Common interview questions

One of the most common interview questions is "What is your greatest accomplishment—the thing you are most proud of " By asking this question, the interviewer is trying to determine if you get satisfaction from achieving results. The interviewer may also want to see if you are proud of your accomplishments being proud of past results will translate into taking pride in your work with your prospective employer. 

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Questions asked by the interviewer should be carefully worded to be as neutral, unbiased, and nonleading as possible. A common core group of questions should be asked of all witnesses to provide a control sample and to cross-confirm key information. 

Never insult the interviewer. It s common for an interviewer to ask what you might perceive to be a stupid or irrelevant question. In some cases, the interviewer is simply testing to see how you will respond. Some questions are asked to test your morals or determine your level of honesty. Other types of questions are used simply to see how you will react in a tough situation. Try to avoid getting caught up in trick questions. Never tell an interviewer you think a question is stupid or irrelevant. 

It s impossible to predict or anticipate all the questions that an interviewer will ask. However, it helps to get a sense of the range of questions that might be asked. Exhibit 7-2 is a list that includes some questions that have already been addressed in these pages, along with quite a few more fhaf are worth considering. These are some of the most common questions asked in interviews. Even if these questions don t come up in your interview, it is a valuable exercise to think about how you might answer them. 

You will find information about how to handle surprise questions and tricky questions and how to get unstuck when an interview goes off course. And there s plenty of advice about answering tough questions (see Exhibit 7-1). There is even a detailed description of the top 25 mistakes candidates make and how to avoid them, as well as an additional list of fhe mosf commonly asked inferview questions (see Exhibit 7-2). 

Written questionnaires ask a common structured set of questions. They can be more efficient than interviews since they may be used to collect large amounts of information from diverse groups of respondents in the same time period. Moreover, it is possible to collect statistically valid data from large samples. Responses can be collected in person, by postal mail, by email, or onhne [9]. Examples of questionnaires used in CDIO programs include stakeholder surveys of the CDIO Syllabus, student ratings of faculty and courses, and exit surveys of graduating students. 

What is essential for successful project management I interviewed six very experienced project managers (Walesh 1997) and their responses to this question may be summarized as follows Communicate - communicate communicate, create a clear and complete mental image before beginning the work, minimize surprises, and maintain intensity. No silver bullets here—perhaps just common sense to be converted to common practice through self-discipline. 

The remainder of this chapter is structured as follows sechon 10.2 presents insights into the perceived dangers of urban cycling gained through interviews and polls conducted in 2012 and 2013 for two national research projects. Next, section 10.3 introduces the Austrian accident database and presents an overview of common accident types as well as the development of accident numbers for the years 2002-2011. A comparison of perceived dangers and recorded accident numbers is covered in section 10.4. Finally, section 10.5 presents conclusions and offers an outlook as well as open questions. 

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