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The Wrong Answers to 5 Common Job Interview Questions !!!

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You’ve picked the perfect suit and honed your elevator pitch, but if you haven’t rehearsed your answers to common job interview questions, you might have already lost out on

The Wrong Answers to 5 Common Job Interview Questions

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You’ve picked the perfect suit and honed your elevator pitch, but if you haven’t rehearsed your answers to common job interview questions, you might have already lost out on the offer before you shake hands with the hiring manager. Being prepared to answer certain generic questions about your goals, experience, and interest in a position is essential if you’re on the hunt for a new position. Flubbing your responses, on the other hand, can send your resume straight to the recycling bin.

Though you’ll likely hear the same questions again and again over the course of your job hunt, it’s still easy to make mistakes, especially if you answer off the cuff or make the mistake of being too honest in your replies. If you want to impress a potential employer, review these five incorrect answers to common interview questions and find out what you should say instead.

1. “Why do you want to work here?”

Wrong answers: “I need a job,” “I want a shorter commute,” or

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4 Toughest Job Interview Questions (and How to Answer Them)

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You’ve toiled for months, sending dozens of resumes and cover letters, and your hard work has finally paid off. You got the job interview and now it’s time to prepare for your big day. You have a killer suit picked out, your hair is perfect, and you know everything there is to know about the company. There’s some good news and bad news. The good news: you’re going to look really good and sound knowledgeable. The bad news: it’s not enough to look good and be able to recite company facts. Your interviewer is likely preparing some difficult interview questions in an effort to weed out the best from the worst.
Career counselor Thomas J. Denham advises being prepared by practicing some common questions and answers beforehand. “The purpose of an interviewer asking you questions is to evaluate: 1) How prepared and motivated are you for this job with this company? and 2) How would you fit in with this company/department? Prepare a brief statement about yourself and say it over and over, so you get used to talking about your strengths in a succinct way. However, memorizing your answers will sound too “canned,” said Denham. How can you demonstrate you’re the right person for the job? Here are some of the toughest interview questions you’ll face and tips for how to best answer them.

1. What is your greatest weakness?

This is an interviewer favorite because your answer can help uncover flaws that may help the interviewer come to the conclusion you’re not the right person for the job. Career coach Mike Simpson refers to this as an “onion question” partly due to the question’s layers of complexity and the variety of ways it can be answered. “An onion question is a question with multiple layers…just like, well…an onion! And like an onion it can make you cry, but only if you tackle it unprepared. First off, this isn’t a simple question you can rattle off a quick answer to or parrot back some easy-to-memorize statistics or facts and move on. It’s a question meant to make you think, and think hard,” said Simpson.
Simpson advises resisting the urge to deny you have any weaknesses. He says this is a slick way to avoid answering the question, and interviewers will see right through this tactic. Instead, Simpson recommends mentioning a real weakness that you’ve learned to overcome and are working toward overcoming. However, make sure the weakness is minor enough not to raise red flags and that it’s a problem that actually has a solution.

2. Why should we hire you?

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This question will likely catch you off guard. The key is to know exactly why you’re the best pick. Answering this question will require a delicate balance. The goal is to communicate confidence without sounding conceited. You also don’t want to appear to be begging for the job. “Every organization has a specific set of qualities that the potential hire needs to have in order to be successful in the position.

Ten Things Never To Do On A Job Interview

Here are 10 of them!
 
On a job interview, you never want to:
1. Be late. Make a test drive or test bus-or-train-trip before your interview day to make sure you know how to get there, and how long it will take you to get to the interview location.

2. Arrive without knowing who you’re meeting, or without their contact information. Bring the name, department and phone number or email address of the person who invited you to the interview. If there’s a mix-up or if the regular reception person is out of the office that day, whoever greets you will be able to find the person you’re supposed to meet if you bring their name and contact details.

3. Come unprepared. Bring a few hardcopies of your resume, a notepad and pen with you in a padfolio. On the notepad, write down your questions for your interviewer before you get to the interview. You’ll use the same notepad to take notes during your interview.

4. Come to the interview under-dressed. If you’re not sure whether the employer organization is a full-business-attire kind of place or a casual-business or just-plain-casual place, ask the recruiter who invites you to the job interview. You don’t want to show up for the interview under-dressed — that will only intensify any nerves you may be feeling. It is also possible, if you’re interviewing with a startup or a funky creative firm, to come over-dressed, so don’t be shy about asking, “What is the usual interview attire in your company?”

