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Established Job-Seeker/Career Changer:
Intermediate Mix of Job Interview Practice Questions

 

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Are you prepared for your next interview? How well can you answer these 20 intermediate mixed job interview questions -- a combination of tough traditional and intermediate questions? Take our practice interview by placing your response to each question in the text blocks below.   Once you've completed your responses, send the form to us by pressing the submit button. Print out a copy of the response page so you'll have a copy of your answers. We'll then send you a sample excellent response for each question so that you can compare how you answered each job interview question with our response.   Your full name: Your email address: (e.g.: you@aol.com) Please re-enter your email address:   If You Use Yahoo, Read This Note! Do you have an unfriendly email server? If you use Yahoo for your email, the answer is yes. Yahoo consistently is bouncing email sent from the QuintCareers server -- and you will not receive your subscription to QuintZine. You can certainly contact Yahoo and encourage it to whitelist quintcareers.com, but in the meantime, you should submit this with an alternate email account.   1. Give two examples of things you've done in previous jobs that demonstrate your willingness to work hard.   2. Describe the last time that you undertook a project that demanded a lot of initiative.   3. What is the most competitive work situation you have experienced? How did you handle it? What was the result?   4. Tell about a time when you built rapport quickly with someone under difficult conditions.   5. Describe a situation where you felt you had not communicated well. How did you correct the situation?   6. What do you do when you are faced with an obstacle to an important project? Give an example.   7. Tell about the most difficult or frustrating individual that you've ever had to work with, and how you managed to work with that person.   8. Describe a team experience you found disappointing. What could you have done to prevent it?   9. Recall a situation in which communications were poor. How did you handle it?   10. On occasion we are confronted by dishonesty in the workplace. Tell about such an occurrence and how you handled it.   11. How would you define "success" for someone in your chosen career?   12. What criteria are you using to choose companies to interview with?   13. If you were hiring for this position, what qualities would you look for?   14. How would you describe your leadership skills?   15. Which is more important: creativity or efficiency? Why?   16. What was the toughest challenge you've ever faced?   17. What two or three things are most important to you in your job?   18. Some people work best as part of a group -- others prefer the role of individual contributor. How would you describe yourself?   19. What, in your opinion, are the key ingredients in guiding and maintaining successful business relationships?   20. What sorts of things have you done to become better qualified for your career?

 

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