common questions

You just graduated from the college and looking for the job or any interview is coming up ? Here is some of the most common question that the interviewer might ask and you should always be ready to answer these questions.

1-"Tell me about yourself?" For this question you shouldn't talk about your personal life. You should talk about your experiences, what skills you have or what can you do.

2- "Why are you leaving or left your previous job?" Provide a career goals that relates you to gain these goals in this (new) company and tell them that this company has a good platform that you can start with.

3- "Why should we hire you?" Again, relate it to your long-term career goals and provide them with an example that how your skills or experiences match up and contribute to the company growth.

4- "What's your greatest strength?" Be specific, positive, and give an example that relates to your work experience.

5- "What is your greatest weakness?" Give an example of positive weakness, for Ex: "Sometimes when I have lots of work to do at work and I might not have a time for my self but I can deal with it well though."

6- "What is your greatest accomplishment?" For this question, talk about past work accomplishment, and make sure that accomplishment includes how you are valuable and ca fit in that position.

7- "What are your salary requirements?" For this question, you should not share your salary unless you are currently working in that company and applying for the higher position.

8- "What are your career goals?" Give an example of short and long term career goals, that how you can start up in this company with your skills and how the respectable position you want to work as your long career.

9-"Describe a difficulty work situation and what you did to overcome it?" Bring up a past work difficulty situation that you handled well and pick up a example that shows you tackling that could rise a new company that your interviewing for.

10- "Do you have a question for me" You should always do your research and be ready to give a question about the company, you may ask "what can you tell me about your new products or plans for growth?"

Shakhboz Negmatov

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