5. Show up without questions. Develop questions for your interviewer(s) and write them on your notepad before you leave home. Ask questions about the role, the working hours, the business priorities or whatever you most want to know about the job. If there are critical issues that will determine whether or not you can take the job (for instance, if you can’t travel for business because of family obligations and therefore need to know whether or not the job requires travel) make sure you ask those questions before the interview is over!

6. Interrupt the interviewer while he or she is talking. You may be excited to tell a story or share an answer to the interviewer’s question, but take a breath and let him or her finish talking first.

7. Forget the interviewer’s name or the company name in mid-stream. Write the interviewer’s name, the department you’re interviewing for, job title of the job you’re pursuing and the company name on the notepad that you’ll bring with you to the interview in your padfolio. That way you can’t forget the company name, the job title or the interviewer’s name in mid-interview.

8. Tell irrelevant stories, or go off-topic. It’s better to stop and think about what the interviewer has asked you before you speak than to launch into a story or an answer that has nothing to do with this company’s situation.

9. Book your schedule too tightly. Make sure you leave enough time in your schedule before your next appointment, because job interviews can run long and that’s often a good thing. You would hate to have to call your child’s daycare center and apologize for not being able to pick up your child on time, or have to leave the interview in a rush.

10. Leave without thanking the interviewer for his or her time. Be sure to thank the interviewer for his or her time by saying “Thanks so much for meeting with me — it was terrific to meet you and learn more about the opportunity.”

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Many job seekers focus so hard on answering interview questions well that they forget something very important: You are there to ask questions, too.
Asking the right questions at an interview is important for two reasons:
First, when done correctly, the questions you ask confirm your qualifications as a candidate for the position.
Second, you are interviewing the employer just as much as the employer is interviewing you. This is your opportunity to find out if this is an organization where you want to work.
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3 Things You Want to Achieve
When you ask the right questions, you want to achieve three things:

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• Make sure the interviewer has no reservations about you.
• Demonstrate your interest in the employer.
• Find out if you feel the employer is the right fit for you.

There are an infinite number of questions you could ask during a job interview, but if you stay focused on those three goals, the questions should come easy to you.
I recommend preparing three to five questions for each interview, and actually ask three of them. (I like to have more prepared than is needed because some of my questions might be answered in the course of the interview.)
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10 Questions You Might Ask In a Job Interview
Here are 10 interview questions you could ask, and why:
1. What skills and experiences would make an ideal candidate? This is a great open-ended question that will have the interviewer put his or her cards on the table and state exactly what the employer is looking for. If the interviewer mentions something you didn’t cover yet, now is your chance.
2. What is the single largest problem facing your staff and would I be in a position to help you solve this problem? This question not only shows that you are immediately thinking about how you can help the team, it also encourages the interviewer to envision you working at the position.
3. What have you enjoyed most about working here? This question allows the interviewer to connect with you on a more personal level, sharing his or her feelings. The answer will also give you unique insight into how satisfied people are with their jobs there. If the interviewer is pained to come up with an answer to your question, it’s a big red flag.
4. What constitutes success at this position and this firm or nonprofit? This question shows your interest in being successful there, and the answer will show you both how to get ahead and whether it is a good fit for you.
5. Do you have any hesitations about my qualifications? I love this question because it’s gutsy. Also, you’ll show that you’re confident in your skills and abilities.
6. Do you offer continuing education and professional training? This is a great positioning question, showing that you are interested in expanding your knowledge and ultimately growing with the employer.
7. Can you tell me about the team I’ll be working with? Notice how the question is phrased; it assumes you will get the job. This question also tells you about the people you will interact with on a daily basis, so listen to the answer closely.
8. What can you tell me about your new products or plans for growth? This question should be customized for your particular needs. Do your homework on the employer’s site beforehand and mention a new product or service it’s launching to demonstrate your research and interest. The answer to the question will give you a good idea of where the employer is headed.
9. Who previously held this position? This seemingly straightforward question will tell you whether that person was promoted or fired or if he/she quit or retired. That, in turn, will provide a clue to whether: there’s a chance for advancement, employees are unhappy, the place is in turmoil or the employer has workers around your age.
10. What is the next step in the process? This is the essential last question and one you should definitely ask. It shows that you’re interested in moving along in the process and invites the interviewer to tell you how many people are in the running for the position.

