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Hello Folks, I hope you found my earlier post  on common interview questions and suggested answers  informative. Here, I continue with some more questions. Question 5 è   “Why should we select you for this position?” Why indeed! Don’t they know that better? Why ask you to brag about yourself? This question is generally the clincher in the interview.  The intention is to see whether you can market your skills and abilities effectively, and position your candidature to fit the role. The role-fit and culture-fit is being assessed here. Image: https://pixabay.com What you can say: Do your homework for preparing this answer.  List your job-related competencies and relate these to the position you have applied for.  Pitch your unique abilities as key to doing the job successfully. Emphasize your domain knowledge, skills and managerial abilities without sounding boastful. Give examples from your professional life, about instances whe...

Common Interview Questions è   “ Tell me something about yourself.” è  “Can you describe your strengths? What are your weaknesses?” è  “Where do you see yourself five years from now?” è  “Why should we hire you/What can you contribute to the company?” Seems familiar? Reminds you of the time when you had gone all ready to impress at an interview and had been stumped? When you came out of the interview feeling you could have done better? Given above are some examples of questions interviewers love shooting at candidates. Though interviews cannot be generalized, there are some standard questions that are usually asked to test candidate preparedness and self awareness. Interview questions can be categorized into the following; Ø   Those testing knowledge and skill Ø   Those testing confidence and self image Ø   Those testing candidate willingness and adaptability Ø   Those meant for assessing compatib...

I paused at the gates of the dreary building. The very thought of going in filled me with a strange kind of exhaustion, a lethargy I had never experienced before. I sighed. Let’s get the whole thing finished quickly. Dragging my feet, I stepped in and enquired about Baba. The anxious faces around me were awaiting their turn to meet their loved ones - those who had been banished to this rehabilitation home. Those unfortunate enough to be struck with a mental affliction in our country, deserved to rot in hell like this. In his heyday, Baba would have shuddered at such “rehab centres”. He was paranoid about social status and respectability. According to him, people like us did not suffer from mental problems….these things happened only to other “abnormal” people. I thought of the irony of it all. At the fag end of his life, Baba was a prisoner of his own demented mind, a dark shadow of his former self, in this rehab home. The geriatrician, the neurosurgeon, the psychiat...