Job Winner’s Strategy to Answering Interview Questions
Experts cannot be wrong. Human Resources personnel, professional recruiters and various other career experts all agree: one of the best ways to prepare yourself for a job interview is to anticipate questions, develop your answers, and practice, practice, practice.
This website provides lists of popular IT job interview questions, and more importantly, the winning answers. Knowing the types of questions to expect can be very useful. But knowing how to answer those questions can mean the difference between getting the job and getting the “reject letter.”
Here’s the recommended strategy to help you win the job interview:
1. List your best selling points for the position. What qualifications, skills, experience, knowledge, background, personality traits do you possess that would apply to this job? Write them down and look for opportunities to work them into your answers.
2. List probable questions for this position. You should develop your own list of probable questions based specifically on the job for which you are applying. Put yourself in the hiring manager’s shoes… what kinds of questions would you ask to find the best person for this job?
3. Prepare your answers to likely questions. Review and edit them until you feel they are “just right.” Read them over and over until you are comfortable that you know them fairly well. Don’t try to memorize them; don’t worry about remembering every word. Practice saying them out loud. If possible, have a friend help you rehearse for the interview.
4. Prepare key phrases for the interview. If you’ve got a copy of the job announcement for the position you’ll be interviewing for, study that carefully. Note the phrases they use when describing the desired qualifications. You’ll want to target these as much as possible when developing your answers and during the interview conversation. For example, if the announcement says they want someone with “strong database administration skills,” make sure you include “strong database administration skills” in at least one of your answers. Prepare a sentence like “I have strong DBA skills and in have administratered large scale database server for both Oracle and DB2.”
5. Don’t use canned answers. It is very important that you customize your interview question answers as much as possible even though you can find many well crafted answers from this website. Interviewers can spot “canned” answers a mile away, and if they suspect you are regurgitating answers that are not your own, you can kiss that job goodbye. You must apply your own experiences, personality and style to answer the questions in your own way. This is crucial, and it will give you a big advantage over candidates who simply recite answers they’ve read in a book or website.
In general, if you prepare well, you have much better chance to win the job. However, you should be aware of the important facts out of your control: There is no way to predict every question you will be asked during a job interview. In other words, expect unexpected questions–they’ll come up no matter how much preparation you do.
Are you afraid of interview? Don’t! Job interview questions are not things to fear, they are opportunities to excel. They allow you to show why you are the best person for the job, so
instead of dreading them, look forward to them! The key is to give better answers than anyone else, and win the job offer.
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