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Selling Yourself in an Employment Interview
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Claims & Credibility -- The Essence of Selling
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Chapter 12: (continued)
Some questions to practise-And convince you that you can't anticipate all the questions
From the book How to Prepare for an Employment Interview.
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[Chapter 12: continued from here ] 21. Give an example of a problem you solved and how you went about it.
22. How do you plan your time?
Obviously, you won't be faced with every question is this list in any one interview, but don't be surprised if you run into one or two the next time you go in to talk with an employer.
23. What aspects of that job would you be able to do better now?
24. What were some of your most important accomplishments in that position?
25. How would you want to be evaluated in this position?
26. Have you ever been fired?
27. What values are important to you?
28. Why are you changing careers?
29. How would you handle it if someone got angry with you?
30. Tell me about a failure in your life and how you dealt with it.
31. What aspect of that job did you find most difficult?
32. What would you do if you won the lottery?
33. What are you hoping to get out of this position?
34. How did you choose to be in this kind of work?
35. What does success mean to you?
36. How many hours a week do you usually work?
37. What did you do in between these two jobs?
38. What kind of customers have you worked with?
39. How well do you know this software?
40. How have you contributed to the companies you were with?
41. How do you deal with change?
42. What are your work values?
43. How were employees...[continued here]
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