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There isn’t a working person among us who doesn’t deal with stress — whether you’re an entrepreneur, a freelancer, working for a struggling startup, or clocking in working for a company, work stress is inevitable.
But where does this stress originate, and how do we deal with it?
Most guides to stress will give you some actions to take: exercise, sleep well, eat right, meditate, and do some yoga at your desk. These are all amazing, and you should do them.
However, I’m more interested in getting at the root of stress. Dig down, ferret out the cause, and work with that directly, rather than treating the symptoms. Only once you deal with the cause of stress can you truly be a master of it.

Cause of stress

Let’s take a look at some things you might be stressed about at work:

• Hard deadlines
• Difficult coworkers or boss
• Uncertainty about your job
• Uncertainty about whether you can succeed at this project
• Competition, office politics, interpersonal conflicts
• Not having enough time for family or personal life
• Being overwhelmed by too much to do

There are many more possibilities, but these are a good sampling. In all these examples, the cause is really the same thing:
We are attached to how we want things to be. We have an ideal about how each of these situations should be, and our clinging to this ideal is causing the stress.
Let’s take the uncertainty about the job. Of course, that’s not ideal, we would rather have a stable job that we don’t have to worry about. So reality is not matching our ideal (a stable job), and that causes us stress. We don’t like the present situation, and this not wanting uncertainty is causing us to stress out.
The same is true of each of the above examples — when a coworker is not meeting our ideal, when we have an ideal that we won’t have too much to do, when our ideal of having easy-to-meet deadlines isn’t being met … we get stressed.
Unfortunately, this happens all day long, every day. Our ideals about reality are constantly not being met, and so we stress out. It builds up. It becomes a health problem.
So what’s the way to deal with this? Let’s take a look.

Dealing with the cause of stress

If our attachment to an ideal is the cause of our stress, then can we just not have ideals? Well, that would be ideal, perhaps, but no, I’ve found it impossible to not have ideals. The ideals come up, unbidden, in our active and ever hopeful minds.
The way to deal with the cause of stress is to:

1. Notice that you’re feeling stress or frustration
2. Mindfully notice your attachment to an ideal, and
3. Loosen the attachment, finding love for the actual reality of the present moment

Let’s look at these in turn.
First, you have to notice the stress. Learn to see your frustration or worry about something as a signpost, a flag that tells you what’s going on. In this way, stress becomes a positive thing, because it’s letting you know that something is going on. It’s like a notification system on your phone — instead of ignoring the notifications, as we usually do (we don’t like to think about stress), we can mindfully drop into ourselves and deal with it.
Next, you have to mindfully notice your attachment to the ideal. That means dropping in and saying, "Hey, things are meeting my ideal and it’s stressing me out — what’s my ideal?" It’s probably something that is more secure, stable, comfortable, controlled than what you’re currently experiencing.
For example, if you’re overwhelmed by too much work, your ideal is probably that you have a very controlled, comfortable amount of work, and that you’re on top of it all. That would feel much more secure, stable, comfortable to you.
Unfortunately, comfort and control and security aren’t what life provides us. It mostly provides us the very opposite — something chaotic, unpredictable, uncomfortable, unstable. And we can be upset by this, or we can embrace it. We can hate all of this about life, or we can love it. This is a choice.
Finally, we can loosen our attachment to this expectation or ideal. We can say, "This ideal is not helping me. Clinging to wanting things this way is actually harming me. I hereby open my heart to many more possibilities."
That means we can be open to a less-than-ideal coworker, who isn’t perfect and is struggling with his issues. We can be open to loving having too much work, more than we can possibly do, and having to prioritize and just focus on the important stuff for now. We can be open to the possibility that we’ll do poorly, or lose our jobs, because even then we’ll figure something out and life will be just fine.
Loosening our attachments is about realizing that life doesn’t have to be one way, our way, that we can be open to life’s way. It’s about learning to love everything, s--- and all. It’s about being curious about life, about others, instead of judging life and other people as bad.
And then it’s about working from this place of peace and love. Have too much to do? Pick one task, and do your best with it. Have an annoying coworker? Find compassion for her struggles, and be curious about what she’s going through, and talk to her compassionately and empathetically about your conflict with her. Worried about losing your job? Focus on doing your best, while preparing yourself for the possibility that you might need to find another job.
Many people won’t like this solution, because it means that they don’t get the ideals they want. Most of us want to control life to be the way we want. And that’s fine, if it works for you.
What I’m suggesting is being open to the many other possibilities, opening your heart to what life offers instead of what you want it to offer, being curious about what’s really in front of you rather than judgmental, and learning to love everything as it is.

Read the original article on Zen Habits. Copyright 2016. Follow Zen Habits on Twitter.

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