Sample Interview Questions 2 share
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Just to share to those in the market:
Sample Interview Questions
Communication Skills
Describe a situation when you had to convince someone of your opinion. Specifically, what did you do or say to convince them?
Describe a situation when you felt good about your listening skills. What exactly did you say and do?
Give an example of a time when you had difficulty getting your point across to an individual or a group. How did you resolve this communication challenge?
Describe the most difficult time you've had in giving instructions to someone.
Give me a specific example of a time when you've had to adjust your writing style to meet someone's needs (management, peer, customer, etc.). What did you take into consideration?
Tell me about the last time you had to deal with someone who was angry or upset. What did you say or do? What was the outcome?
Organizing and Planning Skills
Tell me about how you plan and organize your work. What do you do to make sure deadlines are met?
Describe the most extensive long-range planning you've had to do. Tell me about how you set up your plan, step-by-step.
Give me an example of a time you maximized your travel schedule.
Give me an example of a time when your schedule was upset by unforeseen circumstances. What did you do then?
Tell me about a situation at work that required several things to be done at the same time. How did you handle it?
In what way do you feel you have improved in your planning in the last few years?
Leadership/Teamwork/Interpersonal Skills
Share with us an experience or work situation where your teamwork skills were put to use to accomplish a goal? (Team effort for providing production support and working as a team member with users)
What leadership experience do you have ? either as a team leader or otherwise? (Necessary for users to have confidence in you and how you approach situations with appropriate assertiveness.)
Describe what you view as important skills and/or characteristics of a good team member/leader.
What are your strengths in working with people?
Tell me about the last time you had to tell someone that he or she wasn't doing a good job. What was the outcome?
Tell me about the last time you had a really good idea and had to persuade someone to accept it.
Describe an example of a situation that you feel demonstrates your leadership ability.
Describe the type of relationship that should exist between a supervisor and his/her direct reports.
How would you describe your style of managing people?
How do you decide what to spend your work time on?
What tools, methods or processes do you use to manage your performance and/or your subordinates' performance to ensure alignment with your company's strategies and business goals?
Which do you enjoy more: Being able to focus completely on one task or project until completion or having multiple initiatives under way at one time? Why?
Customer Focus/Quality Commitment
Please share with me one example of how you demonstrated customer focus.
Please tell me about a time when you were successful with building a relationship where others had not succeeded. To what do you credit your success?
Describe a situation where priorities had to be juggled to meet a customer or business requirement and how you managed team resources to meet that requirement.
Job Knowledge/Analytical Skills
Describe your problem-solving skills. Give examples of when these served you particularly well.
Give an example of a problem you needed to solve and explain what steps you followed to resolve the problem.
Can you describe a current example of a problem you solved through some innovative manner or approach?
What is your experience in business application support or programming and what computer systems did these applications run on (e.g., Mainframe, PC, LAN, distributed environment, etc.)?
Describe a situation where you implemented a technical solution in support of a specific business process or requirement.
What experience do you have in supporting a production environment? Give specific examples.
Describe your experience in analyzing system functionality requirements.
Sample Interview Questions
Communication Skills
Describe a situation when you had to convince someone of your opinion. Specifically, what did you do or say to convince them?
Describe a situation when you felt good about your listening skills. What exactly did you say and do?
Give an example of a time when you had difficulty getting your point across to an individual or a group. How did you resolve this communication challenge?
Describe the most difficult time you've had in giving instructions to someone.
Give me a specific example of a time when you've had to adjust your writing style to meet someone's needs (management, peer, customer, etc.). What did you take into consideration?
Tell me about the last time you had to deal with someone who was angry or upset. What did you say or do? What was the outcome?
Organizing and Planning Skills
Tell me about how you plan and organize your work. What do you do to make sure deadlines are met?
Describe the most extensive long-range planning you've had to do. Tell me about how you set up your plan, step-by-step.
Give me an example of a time you maximized your travel schedule.
Give me an example of a time when your schedule was upset by unforeseen circumstances. What did you do then?
