{"id":411791,"date":"2020-07-05T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=411791"},"modified":"2020-07-03T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T11:23:25","slug":"these-are-the-50-most-common-job-interview-questions-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/411791\/these-are-the-50-most-common-job-interview-questions-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the 50 most common job interview questions right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recruitment specialist Glassdoor has published<\/a> <\/strong>a new guide on the most common interview questions prospective employees can expect to face in 2020.<\/p>\n

The list is based on tens of thousands of interview reviews to find out some of the most common interview questions candidates get asked during recent interviews, the group said.<\/p>\n

“When it comes to the interview process, research, and preparation for the interview\u00a0can oftentimes determine your chances of making it to the next step.<\/p>\n

“One of the best ways to get ready for a virtual job interview is to practice your responses to the most common interview questions.”<\/p>\n

The top 50 most common questions are outlined below, based on how frequently they appear.<\/p>\n

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  1. What are your strengths?<\/li>\n
  2. What are your weaknesses?<\/li>\n
  3. Why are you interested in working for (insert company name here)<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  4. Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten years?<\/li>\n
  5. Why do you want to leave your current company?<\/li>\n
  6. Why was there a gap in your employment between (insert date)<\/i> and (insert date)<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  7. What can you offer us that someone else can not?<\/li>\n
  8. What are three things your former manager would like you to improve on?<\/li>\n
  9. Are you willing to relocate?<\/li>\n
  10. Are you willing to travel? (Post Covid-19)<\/li>\n
  11. Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of.<\/li>\n
  12. Tell me about a time you made a mistake.<\/li>\n
  13. What is your dream job?<\/li>\n
  14. How did you hear about this position?<\/li>\n
  15. What would you look to accomplish in the first 30 days\/60 days\/90 days on the job?<\/li>\n
  16. Discuss your resume.<\/li>\n
  17. Discuss your educational background.<\/li>\n
  18. Describe yourself.<\/li>\n
  19. Tell me how you handled a difficult situation.<\/li>\n
  20. Why should we hire you?<\/li>\n
  21. Why are you looking for a new job?<\/li>\n
  22. Would you work holidays\/weekends?<\/li>\n
  23. How would you deal with an angry or irate customer?<\/li>\n
  24. What are your salary requirements?<\/li>\n
  25. Give a time when you went above and beyond the requirements for a project.<\/li>\n
  26. Who are our competitors?<\/li>\n
  27. What was your biggest failure?<\/li>\n
  28. What motivates you?<\/li>\n
  29. What\u2019s your availability?<\/li>\n
  30. Who\u2019s your mentor?<\/li>\n
  31. Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss.<\/li>\n
  32. How do you handle pressure?<\/li>\n
  33. What is the name of our CEO?<\/li>\n
  34. What are your career goals?<\/li>\n
  35. What gets you up in the morning?<\/li>\n
  36. What would your direct reports say about you?<\/li>\n
  37. What were your bosses\u2019 strengths\/weaknesses?<\/li>\n
  38. 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
  39. Are you a leader or a follower?<\/li>\n
  40. What was the last book you\u2019ve read for fun?<\/li>\n
  41. What are your co-worker pet peeves?<\/li>\n
  42. What are your hobbies?<\/li>\n
  43. What is your favorite website?<\/li>\n
  44. What makes you uncomfortable?<\/li>\n
  45. What are some of your leadership experiences?<\/li>\n
  46. How would you fire someone?<\/li>\n
  47. What do you like the most and least about working in this industry?<\/li>\n
  48. Would you work 40+ hours a week?<\/li>\n
  49. What questions haven\u2019t I asked you?<\/li>\n
  50. What questions do you have for me?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \n

    Read: Michael Jordaan on what\u2019s next for companies post Covid-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jobs website Glassdoor has published a new guide on the most common interview questions prospective employees can expect to face in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[7186,26],"class_list":["post-411791","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\/411791","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=411791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413351,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411791\/revisions\/413351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}