How To Answer Job Interview Questions and Answers

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In this video I hope to provide a foundation that you can use to answer almost any interview question you may be asked.

The first half of the foundation is doing research. The research itself is also broken into two parts – researching the company & job listing and researching your own background.

To research the company and job listing, you will consider a lot of different questions. You will want to verify specific skills that they are looking for so you can emphasize them in your interview. You’ll also want to see if there are specific vocabulary words they use to describe processes that maybe you’ve called something else. Ultimately, you want to be on the same page as the future employer.
You will also want to do research on the company through Google on what type of interview questions they ask and who you will be interviewing with. With a smaller company, you may interview with your direct boss or the owner on the first interview. In a larger corporation, you may interview with someone in human resources first before making it to another round of more in-depth interviews. Both situations provide unique ways in which you will want to answer the questions.

You will also want to research yourself. It sounds silly, but you need to go back through your career and take a good inventory of your skills and positive outcomes that you’ve been a part of. You should try and come up with three scenarios from each job that you can use to answer interview questions. They should be specific and with as much detail as possible. Remember to target times where you used skills they are specifically looking for.

The second part of the foundation is how we will come up with our answers or how we will structure them.

The STAR method is important because it gives us a rough guideline for how we will answer. STAR stands for Situation or Task, Action, & Result. The situation or task you were asked to perform in your job that presented a challenge. The action you took to overcome that situation in a positive way. And the result of the situation – what happened?

STAR gives us an outline on how to search back through our career and find good situations that we can re-tell as answers. What we also have to do is turn our STAR answers into a story.

Most good stories are made up of three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Your interview answers should also have a beginning, middle, and end. With STAR as your guide, setting the stage with the situation will be your beginning. The lead up and subsequent action acts as the middle of your story. And the result is the resolution of your story – the ending.

A few key takeaways to spinning your experience into a story:

· You are the hero of the story. And every story is a success story.

· The points of STAR will act as place-markers in your story. From A to B to C.

· Your answer should hit two key points for the employer: you have a skill they are looking for and you have experience you can talk about using that skill.

· Your answer should be in the time range of 2-3 minutes. Any outside information you tell during your story that does not advance the idea of how skilled you are is wasting time.

EXAMPLES

“What is your greatest strength?”

This is a common question that you may be asked. Here’s my answer:

My greatest strength is my ability to communicate. As the Career Services Director I coordinated efforts across departments with my director colleagues to address our collective ability to communicate with students. I was responsible for talking with students after they graduated. Part of that responsibility was working with the director of finance to communicate any financial issues or questions between our director and the student. The director would also help me with additional student contact information from their file if I had lost touch with a student. Our ability to keep a continuous line of communication open between each other and the students helped me to find more students jobs and helped her have more students pay their bills.
The great thing is that this story works for multiple answers. Obviously, you don’t want to give the same answer to multiple questions, but you can use your answers differently depending on the questions asked and the company involved.

So with the example I give above, if I wanted to use a different story to describe my greatest strength I will still have the above story in my back pocket. I could use it to answer questions like, “why should we hire you?”, “tell me about a time when you had to communicate with your co-workers”, or other similar questions.

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