Last week I found an interesting book called Ultimate Guide To Job Interview Answers. Having myself hired many people I was intrigued what
book had to offer. Of course before being responsible for hiring people, I had been on opposite side of table -- being interviewed.I have seen 90% of job interviews going over same old questions, again and again. Sometimes questions were funny and sometimes they were just irritating. This is because of "allocation of labor" -- HR may not understand exact requirements of R&D. Even if candidate is perfect for R&D, person may get screened out during selection process.
Coming back to book, I surfed through authors comments, customer testimonials and table of contents of book. When I went through some of sample questions, I felt that this is what I would have asked if I were interviewer.
Here are some interview question/answer I found interesting.
Q. What have you learned from your mistakes? A. "Good question. Well, I have been successful at every job I have had, but I have had normal ups and downs. I'd say that I do actively try to monitor my work habits and quality of my work so that I can constantly be improving myself. FOR EXAMPLE, I have had one or two hiccups with customers where their satisfaction was not where I thought it was. I learned that I have to really monitor certain difficult customers closely and "take their temperature" so I can keep their satisfaction level as high as possible. Have you had any customers like that here?"
