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How To Handle Tricky Interview Question - After 5 Years, Where Do You Want To See You In Your Career

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:00:00 +0000

First of all apologies from my side due to my lengthy absence. I had been busy on some other projects that's why I couldn't write the post, but now I am back with another interview question.

For career development you should plan your career in terms of 5 years and 10 years, but why an interviewer wants to know about your career planning? What benefits he might gain by knowing your career plan? If you have been following our 16 toughest interview series, then you should know that each and every interview question lets the interviewer judge you on the hiring scale like wise, this question is another opportunity for interviewer to check the element of persistent in yourself. He also wants to know that how much this job is important for you and where it is placed in your career plan. Your answer should reflect your enthusiasm for the job with a proof that you are persistent in your career. Now the question is how can you show it? Well, I have some tips for you. Let's move to them.

How To Handle Tricky Interview Questions - Do You have Any Weak Points In Your Education Or Experience?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:00:00 +0000

A straightforward question about your weakness always makes you nervous and you start answering with aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, ummmmmmmmmm, actually etc etc but do you want to face this interview question confidently? You have been going through the interview questions series and now you are know that no question on the earth is difficult to answer. All you need to be smart and intelligent to grab the opportunity and turn the interview session in your favor. Likewise you just need to do some homework to grab the bull by horn.

How To Handle Tricky Interview Questions - How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:00:00 +0000

You do not get stressed or look puzzled when interviewer asked about your leisure activities and this interview question seems very simple to you. It is indeed a simple question and sometimes it is only asked to make candidate relaxed and calm but smart candidates always earn benefit from each opportunity. Are you smart? Can you use this question to crack the interview? No? do no worry we are here to teach you cracking the interview by the help of this simple interview question but before learning it, we recommend you to go through the complete series of 16 toughest interview question.

Now come to the point. Recruiters always hire the candidate who proves him/herself worthy and different. Other interview questions give you opportunity to prove yourself as WORTHY but this question gives you the chance of proving your self as different. How? Read the following guidelines to get the answer.

How To Handle Tricky Interview Question - What You Didn't Like About Your Previous Job

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:00:00 +0000

An ex-employee always enjoy commenting negatively about his or her former employer but when, in interview you are asked to comment about your ex-employer or former job, you may do not know how to react or how should you deal with it. Whether a cautious behavior is recommended in this situation or you should be hundred percent negatively honest on it.

If you always get confused on this interview question and cannot decide on correct answer then don't worry this post will solve your problem by teaching you the technique of answering it. When you will come to end of this post, you will have already learnt to handle this interview question but before reading this post, We strongly recommend you to read previous posts of the series HOW TO HANDLE 16 TOUGHEST INTERVIEW QUESTIONS so you can crack every interview with all possible questions.

Tricky Interview Question - What Are Your Weaknesses?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:00:00 +0000

No body in the world is without weakness but admitting it in front of others is rather difficult and it becomes more difficult when you have to point out your own weaknesses in interview.

You always search for the safe way of answering this interview question but sometimes you do not know what actually is a SAFE way. A safe way always shield you from the negative impact and disguise your weakness as general weakness which do not worth to be considered. Let us find this safe way together but hold on for a minute, have you learnt handling all six tricky interview questions which we discussed in previous posts? If no then I recommend you to start reading from HOW TO ANSWER 16 TOUGHEST INTERVIEW QUESTIONS.

How To Answer Tricky Interview Questions - What Are Your Strengths?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:00:00 +0000

You surely know about the positive aspects of your personality and you are proud of them but sometimes it is difficult to explain your strengths in front of someone specially when it gets to interviewer.

When you are asked in interview about your strengths then your mind start analyzing yourself and wondering what is most impressive strengths which you should list down during the interview to win the job but have you ever think what strengths are required for the recruiter? have you ever tried to read the recruiter mind to reply exact the same answer which recruiter want to hear?

We have been discussing tricky interview questions and we have covered questions like:

But for me today's question is really interesting because it seems so naive but not in actual. Interviewee generally takes this questions as a chance of making impression and start telling his/her strengths without knowing the fact that a personality trait which you call strength may be a weakness for recruiter and your so-called strength is not compatible for the position for which you are being interviewed. So how you should deal this question?