Tell me about a situation at work that required several things to be done at the same time. How did you handle it?
In what way do you feel you have improved in your planning in the last few years?
Leadership/Teamwork/Interpersonal Skills
Share with us an experience or work situation where your teamwork skills were put to use to accomplish a goal? (Team effort for providing production support and working as a team member with users)
What leadership experience do you have ? either as a team leader or otherwise? (Necessary for users to have confidence in you and how you approach situations with appropriate assertiveness.)
Describe what you view as important skills and/or characteristics of a good team member/leader.
What are your strengths in working with people?
Tell me about the last time you had to tell someone that he or she wasn't doing a good job. What was the outcome?
Tell me about the last time you had a really good idea and had to persuade someone to accept it.
Describe an example of a situation that you feel demonstrates your leadership ability.
Describe the type of relationship that should exist between a supervisor and his/her direct reports.
How would you describe your style of managing people?
How do you decide what to spend your work time on?
What tools, methods or processes do you use to manage your performance and/or your subordinates' performance to ensure alignment with your company's strategies and business goals?
Which do you enjoy more: Being able to focus completely on one task or project until completion or having multiple initiatives under way at one time? Why?
Customer Focus/Quality Commitment
Please share with me one example of how you demonstrated customer focus.
Please tell me about a time when you were successful with building a relationship where others had not succeeded. To what do you credit your success?
Describe a situation where priorities had to be juggled to meet a customer or business requirement and how you managed team resources to meet that requirement.
Job Knowledge/Analytical Skills
Describe your problem-solving skills. Give examples of when these served you particularly well.
Give an example of a problem you needed to solve and explain what steps you followed to resolve the problem.
Can you describe a current example of a problem you solved through some innovative manner or approach?
What is your experience in business application support or programming and what computer systems did these applications run on (e.g., Mainframe, PC, LAN, distributed environment, etc.)?
Describe a situation where you implemented a technical solution in support of a specific business process or requirement.
What experience do you have in supporting a production environment? Give specific examples.
Describe your experience in analyzing system functionality requirements.
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AVR:Pioneer Elite SC-07
Surrounds: RTis
2channel:Rti100 (carver driven
Sub:SVS PB12-Plus/2
Dedicated AMPs:Adcom GFA535, 2xCarver 1.5t, Carver m1.0t
Wsrn:Hitachi ultra vision LCD60, 32XBR400
PowerConditioner: MonsterC HTS5100
PS3, Toshiba HD A2, etc: SonySACD/ Panasonic gears DIVX.
MR3LIGION: Polkaudio; GSXR; E46; Reeftank;
Odyclub; Xsimulator; Sony; Zune; Canon
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Pretty accurate list of commonly asked questions. Could be useful to someone with a big interview coming up."Dr Dunn admitted that his research could also be interpreted as evidence that women are shallower than men. He said: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."
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Another tip for those on the market... do a quick google search for what behavioral competencies are important for your intended job. Thinking of a first-line manager job? Business unit exec? There are well-documented lists of the competencies important for those roles...
For each competency you find/agree to be important for the job you're interviewing for, prepare by listing out a few critical incidents for each.
A critical incident is defined as a concise description of the situation, the behavior YOU took in response to the situation, and the outcome. (It's important to come up with incidents where YOU took action, versus where WE took action...hiring mgrs are going to want to know what you specifically did to respond to a stimulus).
Having a matrix of competencies x critical incidents will prepare you very well for behavioral interviews (e.g. tell me about a time when...), but don't forget to be very familiar with what you have on your resume and be prepared to talk about and/or demonstrate any technical / analytical skills you claim to have at any point.
Finally, be prepared with a list of questions for the employer. Show interest, do your research on the organization, ask to talk to other employees not on the interviewing panel.
If nothing else, dress professional and act confident (but not arrogant)! -
What a bunch of crap. Thank god I work in a technical field with real interview
questions."The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson -
sucks2beme wrote: »What a bunch of crap. Thank god I work in a technical field with real interview
questions.
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