Interview Tips and Interview Questions

• Dress to impress! Be professional in appearance, be clean cut, smell good, clean teeth and fresh breath etc.
• Be polite and use good manners.
• Remember that the people who are interviewing you are just that, people. Do not put them on a pedestal. Speak to them professionally but with the confidence as if you were speaking to friends
• Be on time! If you’re late to your interview this doesn’t look good for the potential employers who want someone reliable.
• Be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm is a great way to have people acknowledge and believe what you’re saying. Also enthusiastic people bring great energy to any team.
• Don’t get overly personal. Employers don’t need to know about your relationship issues. Keep it professional. Good things to schmooze about might be sports, the weather, local affairs etc
• Be confident not cocky. There is a difference.
• Bring supported documents to your interview. The employer may already have your resume printed out but always bring them. You want to be prepared.
• Use the name of your interviewer. Be personable.
• Visualize yourself having a successful interview! Visualization is a form of practice.

• Tell me about yourself
• What are your strengths 
• What are your weaknesses?
• Why do you want this job?
• Where would you like to be in your career five years from now?
• What's your ideal company?
• What attracted you to this company?
• Why should we hire you?
• What did you like least about your last job?
  
• When were you most satisfied in your job?
• What can you do for us that other candidates can't? 
• What were the responsibilities of your last position?  
• Why are you leaving your current job?
  
• What do you know about this industry?  
• What do you know about our company? 
• Are you willing to relocate?  
• Do you have any questions for me?
  

• What was the last project you headed up, and what was its outcome? 
• Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work. 
• Can you describe a time when your work was criticized? 
• Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight? How did you handle it? 
• Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it? 
• What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it? 
• What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it? 
• If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you do?
• What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it? 
• Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it? 
• What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it? 
• Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job. 
• If you were at a business lunch and you ordered a rare steak and they brought it to you well done, what would you do? 
• If you found out your company was doing something against the law, like fraud, what would you do? 
• What assignment was too difficult for you, and how did you resolve the issue? 
• What's the most difficult decision you've made in the last two years and how did you come to that decision?
• Describe how you would handle a situation if you were required to finish multiple tasks by the end of the day, and there was no conceivable way that you could finish them. 

• What are you looking for in terms of career development? 
• How do you want to improve yourself in the next year?
• What kind of goals would you have in mind if you got this job? 
• If I were to ask your last supervisor to provide you additional training or exposure, what would she suggest?