How To Answer Interview Question - Can We Offer You A Career Path?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Your each job determines your next career move that is why I always suggest my clients that choose a job which will be beneficial for your career in long term. Some jobs do look good, having attractive compensation package but it may stuck you at your career path so, always avoid career mistakes and choose a job which have career development potential

Here the questions is, how can you analyze the future of any job? but in actual job analysis is not so difficult, You do this analysis by different means.

From job advertisement
By gathering information about company
During interview.

For best analysis you should use all three means but as far as my recommendation is, interview is the best source of judging any job's future.

Most of people think only an interviewer can ask question during interview however it is wrong concept. An interview is a process of exchanging information and both interviewee and interviewer have rights to ask. You should ask some question in order to better know about the designation (for which you are being interviewed), about company, its policies etc.

With your RIGHT of asking questions, some of interviewer questions also provides you opportunity to better know about the company and the job, for which you are called and from those questions, one question from them is:

Can We Offer You A Career Path?

How? Let me show you but before showing this. I would like to have quick review of interview questions which we have already learnt to handle

Let us come to handle the todays interview question.

How To Answer Interview Questions - If We Hire You, What Changes Will You Make?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Today I am very excited to discuss the 4th question of interview series because it is the question which let candidate to play with interviewer but unfortunately candidates do not know how to play with interviewer because this interview question seems too difficult and tricky and candidate loses his/her attention and gets blank when it is asked That is why I have come up with the easiest way to handle this question but before discussing anything about it, have a look to those three questions, which we have already learnt to handle.

Our next interview question is:

If We Hire You, What Changes Will You Make?

You must be surprised by knowing, this question lets candidate to play with interviewer and you may be thinking that I have gone insane but believe me, I am too damn serious and sane. Let me show you, how can you play with interviewer by answering this question, in three simple steps

Why Should We Hire You - How The Answer This Trickiest Interview Question

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:00:00 +0000

We are done with two interview questions:

1. What was the toughest decision you ever have made?

2. Why Do You Want To Work With Us

Now its time to learn handling the most important and trickiest question of interview that is

Why Should We Hire you?

As I said in previous post, each interview question hides the intention of interviewer to better know the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate. This question also let recruiter know, how a candidate see himself and how much he is convinced that he is essential for the company.

This question also gives the opportunity to candidate to convince the recruiters that he is the BEST CHOICE for the job and has QUALIFICATION which they are searching for. In short, this question requires convincing power .

Now the question is, how should we answer this valuable question efficiently? This post will let you learn answering this question but do remember one thing, to answer this question, you have to prepare yourself before going to interview.

How To Answer Tricky Interview Question-Why Do You Want To Work With Us.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:00:00 +0000

So, you have learnt to tackle the first tricky interview question that was "What was the toughest decision you ever have made?" Now we are ready to learn handling the next tough interview question which is Why Do You Want To Work With Us?

The answer of this question is purely depends on your interview homework. It let recruiters know that how much you know about the organization and how perfectly you read the job advertisement. Surprised? Yeah you should be. Actually every question of an interview disguise the intentions of interviewer to know something. The intentions behind of this interview question is get to know that how much candidate know about the organization. The more a candidate knows the more he is eager to work with them and ultimately the more he will be productive employee for them.

As earlier I said that the answer of this question is based on our interview homework or interview preparation. So let us start doing our homework

How To Answer 16 Toughest Interview Questions.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:00:00 +0000

For most of the folks, interview is the most difficult step at the career ladder because it brings not only excitement but also makes us nervous. Most of people get butterflies in stomach whenever they think about the interview, interviewer and all the possible questions which can be asked during the interview. Actually delivering a good interview is not as difficult as it seems. If you understand the interview process, you know the "MUST HAVES FOR INTERVIEW" and you are prepared for all the possible interview questions then no body can stop you to have best interview. we already have discussed about interviews must haves and interview process, today we are going to the most vital part of interview session that is questions and answers part.

Generally you are asked some simple questions at the starting like your name, nationality, interests and gradually recruiters come to more difficult and tricky questions. I have concluded 16 most tricky questions, which are asked frequently in the question and I will teach you how to answer those 16 questions in 16 different posts. So, stay connected with us and make every interview a success.

