{"id":291462,"date":"2018-12-27T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=291462"},"modified":"2018-12-23T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T10:03:33","slug":"50-most-common-interview-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/291462\/50-most-common-interview-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"50 most common interview questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the interview process, research and preparation for the interview can oftentimes determine your chances of making it to the next step.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best ways to get ready for a job interview is to practice your responses to the most common interview questions, says recruitment specialist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassdoor.com\/blog\/common-interview-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glassdoor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To help you get started, Glassdoor sifted through tens of thousands of interview reviews to find out some of the most common interview questions candidates get asked during recent interviews.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you have a job interview lined up, practice in front of a mirror or ask a friend or family member to listen to your answers to the following questions so you\u2019ll be ready to put your best foot forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most Common Interview Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are your strengths?<\/li>\n<li>What are your weaknesses?<\/li>\n<li>Why are you interested in working for [insert company name here]?<\/li>\n<li>Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten years?<\/li>\n<li>Why do you want to leave your current company?<\/li>\n<li>Why was there a gap in your employment between [insert date] and [insert date]?<\/li>\n<li>What can you offer us that someone else can not?<\/li>\n<li>What are three things your former manager would like you to improve on?<\/li>\n<li>Are you willing to relocate?<\/li>\n<li>Are you willing to travel?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of.<\/li>\n<li>Tell me about a time you made a mistake.<\/li>\n<li>What is your dream job?<\/li>\n<li>How did you hear about this position?<\/li>\n<li>What would you look to accomplish in the first 30 days\/60 days\/90 days on the job?<\/li>\n<li>Discuss your resume.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss your educational background.Describe yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Tell me how you handled a difficult situation.<\/li>\n<li>Why should we hire you?<\/li>\n<li>Why are you looking for a new job?<\/li>\n<li>Would you work holidays\/weekends?<\/li>\n<li>How would you deal with an angry or irate customer?<\/li>\n<li>What are your salary requirements?<\/li>\n<li>Give a time when you went above and beyond the requirements for a project.<\/li>\n<li>Who are our competitors?<\/li>\n<li>What was your biggest failure?<\/li>\n<li>What motivates you?<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s your availability?<\/li>\n<li>Who\u2019s your mentor?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss.<\/li>\n<li>How do you handle pressure?<\/li>\n<li>What is the name of our CEO?<\/li>\n<li>What are your career goals?<\/li>\n<li>What gets you up in the morning?<\/li>\n<li>What would your direct reports say about you?<\/li>\n<li>What were your bosses\u2019 strengths\/weaknesses?<\/li>\n<li>If I called your boss right now and asked him\/her what is an area that you could improve on, what would he\/she say?<\/li>\n<li>Are you a leader or a follower?<\/li>\n<li>What was the last book you\u2019ve read for fun?<\/li>\n<li>What are your co-worker pet peeves?<\/li>\n<li>What are your hobbies?<\/li>\n<li>What is your favorite website?<\/li>\n<li>What makes you uncomfortable?<\/li>\n<li>What are some of your leadership experiences?<\/li>\n<li>How would you fire someone?<\/li>\n<li>What do you like the most and least about working in this industry?<\/li>\n<li>Would you work 40+ hours a week?<\/li>\n<li>What questions haven\u2019t I asked you?<\/li>\n<li>What questions do you have for me?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/281501\/21-words-you-should-never-include-in-your-cv-including-rockstar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21 words you should never include in your CV including \u2018rockstar\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to get ready for a job interview is to practice your responses to the most common interview questions, says recruitment specialist, Glassdoor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":267145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[7186,26],"class_list":["post-291462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-glassdoor","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291464,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291462\/revisions\/291464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}