What are the common job interview questions?

Answer 1

• Why have you selected a career in social work?
• What do you hope to accomplish as a social worker?
• Have you had the experience of working with people of a race or sexual orientation different from yours?
• Do you feel you can be objective in counseling a teen about abortion?

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Answer 2

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Why do you want to work here?

Why did you leave (want to leave) your last job?

What did you like about your last job/what didn't you like?

Describe your last boss? How would he/she describe you?

Do you have any future educational plans?
Interviewers typically use a number of standard questions, regardless of the job being interviewed for. These include the following:

Tell me about yourself

What are your strengths/weaknesses?

Why should we employ you?

Why do you want this job/ to work for this company?

What has been your greatest achievement?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Why are you leaving your current position?

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There are common questions used at interview and the reason for this is that aside from specific skills many jobs require the same competencies or behaviours. So prior to going to any interview the start point is to work out what the employer will want from someone applying for the job for which you are being interviewed.

So in the service industry employers will be looking for things like;

• communication skills

• a team player

• good interpersonal skills (customer service)

• energy

• motivation

Based on this requirements some common questions might be

• What makes you interested in this job?

• Can you give an example of where you had to work as part of a team to achieve a task?

• Can you give an example of where you have had to deal with a difficult customer?