The first question of this series is:

What was the toughest decision you ever have made?

Common Career Mistakes And How To Avoid Them

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Taking career decision to develop your career is not always easy. Sometimes you get confused to make choice among different career options because you do not know which option will serve you best and which may led you to wrong career path.

There can be lots of way to choose right career decisions like asking career advise from career expert or get career counselling or search internet for getting any career help.

Being a career adviser I always recommend people to take career decisions after keeping all pros and cons in mind. Do not take any step in hurry. Do not be short sighted and always grab the opportunity that will be beneficial for you in long run. Some offers and opportunities do seem attractive at a time but it may leave you at dead end in the future.

I have prepared this post through my professional experience of career advising. It is comprised of the career mistakes which people normally do but they have no idea about it.

Is Your Resume Not Getting Interview Call? Fix Your Resume Mistakes

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:00:00 +0000

I have been providing resume analyzing and resume creating facility to my customer for a while. I receive hundreds of resume daily for analyzing and believe me most of them are poor. Yeah I know I am sounding harsh and rude but it is fact. Actually the problem is, most of people think resume writing as easy as writing an extempore essay in exams while creating a resume is rather a difficult task and needs some creative, writing and analyzing skills.

The problem is people think of hiring professional resume writer as a waste of money and time. They do not know, paying to professional resume writer is investing in your career because resume is first step of successful career

Providing career guidance is my job and if some people are not convinced of hiring professional resume writer then I come up with some common mistakes of resume which I commonly find in resume and most of people are not aware of these mistakes.

How To Develop Productive Work Force

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Productive work force is asset for any company. The main responsibility of HR department of any company is to seek, retain, prepare, engage, grow, train and polish effective work force. A work force which can meet challenges and increases the business productivity.

Keeping productive work force is not an easy task because skills sets, needs, demands and grievances of every person varies so making every employee engaged and happy so that he/she will be productive, is not possible but do you know by implementing some small tricks you can enhance your employees productivity up to 30%. Actually, it is true that you cannot make everyone happy at every time but you can make maximum people happy for the longer time, you just need to be smart and intelligent. Let us learn how to develop effective and productive work force by implementing small techniques.

Build Your Resume In 10 Minutes

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Creating job-winning is not an easy task. Every job seeker needs eye-catching resume but not every job seeker can create job-winning resume. Why? Because resume writing is an art. You need strong sentences, powerful verbs and understanding of recruiters mind.

If you have been searching for job, posting your resume at different job portals but you are not getting any interview call then it is time to review your resume. Carefully analyze that does your resume have any attraction for recruiters? or your resume is cluttered with job descriptions?

As above we said that resume writing is not an easy task but thanks to technology which made it easier for us ans there are plenty of online resume builders which guarantee AWESOME resume. Today we are going to discuss one of the online resume builder which wants only 10 minutes of yours and let you build your professional-looking resume

What is that Miracle? It is a website called Simple Resume. Now let us look to benefits of using Simple Resume.

Common Fresher Problems And Solutions Of Them

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Getting firsts job is exciting, thrilling and joy full but sometimes it becomes nightmare due to your inexperience and lack of knowledge of corporate world. Sometimes the problems are not too big but you get stressed because you do not know how to handle the situation.

Fresher are sometimes nervous, tense and confused and seniors take benefit of it. They use fresher for their own benefits and sometimes make them scapegoat for them and due to unawareness of corporate politics they fall in the trap which sometimes seriously hurt their career.

After the keen observation we have concluded some top problems which fresher faces at the starting of their career. Do not worry we are not going to only indicate the problem but we also come up with solution of each problem.

Kill Your Professional Image By Using Linkedin Wrongly

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Linkedin is the popular professional network for maintaining and building contact. It facilitates both employee and employer. If you are employer, you can easily search for right candidate through linkedin by screening different profiles and if you are looking for a job then you have various ways to find out one. You can update your status that you are looking for job and you can get updates from different organization. You can follow your favorite organization for getting job updates or you can join groups to seek new job.

No doubt linkedin is a great professional network but do you know? many people are sabotaging their professional image through linkedin and still they have no idea what they are doing and how they are killing their career.

