JOB INTERVIEW

RECRUITMENT

SELECTION
TRAINING
APPRAISAL
TRANSFER
TERMINATION

Modern business organization

Related employment
1. Appraisal : Monitoring, helping, career
path
2. Disciplinary
3. Workforce bargaining
4. Developing and supervising payment
5. Health and safety
6. Equal opportunities

Personnel needs
What job entail
What qualities
incentives

Recruitment
Job analysis : task
skills
abilities
activity
performance
Job description : title of the job
to/for whom responsible
Role and duties

Specification

Physical make up
Physical grooming
Attainment
Intelligence
Aptitudes
Interest
Disposition
Circumstances
Selection
Abilities
Test

Interest Inventories

Fair
Legal
Honest
Objectives
quick

Appraisal

Reliability
Judgment
Application
Initiative
Adaptability
disposition

Words of advice
Along with the advancement of quality of
interviewing is being done to recruit the
candidate employee that is getting
advanced
The better the qualification you have it, the
higher the opportunity we would have

Job interview
Purpose :

- Demonstrate skills and abilities

- Job induction
- Resume outperform
Type of interviewing
- Structure
- Representative
- Comprehensive
- Pressure
- Grouped

Stages of interviewing
Open stage of interviewing
1. Education background
- level of education
- time, place of certification
- How succeed the applicant
- The best / the worst subject
- Extra Co- curricular
- Financial matters on education
- opinion about applicants education
happy and sorrow
purposely / sincerely

Working experience

Special task and responsibilities

Achievement
Promotion, salary, wages, and scheme
Opportunity
Failure and solution
Like and dislike
Reasons for quitting the job

Skills and abilities orientation

The best achievement
Future planning
contribution

Interviewing technique

Show to the interviewer what you can do

Open minded and pro active
Be ready, always
Offer questions and responds
some tips
Positively and sincerely to listen
Pay attention
Openness
Giving comments

12 common questions
1. Explain briefly about yourself : degree,
program, university, ambitions,
experience
2. Why did you interested to apply for this
job? Reputation, opportunity, experience
3. Hobby and interest? Related to your job
4. The biggest weakness? Tell them to
show your honest and sincere

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5. Experience related to the job applied?
6. What do you expect within 5 to 10 years?
motivation, contribution, planning
do not say : I really dont know..
7. What will you do if?
intelligence, skills, and abilities
8. Is it important a job for you? Why?
9. Usually I employ those who are most experience
10. Why should I employ you for this position?
11. How much salary do you expect?
12. Do you have any other question

Obstacles of interviewing
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Talkative interviewer
The interviewer doesnt like you
Hard and uncommon sense question
Late coming
Sidestepping of point of interviewing
Offering uninterested position
Dumping interview/vociferous grouped
question
8. Limited opportunities

Preparation
Dont judge the book through the cover
Performance : physical, attainment,
intelligence, aptitudes, interest,
disposition, circumstances
Entering the interviewing area
Leaving the room

Point of being failures

Un proper performance
Arrogance, over reactive, too attractive
Unclear expression of yours
Less information and experience
Less preparation
Less interest to the job
Unclear future planning
Less enthusiasm, passive, neglegence

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Less self confidence, nervous

Less proven achievement
Money orientation
Common academic achievement
Reactive, just wait and see
Lying, unwise, lack mature, impolite
Underestimate the company
Less vitality, less eye contact, reasoning

Sample of questions
NAME
What is your name?
What is your full name?
What is your family name?
How should I Call you?
What is your nickname?
May I have your name?
Could you spell your name?

You and your family

Are you single?

Are you married?
Where do you live?
Do you live with your parents?
Is it far from here?
Where do your parent come from?
How many family members do you have?
Which number are you in the family?
What does your father do?

family
Does your mother work too?
How many brother and sister do you
have?
What does your brother or sister do?
How old are you?
Were you born and grow up in this city?
Why do you stay in this city?
How long have you been here

Family

Where and when were you born?

Where did you spend your childhood?
Do you always talk with your family?
What kind of book do you like to read

Life, expectation and ambitions

What is your biggest concern in your life?

What is your future planning?
What is your ambition now?
What do you want to do in your life?
What is your life concept?
What basic principles do you apply to your
life?
What do you expect from this life?

Personality
What kind of personality do you think you
have?
How would you describe yourself?
Are you more for being followers or
leaders?
Tell me about your strength and weakness
What is the best personality do you have?
Are you highly motivated person?

People respected

Do you have close friend?

Would describe about your close friend?
What do you think about friendship?
Can you mention a person that respect
most? Why?
What kind of person do you hate most?
Why?

Company and work

What made you choose this company?

Do you have any relative in this company?
How did you know about this company?
Tell me what you know about this
company?
Do you know anyone who works for this
company?
Do you have a special connection in this
company

Company and work

What is your contribution to this company
if you are accepted by this company?
What is your next planning if are not
accepted by this company?
What do you expect from this company in
the future?
What can you do for this company?
In making decision, do you always act
objectively

Company and work

Do you often ask for another advice before
making a decision?
If we decide to employ you, are prefer to
work overtime?
How much salary do you expect from this
company?
If the salary we are offering to you is lower
than your expectation, will you accept it?

Education
Could you please tell me about your
formal education background?
When did you graduate from your
institution?
What university did you graduate from?
What is your major?
Can you tell me more specific about your
program?

Education
What subject do you like most? Why?
Do you have any financial matters when
you are studying?
Do you think that the skills you have
gotten that can be implemented in this
company?
Why dont you go further to continue your
education level?

Working experience
What kind of job have you ever had?
Why did you leave from that job?
What tasks and responsibilities did you
carry on your previous job?
What is the most difficult thing for you to
do in your previous job?
Why do you often change your job?
What type of job do you like most? Why?

Working experience
Why did you choose your particular field of
job?
Do you always sent your application letters
to other company?
How would you settle if you have
disagreement among your job?

Aptitude and Preference

Do you prefer to work in any specific
geographic location? Why?
Are you a member of social organization?
What is you important role in that
organization?
What personal characteristics that you feel
necessary to gain succeed in your field of
organization?

Work habit
Do you like to work with others or
independently?
Have you ever had any difficulty in getting
along with colleagues?
How do you for overtime working?
Which one do you like? Working in a large
company or small company? Why?

Question to be asked to the

interviewer

The major responsibilities of the job

Expected candidate employees quality
Related training
What is the first problem that needs the
attention of the person you hire?
What are the major companies strength
and weakness?
Who are the major companies competitor

interviewer
What are their strenght and weakness?
What makes your organization differ from
others/
What your organization major market?
Does the company has any plan to
produce a new product?
Service? Takeover? merger? Or any
acquisition?

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What additional training does your
organization provide?
Does any employee have opportunity to
be promoted in the higher level?
Why this job is vacant now?

Important notes

Do not shake hand while wet fish

Do not simply answer yes or no
Correct the sentence
Control your speech
Speak clearly
Use simple words
Eye contact
Giving responds

Strategic opening
Hard question : That a good question sir, but I
think that
Not clear : Would you rephrase back your
question sir, what does it meant
I didnt get your point, would you be kind to
make it clear
In my humble opinion that.
Do not answer question by saying :
perhaps..
It would be better if
In my opinion, I think.

ASSIGNMENT
You are grouped into 2 each member to
perform interview role play
- construct the scenario
- perform it in front of the class room