The Job Interview: The Top 50 Questions Asked and 50 Behaviors You Must Avoid
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The two most popular and well-attended career development seminars that I offer are about resume writing and face-to-face interviewing strategies. Because many of the participants are first time jobseekers, interest is largely and rightfully focused on resume writing. After all, a well crafted resume is an essential first step in any job search. However, if you are lucky enough to advance to the interview stage, you must be aware of the rules, regulations and terms of engagement of the interviewing process.
First, as many veteran jobseekers know, you will be asked a lot of seemingly irrelevant and whacky questions. Second, people who are interviewing for a job are expected to behave in professional and socially accepted manner. In other words, there are certain attitudes and behaviors that must be avoided at all costs if you want to get a job offer from a prospective employer. To that end, I found a couple of lists on the Internet—“The Top 50 Interview Questions that Employers Ask” and “50 Worst of the Worst (and Most Common) Job Interview Mistakes"—that are likely to be helpful to persons who may be preparing for an upcoming face-to-face job interview.
While many of the recommended behaviors to avoid may be fairly obvious to most of you, crafting appropriate answers to some of the questions on the Top 50 list may not be. By now, some of you may have googled “answers to the top 50 interview questions” and found a variety of lists that supply answers to some of the questions. However, while it may be helpful to look at those lists for guidance, I strongly advise that you come up with your own personalized responses. This is because prospective interviewers, like you may have found the same lists!
Until next time…
Good Luck and Good Job Hunting!!!!!!
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