[H3rmit]

Interview Questions and Answers

I'm preparing for another job interview on Monday. I thought this was an interesting list of "best answers" to many questions. Any thoughts on any of these? I am clueless with people, so I never think of what would play well, but a lot of these answers shed some light on that, which is why I like them, eg, "If you know your boss is 100% wrong about something, how would you handle this?"

Job Interview Question: If You Know Your Boss is Wrong How Would You Handle it?

[John25]

I hope the interview goes well for you!
I have mixed feelings about interview questions and best answers. In general, the interview process has turned into a role-play between two parties.

[redbandit]

Good luck H3rmit!

[H3rmit]

Originally Posted by John25

I hope the interview goes well for you!
I have mixed feelings about interview questions and best answers. In general, the interview process has turned into a role-play between two parties.

One interviewer even told me sometimes it seemed they're hiring more for behaviour than the skills to do the job. (Re behavioral questions.)

I think I understand the role-play, though. In a nutshell, you are supposed to be on your best behaviour, and then they judge what you are capable of at your best.

[avlady]

i got a job one time by smiling nonstop for a 10 minute interview, and i don't even have good teeth.

[Perna]

Interviews seem to depend on how well you and the interviewer click with one another, it's a personality test basically, doesn't really have much scientific correlation with how well you'll do the job. Some people obviously won't work well (when I was a "word processor" and we advertised for an "assistant word processor" as in, another of us, one young girl applied and thought she would be "assisting" us (handing us paper???? What? :-) and had no word processing or even typing skills I think) and they easily weed them out but then they're left with people who applied whose resumes look okay/like they could do the job and it's then a matter of will they fit in okay. That's why people who lie on their resume's often don't get caught for awhile, they sound okay in the interview and are likable and the interviewer usually isn't intimately familiar with that job or just has a vague idea what they want from the person and/or the job is like that, etc.

[H3rmit]

Originally Posted by Perna

Interviews seem to depend on how well you and the interviewer click with one another, it's a personality test basically, doesn't really have much scientific correlation with how well you'll do the job.

Yeah, probably a lot of jobs are like that, but not Canadian federal government jobs. They have a process, a method, criteria. I'm sure subjective liking creeps in, but it doesn't dominate.