Question

What are your top strengths?

Comments and Suggested Answer

The interviewer is trying to match your strengths to the requirements of the position.

Be sure to mention the strengths that are relevant to the job and company.

Talk about your key skills and how you’ll use them in this job. Offer specific evidence, drawing parallels from your current or previous job to the job you are interviewing for.

Question

Do you manage your time well?
 
Comments and Suggested Answer

Yes! You are a self-starter and almost never procrastinate.

Emphasize that you can set goals, prioritize their tasks and devote adequate and appropriate amounts of time to each one.

Question

What makes you unique and why should we hire you over any of our other candidates?

Comments and Suggested Answer

Use this question as an opportunity to stress your strengths, experience, education, and skills. Emphasize a few of your strongest qualifications and relate them to the position in question.

Prepare at least three key reasons to show how you are better than the other candidates.

Use specific examples to illustrate your reasons, something unusual or unique that will help them remember you.

Question

Tell me about one of your projects that failed.

Comments and Suggested Answer

Demonstrate the ability here to be humble and to learn from your mistakes.

Explain what you are now aware of, what you could have done differently, and how that awareness has brought you growth and development.