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A Job Interview in English

'Important and Popular Basic Questions with Answers in the Job Interview'

1. Tell me a little about yourself ?
"I am a hard worker and I like to take on a variety of challenges. I like pets and watching games, specially Cricket and Snooker, in my spare time.
I like to relax and read the newspaper and articles."

2. What are your strengths? 
"I've always been a great team player. I'm good at keeping a team together and producing quality work in a team environment."

3. What are your weaknesses?
"I feel my English ability is my weakest trait. But this is only a temporary problem. I am sure. I'm definitely studying hard to communicate more effectively."

4. What are your short term goals?
"My goal is to always perform at an exceptional level. But a short term goal I have set for myself is to implement a process that increases work efficiency."

5. What are your long term goals?
"I've always loved to teach. I like to grow newer employees and help co-workers where ever I can. So in the future, I would love to be an instructor."

6. What do you want to be doing five years from now?
"In five years, I want to be a senior analyst. I want my expertise to directly impact the company in a positive way."

7. If you could change one thing about your personality, what would it be and why?
"I have high expectations and I have these expectations on others. I think if I was more understanding, I could help other workers improve instead of being disappointed."

8. What does success mean to you?
"Success means to produce high quality work before the deadline."

9. What does failure mean to you?
"I think, failure means to have a goal and not do anything about it."

10. Are you an organized person?
"I think I'm quite organized. I like my documents and papers in a way where I can retrieve them quickly. I also organize my work in a way where it's easy to see exactly what I'm doing."

11. Do you manage your time well?
"I'm good at managing my time. I stay busy both at home and at work and being able to manage my time is necessary for me to do everything that I want to do."

12. How do you make important decisions?
"I believe all decisions should be made by having all the information. If you are missing an important detail, it's easy to make a bad decision.
So I make important decisions by having all of the information."

13. Do you work well under pressure?
"I work well under pressure because I use the pressure to help me work more efficiently."

14. Why should I hire you?
"There are two reasons I should be hired. 
First, my qualifications match your needs perfectly.
Second, I'm excited and passionate about this industry or company and will always give 100%."

15. Tell me about a time you made a good decision ?
"During my last project, we ran into a difficult problem. This was high priority so everyone was instructed to find a solution. I started looking for more information on the Internet,
I even talked to a different manager on a different team. This helped tremendously and our problem was solved. I made a decision to use every resource I could find, and in the end, it solved the problem."