Job
Interview
Reavez Marayag
Emperador
A job interview is a type of
interview in which it consists of a
conversation between a job applicant
and a representative of an employer.
In addition, this kind of interview is
conducted to assess whether or
not, the applicant should be hired.
Thus, this interview requires your
preparation and carefulness.
Things To
Do Beforehand
• Knowing about yourself to the fullest might help.
• Knowing how to overcome your nervousness might
help a lot.
• Find out about possible questions that might appear
as well as possible answers.
• Make sure that you understand how to explain
or describe every single point inside your
application document.
Get Started
with a Job
Interview
Before directly heading to specific
questions, usually, you would be asked
to describe or tell the one interviewing
you about yourself first.
About
Yourself
• Name (if you think it’s necessary)
• Your latest education
• Your experiences as well as
your achievements (if any)
note: choose the best one or two
related ones to represent you
Some Common &
Possible Questions in a
Job Interview
• How do you know about this job?
• What do you know about this company?
• What interests you about this role?
• What motivates you?
• Why are you leaving your previous job?
• What are your goals in the future?
• Where do you see yourself in the upcoming 4/5 years?
• Why should we hire you?
• What makes you unique?
• What is your greatest challenge and how do you deal
• with/overcome/cope with that?
• How do you handle your stress (especially when it
• comes to the work you’re doing) ?
• How much salary do you expect/want per month?
• How much earning do you want to get per month?
• How much money do you want to earn?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Describing
Strengths
and Weaknesses
When you are encountering an interview, you would
probably be dealing with the question “What are your
strengths and weaknesses?” This type of question is
supposed to be easy to answer as it refers to your
personality. However, it does not work that way
for most people as they are afraid of bragging too
much or risk. Therefore, we would probably need to
learn how to deal with this type of question
(considering that even the most experienced
candidate would also be struggling with it). It is
important to be prepared when it comes to
this kind of question.
Strengths
• Flexible
• Focused
• Creative
• Open-minded
• Scheduled
• Organized
• Innovative
• High self-confident
• Independent and decisive
• Hard-working and determined
• Insecure
• Overly detail-oriented
• Overly analytical
• Nervousness
• Dealing with new people
• Slow in getting used to with
new stuff
• Arrogant
• Judgmental
Weakness
• Explain briefly and clearly (to avoid unnecessarily
information).
• When telling the weaknesses, give the truest
information but arrange your words carefully
(to minimalize the risks). Mentioning what you
have been doing to deal with your weakness
might help.
• Try to avoid mentioning the weakness that has relation to the job.
• Being convinced and convincing when you’re
telling your strengths (to rise the possibilities
of being hired. also mentioning the strengths
that have relation to the job)
• It is okay to not be able to answer a certain question. Do not panic
when it happens to you. However, you cannot just leave the answer
“I do not know”. You must add at least a response/reason to
your answer. In addition, you could also ask time to think about
the answer (if possible), skip and go to the next question, and get
back to the question later with the answer.
Example
• I am sorry/ apologize, Is it possible that we talk about this question later? I’ve been in
that kind of situation. I just need more time to arrange my answer.
• I don’t know how to answer such a question. However, I could try
to find out the best possible answer related to this question
immediately as soon as I get back from the interview.
Things to do during
the interview
• Dress properly once you’re
about to attend the job interview.
• Consider your manner during the interview.
• Do not be too casual and don’t be too stiff.
• Minimalize your movement.
• do not look away when answering the question.
• Do not take too long when answering a
certain question.
Thank you!
Goodluck for your interview