Why Were You Fired?


Answering this question in a positive way seems impossible for many applicants. Here are some tips to get you through this difficult question:

1. My skills were not well matched to the needs of my previous employer but I believe they would be an asset to your organization. In addition to sales and marketing, would skills in telemarketing be useful here?

2. Some personal problems arose which unfortunately interfered with my work. Those problems no longer exist and the job was a real learning experience for which I think I’m wiser. I am now focused on and excited to find an opportunity to prove and improve my abilities.

Questions on interview


Here is some more most common questions:

1. Tell us about yourself

2. What is your view on life: what difficulties you have and how your overcome them.

3. What you like in applying possition?

4. Why you think this job is right for you and what is your pluses in comparission to other candidates?

5. What is your positive and strong moments?

6. What is your weak points.

7. Why did you quit your previous job.

8. Why did you deside to change your job?

9. What is your other job offers?

10. How succesful were your interviews in other places?

11. Will this job affect your personal life?(different hours, travel, etc.)

12. How do you see yourself in five ten years?

13. What changes would you do in your new place?

14. Who can tell us your previous job achivements?

15. What pay you want?

16. Do you have any professional connections and how you can use them on your new place?

17. How do you improve your personal experience?

18. What do you like to do in your free time?

19. When you can start?

20. What questions do you have?

14 questions


Fourteen most common job interview questions:

1. Why you quit your last job.
2. How much do you know about our company?
3. What was your previous work place?
4. What is your strong points?
5. Why do you want to work in our company?
6. What you can invest in our company future?
7. Do you think you can work in team?
8. What was the biggest problem in your job history and how you resolved it?
9. Here the problem how you resolve it?
10. What you liked the most in your previous work?
11. How do you like progress in your career?
12. Why do you think you not overqualified for us?
13. What pay you expect?
14. When you can start?

Questions about interview? Part 2 of 2

Question 5. What are your strong qualities?

Mistake – a modest answer: ” Let the associates judge… “.

It is better to name with readiness those qualities you have and which are appreciated at this job in the given post. Professionalism, activity, decency, goodwill to people, truthfulness and fidelity are always and everywhere appreciated.

Question 6. What you lack?

Mistake - a fair recognition of lacks (the work is not familiar to me, I do not have special education, lazy, hot-tempered etc.).

You should name 2-3 drawback with readiness, skillfully presenting them as advantages, for example: ” I always speak the truth in eyes… I am always called worker-holik etc.

Question 7. Why have you left the previous job?

Mistake - the recognition of the conflict with the head or employees, criticism of the previous place of work and people, a recognition of an inefficiency of the work.

It is necessary to express your opinion about the previous place of work, heads and employees positively, having named thus such worthy reasons as aspiration to most fully realize the opportunities, to get a more difficult work and the appropriate high salary.

Question 8. Why have you decided to change a place of work?

This question is set to those who work at the moment of interview. The answer should be similar to the answer to the previous question.

Question 9. Have you ever received any other job offers?

Mistake - the recognition, that your nominee has not interested anybody .

It is necessary to emphasize, that the given post in the organization has interested first of all, that is why you have started with it. The best situation when you simultaneously and successfully negotiate with a contestant firm that provokes the desire to entice you.

Question 10. How successfully have you passed interviews in other places?

Mistake - the statement of the amount and the reasons unsuccessfully passed interviews. It is better to hold back it.

It is necessary to name places of work and a post which is offered. Necessarily name a contestant firm where you willingly take it if it is so.

Question 11. To whom is it possible to address for a response about your previous work?

Mistake - concealment of addresses and phones of the previous places of work.

It is necessary not only to give phones of former heads and employees with whom you have agreed about it beforehand but also to show as many letters of recommendation from them as possible.

Question 15. What salary do you expect?

Mistake - to underestimate or too to overestimate itself.

It is necessary to find out borders of disorder of payment in the given post and to name a little higher salary, than