We have compiled a list of dangerous job mistakes, which people normally do without knowing the fact that how they are playing with their careers.

How To Explain Employment Gap In Your Resume

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Job searching is such a pain in this depressed economy and it becomes more severe when you have gap in employment. Sometimes this employment gap makes you embarrassed, sometimes worried and sometimes stressed.

You always feel your resume worth less when you have employment gap but filling this gap is not difficult. You can easily show it as your skill rather then your weakness. All you need to be pro active and intelligent.

Let us move to techniques of managing employment gap in resume.

Is Your Resume Cluttered With Job Description?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:00:00 +0000

What can be the worst part in any resume? It is presenting long long job descriptions with heading of Experience. Shocked? Do not believe me? But it is fact. About 80% of people write down their job descriptions in their resumes with the heading of experience. Why do people do this? Because they perceive their experience is what they daily do and feel proud to present it.
Actually this perception is totally wrong. You indeed get experience by doing work as per your job description but recruiters are not looking forward for your daily routine at work. Instead they want to know how you do your work and how do you achieve your goals but most of job seekers fail to present this

Now the question is, How should we write or get to write our experience in our resume. Well we have come with some simple and easy solutions for writing our experience in effective manner

Benefits Of Thank-You Note After Interview

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Sending a thank-you note after interview is not so common. In fact most of us take it as time wasting or useless activity but believe me, a thank you letter can do wonder for you. It may persuade recruiters to hire you. It can make a difference between you and your competitors. You can take many advantages from your thank-you note.How? let us show you.

How To Deal With Threatening Boss

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:00:00 +0000

It is 8:00 A.M and Jane has to go for work but the thought of going to office making her sick. because of her boss. She has no mental compatibility with her boss and has worst relations with the him. Her boss keeps threatening to fire her or to charge false allegations. Work environment has become hell to her and she is getting depressed day by day. She has no idea how to come out from the situation and turn situation in her favor.

Well if you are in similar situation then we can help you. Sit back, relax and read step-by-step career solution for this problem.

How To Deal With Abuse Of Internet At Work

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:30:00 +0000

Internet is indispensable for any office but sometimes it becomes biggest problem for managers due to its abuse by employees. It is seen many times that employees waste their time on playing games, updating their status on facebook or tweeting their views on twitter which ultimately brings work delay or fall in productivity.

This is really a worrisome situation for all managers that's why we have come with some tips to restrict their employees' internet use at work.

Make Your Employee Relation Better - Use Your Organization Internal Network

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:30:00 +0000

Building good employee relation is one of the biggest job of HR department of any organization. it is not only the biggest job but also a toughest job on earth because human demands, preferences and priorities vary from person to person and making everyone happy at a time is impossible that is why HR people always struggle to keep balance between employee and employer.

Another hard reality is, HR people mostly fail to keep balance between employee and employer because they are employees themselves and compel to take orders from employer. Sometimes this situation lead to ruining employee relations.

There are various tool which can be used to build up good employee relation and one of them organization internal network. Your organization internal network can help you to strengthen employee relations in various manner. Let us have look on how your internal network can do the magic.

Plan Your Own Job Promotion

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Do you know you can easily plan your own promotion? Promotion is an important milestone in a way of your career development and being a CAREER LION, we believe, our career advancement is in our hand.
Moving up to next step on the stairs of your career success is obviously depends on promoting to higher level but it is always a hardest task in your job plan but to accomplish this task you have to drive your career vehicle efficiently and wisely. Getting promotion is not only about hard work, Punctuality and accomplished projects. You have to be more smart and efficient and have ability to use right tools at right time.

5 Signs which Show Your Employee Is Not Motivated For Job

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Your employee motivation towards job is no less than asset for you. You should always try to keep your employees motivated for the job because employee motivation is an integral part of effective workforce. Motivated employees are always eager to explore and experiment new ways of doing their job which ultimately brings prosperity and growth for a business.

Now you are wondering how can you peer in someone's brain and heart to measure his motivation level. Actually, emotions and feelings are not measured. They are rather guessed through attitude, behavior and body language. For your ease we are collecting some signs which definitely indicate demotivating employee.