Job Interview & Career Guide

Do not let this question throw you off track.
For most, with some interview experience under their belt, they may have come across this “5-year forecast” interview question in the past.
This article discusses the meaning behind the interview question “where do you see yourself 5 years from now” and provides suggests on how to answer this question wisely.

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Seriously Considering a Career Break?
Taking a career break. The gap year. A sabbatical. Basically, you need time off, you want to refresh and recharge, you need a change of scenery, or maybe it’s necessary for you to leave and not by choice.
This article discusses career break options and provides some career break ideas.

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Competency based questions have long been considered as tricky questions and questions that are thrown towards a prospective interviewee when the interviewer seems to have nothing else to quest. However, nothing can be farther from the truth. The competency based answers during a job interview are quite an intelligent and quick way to find out about the attitude and mindset of the individual who has applied for the job.

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This article provides a good list of answers and examples on how to answer the questions “what are your weaknesses and strengths.

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Interviews are short, crisp, and very important parts of your career. A good interview can make your career and a bad interview can either offer you progress at the best and seriously hamper your progress at worst. Therefore, it is very important to be completely ready knowing what to say when you attend an interview. In addition, whatever the post be, or whatever the job position be, you should clearly know what not to say in the interview.

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The project manager is often the most important role within any company’s product cycle or project life cycle.
As the name suggests, the project manager is the person who manages projects based on time-schedule, quality and budget. Therefore, he or she also manages directly or indirectly some of the company’s employees.
This article provides wide-ranging project management interview questions and answers for the project manager (PMO) as well as for the product manager position.

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Some of these job interview questions are trick questions, which are basically asked in a bid to differentiate between the good interviewees and the best interviewees.
One such tricky question can be asked in different ways:
1. Why did you take up this profession?
2. Why you choose this career/job?
3. Why did you select this career out of many others?

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This article explains how to write sample of career objectives and provides examples of career objectives that you may use for your resume.

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Like all things in life, getting fired is a reality. Of course, sometimes the job may be so pathetic that you are really happy that you were kicked out of the job, while at some other times the job was really good for you and you tried your best not to get fired.
This article provides the inputs on how to handle ‘why were you fired?’ interview question. How to explain why you were fires at your next interview?

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This article suggests variety of answers to the interview question ‘why do you want this job’. You may combine (some) to a brilliant answer for your next job interview.

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When it comes to job interviews, there are several questions that are not exactly work related, but are one of the major reasons why your job interview does not provide the results that are in your best interests. One such question is: “why should we hire you?” Basically, this question is one of the important questions during an interview.
For one, the interview question “give as reasons to hire you” or “what can you bring to our company” is something that differentiates the best candidates from the other, good candidates.

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Management interview questions are questions that focus on evoking a reaction from a candidate for a certain purpose – to provide a general image of the manager (i.e. the candidate).
How is that? Because the answers that the candidate provides present his way of thinking and demonstrate if he can disentangle himself from a given situation with a good lesson learned – to see how skilled and experienced he is”
Why would the employer want to ask these management interview questions? read further..

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This article provides sample of career aspirations for people who want to set up their career road-map.
People’s career aspirations can be categorized into limited number of types.

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There are many theories on every aspect of leadership. The reason for this amount of theories is that leadership is complex and variant.

Given the importance of effective leaders in any organization, the companies try to ask many questions for evaluating leadership characteristics of a candidate.
This article discusses interview questions on leadership and the ways to handle and answer these questions.
The artcile provides examples of leadership questions/answers and suggests 4 skills to evaluate:
leadership behavior, project and team leadership, decision-making & leadership, leadership & communication skills.

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P. G. Wodehouse once said: “I always advise people never to give advice”.
Well, this is not the case with management consultants – they give their advices to businesses and these advices better be good.
This article provides interview questions for management consulting.
These questions can be categorized into two groups: case interview questions and the “tell us about yourself” questions in an interview.

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There are several reasons an interview may not go well.
Many candidates who try to learn from their last interview mistakes, asking themselves – why did my last interview fail and how should I avoid this interview failure next time?
This article discusses the basic reasons people fail in interviews – the first impressions in interviews as well as the basic interview failures.

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In many interviews, employers combine several types of interview questions to evaluate competencies for the job.
This article categorizes 8 job interview types – it lists examples of job interviews that can help you better know what to expect.
The more information you gather before interviewing for a job, the better you be able to prepare effectively.

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There are two possible ways to carry out the structured interview:
1. A set of questions that are asked to each and every candidate in an one-on-one interview.
2. Filling out a questionnaire form by each and every candidate.
This article discusses the advantages/disadvantages of the structured interviews and provides questions and suggests on how to answer.

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In the stress interview the employer the emplyer uses various psychological techniques – the interviewer tries to asses the reaction of the candidate to stressful situations and to a negative atmosphere – they do all they can to keep the interviewer off-balance during the interview.

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If you’re looking at future careers and trying to decide which direction might be best for you, there are a few things you should keep in mind:
skills and interests, career stability and projected growth, and finally, the up and coming careers (careers of the future).

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In the panel interview (also called a group interview), the candidate generally meets with an interviewing panel – the supervisors, HR representative and some other team members.
This is the 2nd article of the panel interview and group interview series. You may also be interested in reading the article – group interview.

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A group interview, also called a panel interview, is an interview where a group of candidates are interviewed together at one time and as a team.
The group job interview can be more of a discussion or a conversation on some work related (or non-related to work) situation.
This is the 2nd article of the panel interviewing and group interview series. You may also be interested in reading the article – panel interview preparations.

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What ever you decide to do, you can always get inspiration from those who already made it.
And what can be better than reading some inspirational career quotes from these guys?
The post provides some of the best quotes on career and success.

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