Interview Questions

1) Tell us about yourself .

Briefly run through your qualifications and your career in a logical progression.

(2) Tell us about your family background.

The answer again should as brief as your earlier reply. Emphasise personal facts if they help build your profile.

(3) What do you know about our company?

Do not give your opinions about the company. Stick to reported facts that you have gathered from newspapers and so on. Talk about the product portfolio, size, income, and market perceptions of the company.

(4) Your qualifications are excellent, but you may be overqualified for the position we have to offer.

Point out that more experience can never be a drawback. If you are multi-skilled, then highlight the fact that a company on the fast-track needs multi-skilled people. It needs people within different departments to work together. Also emphasise that the company s future growth will be an exponential function of your experience.

(5) Why should we choose you over someone else?

Talk clearly about problems that you have solved in your current workplace and highlight the quality required. For instance, say how by putting systems or buffers in place, you were able to deal with infrastructural problems and reduce inventory pile-up by 40 per cent