Study, work & live in the US (1)
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1 - Job interview (1)
Let's take a moment and talk about some of the types of questions that you could be asking during the interview process.
Sometimes the questions are misleading because we're taking them personally when they're really talking professionally.
A
good example would be if they were to say to you - "Tell me about
yourself". You're sitting there saying - "Well, I like to go hunting on
the weekends. I like to go camping and take my family fishing, and I
really enjoy that". Well, great answer, but that's not what they're
asking.
When they say - "Tell me about yourself". They are
asking you to tell them about yourself in this job environment. They
want to hear - "I'm enjoying coming to work with people that I get
around and I have a good time with. I like an atmosphere of
friendliness. Your company being a company that specializes in public
relations and customer service, well, this it the environment that i
like and it would work well for me to work well in your environment".
That would be more in line with what they're really asking when you say - Tell me about yourself.
When
they ask about strengths and weaknesses, again, they're not asking you
for you to really tell them - I'm very good at this and I'm weak at
this, but in essence, they may be asking you about how that would apply
to the work force, to the workplace where you are actually going to go
to work.
One of the simplest examples is you might say - "I was
told early on in my career that listening was a weakness. I didn't
listen very well because I was always ready to answer whatever it was
they were saying. The good news was they were right and I figured that
out, so what I've done now is I've taken a weakness of not listening
very well. I've taken classes on it, I've read books on it, I've done
studies on it, and over the last few years what I've determined is I
really wasn't a good listener, but now I really trained myself to
understand the importance to listening to the person before I try to
answer."
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