interview questions, tips & advice
Below are more interview questions to help you prepare for you interview. Each section gives a situation, a sample question, appropriate answer and advice for those questions.
8. Questions regarding “Salary Expectations”
Everyone wants to make a lot of money working the job they love. You should be honest here, saying that you will be ok working for $30,000 when you think you are worth $40,000 is not a very smart idea. Experience will show that you will lose interest in the job pretty quickly.
Sample Question: "Tell me about your salary expectations."
Answer: "Current salary information published by our State Association indicates a range of $30,000 to $40,000 a year. While I'm not certain how your salaries compare to this industry, my feeling is that my value would certainly be in the upper half of this national range."
Advice: You should answer this question in general terms. Mention the market value for yourself.
7. Questions regarding “Helping the Company”
When you are looking for a job, an employer will want to know what you can do to help or improve their company. Now is the time to tell them of your proven skills and knowledge that you gained at some of your other previous jobs.
Sample Question: "Give me an example of how you can help my company."
Answer: "In my previous career my biggest contribution was my ability to accurately measure customer satisfaction and to continually feed this information back to our design and production departments. I developed special questionnaires, used focus groups and personally spent 10% of my time talking to customers. This attention to customer satisfaction is relevant in your industry as well. I look forward to adopting my quality program to a new type of product."
Advice: Use an example of a significant contribution you made in your past job that impacted the bottom line. Show how this ability transfers across industries from one functional area to another.
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