Archive for October, 2008
Job Interview Tip # 5: Practice, practice and practice
You may also try to practice your answers to general questions you think will be asked. There are also some technical questions that you should be able to discuss with ease so that the interviewer will find you to be knowledgeable and eloquent.
If you can, try to be in front of the mirror and watch your gestures and mannerisms as well. Eliminate those that you feel you need to take out, and practice having a decent body language that go well with your answers.
Job Interview Tip # 4: Be ready to answer well the seemingly silly questions
There are job interviewers who are more adventurous with their questioning. Some may ask, “If you were an animal, what would you be?” Such questions may put you off-guard, but you need not be – there is no right or wrong answers for these. It all boils down to how you justify your answers.
You could say that you’d be a tiger, as you’ll never stop until you catch your prey (or hit your goals?). Or you could also say that you’d be a deer, as you will ensure that there will be no cutthroat competition within your department, and that there will be harmony and teamwork where you will be assigned. So whether you are the predator, or even the prey, as long as you give it a good justification – that will be good and acceptable enough.