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Oct 2015
10:56am, 6 Oct 2015
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Elsie Too
These are great - thanks guys, keep them coming!
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Oct 2015
10:56am, 6 Oct 2015
5,145 posts
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pedroscalls
I was asked describe yourself in 3 words.
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Oct 2015
10:57am, 6 Oct 2015
4,125 posts
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WA
Sorry, continuing professional development.
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Oct 2015
10:58am, 6 Oct 2015
1,508 posts
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Elsie Too
Thank you - I should know that!
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Oct 2015
10:58am, 6 Oct 2015
4,642 posts
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BaronessBL
Conversely the most stupid question I was ever asked in a job interview (in my opinion anyway) was:
"If this company was an animal - what animal do you think it would be?"
The right answer is not ..... FFS what sort of a question is that 
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Oct 2015
10:59am, 6 Oct 2015
1,509 posts
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Elsie Too
That is exactly what my first thought would be - I don't think I would have the guts to actually say it in an interview though!
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Oct 2015
11:04am, 6 Oct 2015
16,522 posts
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fetcheveryone
The 'why do you want to work for us?' is a good question to have a good answer to - it can separate your friend from the folks who are just turning up for interviews. Worth looking at their website, and their social presence - what sort of image do they attempt to illustrate publicly, and how does this translate into their internal company culture (great opportunity for your friend to subtly turn this question back onto them).
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Oct 2015
11:18am, 6 Oct 2015
174 posts
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Shadowless Formless Legs
When I used to have to interview people (in a previous job), our HR department used to insist on us asking evidence/competency based questions along the lines of:
"Can you give me an example of when you have had to work with someone who is underperforming?"
And then follow up with additional questions eg. "What did you do to help them to improve?", "What were the results?", "Would you change anything about your approach?" etc if they didn't provide enough of a full answer.
Rather than questions that you can easily bluff your way through.
There was a specific set of things that they were looking for in the answers.
I believe that it was called the STAR technique so googling that and preparing some real life (or convincingly invented) examples should help.
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Oct 2015
11:21am, 6 Oct 2015
1,510 posts
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Elsie Too
Thanks Shadowless, that's really helpful, will google
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Oct 2015
11:40am, 6 Oct 2015
6,738 posts
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GordonG
As someone who interviews others quite a bit I always think the "what are your weaknesses" -type questions are limited in scope cos no one worth their salt is going to admit to anything bad! But when I'm asked it, I always identify something vague but emphasise what it is I'm doing - or, better still, what I "have done" in the past 12 months - to address the issue. This turns a negative into a positive. And it's pretty much unprovable, too!
I like to ask "how would you explain this role to someone who doesn't work in this industry?" [i.e. no jargon] This will tell me how much they understand what they're applying for.
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