How To Successfully Navigate Those Tricky Interview Question The shortage of skills have forced many hiring managers to adopt a more in-depth hiring process to ensure that they find the right candidates. Although in the past many managers treated the interview process as not very important, you look around now and what you’ll notice at the heart of most great companies, is an incredibly strong emphasis on the hiring process. The success of a business is in the hands of the employees. They take hundreds--probably thousands--of individual actions on the company’s behalf every day. It follows, therefore, that one of the most important tasks of any leader is to ensure that the hiring process is in itself highly successful. The feedback from job seekers in the past year is that they were often faced …show more content…
It’s important to be realistic in the answer to this question. Remember to not make promises you can’t keep in the interview especially not knowing the full situation with a specific job. (It might have been vacant for a couple of months, with work piling up etc) It’s best to admit that there will be a learning curve to get up to speed in the new position. List your main skills and how these will be directly applicable if you get the job. Back your claims up with achievements from your previous jobs, preferably quantified. Where do you see your career in five years? Predicting the future is impossible, but communicating a vision for your career is essential. Interviewers are asking this question, as they want to know that you're not just applying for jobs randomly and taking whatever you can get. It’s important to do your research in terms of the company and the career path they could possible offer you including the position above the one you are applying for. The response you want to give is that you are ambitious and would like to move up in the company and not just take the next job offer that comes