Good Answers To Interview Questions

Here Are Some Good Answers To Interview Questions

1. Tell us something about yourself?

Most people provide a very generic answer to this question by delving too many details about their personal life such as place of birth, details about other family members, religion or political view. The interviewer is not interested in knowing any of this. Instead, you should provide a very brief overview of your education level, places where you previously worked, years of experience along with the departments and your position at your present or former workplace.

2. What is your greatest strength and weakness?

While mentioning your strength, make sure that you correlate it to the position that you held at former or present workplace. For example, if you've been in sales department then you might mention that you love giving people what they want along with having an aggressive attitude to selling which helped you in increasing the sales figures at your former organization.

When it comes to narrating your weaknesses, don't fall into the trap of getting negative about yourself. Understand that everybody has flaws and the interviewer knows that you're not an exception. Simply state some of your weaknesses and the various steps you might have taken for overcoming them.

3. Why do you want to work for us?

The best approach to answer this question would be to research the company before the interview. In addition to doing online research, do try to get in contact with someone who's already working for them. Through this meeting, you can acquaint yourself with the core values of their workplace and the company at large. Also conduct similar research about their competitors and try to gauge the supplemental growth opportunities which you might get by working for this company.

You must not provide any self serving reason, at any point, such as "I need to work for a higher package" even if that's the real reason as to why you want to work for them!

4. Why are you leaving your current job? Or why you left your last job?

A right hand rule of thumb to remember here is to never badmouth about your current or former workplace. This might give a notion that you're a difficult employee to handle. In case you're jobless then don't tell the sobbing story of how you got fired in your last job even if that's the real thing which happened. In case you simply have to tell that you got fired (I can think of no reason why would that be) then provide some "intelligent" reason for the same, such as you got fired due to downsizing, they wanted to post you to some place you didn't wanted to go etc. Never ever give bad performance the reason as to why you got fired even if that's the real culprit.

Keep your response positive at all times and mention the growth opportunities being offered in the interviewer's company which were missing at your former workplace. Also mention that you want to take up additional responsibilities in the organization so as to contribute towards the overall growth of the company.

5. Do you consider yourself a team player or an individual performer?

Honesty would be the best strategy here. No matter you consider yourself a team player or an individual performer, augment your claims by providing relevant examples from your former or current job responsibilities. A better approach would be to say that you can work in a team or even individually based on the requirements of your job responsibilities.

I hope the above good answers to interview questions will help you in your next interview. Make sure you tailor each answer based on your unique position rather than remembering them by heart from some online resource. Good luck!