Practice Good On This Answer Jobs Interview
Author and longstanding recruitment manager Lou Adler spent ten years trying to find the one question that all the job interview could revolve around.
During his 30 years in the recruitment industry has American Lou Adler become a renowned career expert, and he stands behind the best-selling book "Hire With Your Head."
Recently he also published the book "The Essential Guide to Hiring & Getting Hired», where he reviews his quest for the best interview question. After 10 years of trial and error, he developed one question that was worthy title:
"What project or specific task would you consider as the most significant achievement in your career so far?"
To see why this simple question is so effective, you must put yourself into the role of job search, and imagine that you have just been asked this question. What achievement would you chosen to highlight? Now imagine that over the next 15 to 20 minutes would interviewer dug deeper and set up follow-up questions below.
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How would you respond?
- Can you give me a detailed overview of the implementation?
- Tell me about the company, title, position and role you had, and the others involved.
- What were the results you obtained?
- When was that and how long did the project?
- Why you were selected?
- What were the three or four greatest challenges and how you handled them?
- Where were you willing to push yourself that little bit extra or take the initiative to get a good result?
- Explain the work plan you had, how you relate to it, and whether it was successful.
- Describe the environment you worked in and the resources you had.
- Describe the leader's style and whether you liked it or not.
- Describe the technical skills you needed to reach the target and how they were used.
- Tell us about some of the biggest mistakes you made.
- Which parts of the project did you like best?
- Which parts of the project did not you care and how you handled them?
- How directed and influenced others? Use several examples.
- How you were led, trained and influenced by others? Use several examples.
- How did this you and how did you grow as a person?
- What would you do differently if you could do it over again?
- What formal recognition did you receive?
If this question succession could be related to a previous project or task, and if your answers were detailed enough that it took 15-20 minutes to complete: Think about how much the interviewer came to know about your ability to handle the job! You will be surprised how much you have revealed about yourself and your abilities.
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