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 strategies do you use to stay organized?
Comments and Suggested Answer
Give the interviewer a good idea of your general approach to mastering complex tasks.
Include how you decide on time frames, set deadlines, determine priorities, delegate tasks, and decide what to do for yourself.
Organizational skills and time management skills are the key elements in many types of positions.
Stress your ability to think and act in a clear manner whenever required.
Demonstrate your power to delegate and follow-through on any type of project.
Question
Have you ever had your mistakes pointed out to you on the job? How did you handle it?
Comments and Suggested Answer
Describe your accountability and professional attitude when faced with constructive criticism.
Offer a specific project or work habit that caused you a problem until you faced up to it and overcame it.
Show how you have minimized a past weakness.
Question
Tell me about a problem you had with someone whom you worked with, someone that you didn’t like.
Comments and Suggested Answer
Avoid discussing personality clashes and use examples that are specifically vague. Show how you strive to be tolerant of those you work with get along with your peers and associates.
Focus on a difference in the work environment that the interviewer is likely to empathize with.