I was asked a question during an interview lately which I’ve never encountered before. “ between career happiness and money, how do you rank them on importance and why “

Anyone has similar questions like this before ?

What is the best answer for "How do you handle stress?"

I give myself a 5-10 minute break to go to restroom or pantry, to temporary clear my mind from work and try to view matters from different perspective.

Thanks. Any other suggestions or answer?

If you got the skill for job, no need worry for questions. even if u cant answer something, if they want your skill, they will hire u.

I personally felt "career, happiness & money" has chain reaction between all of them, it should not be monitored by importance but rather by rotation or cycle.

There are different question will arise by Interviewer depends upon field category, but there is some common question that possible.


1. Tell me about yourself?

2. Why you are applying for this position?

3.why do you want to work here?

4. What are your strength and weakness?

5. Why should we hire you?

6. Describe what you are doing in the current position?

8. Why do you want to leave your job?

9. Where do you see yourself in next 5 years

10.How much salary you expecting

"Tell me about yourself" is the most common.
Its basically to judge your ability to converse in a particular language, which usually is English. The trick is to prep before hand but make it sound natural and spontaneous. Don't make it sound like you're regurgitating your lines.

Hey guys... Not sure if this a right place to ask.

Anyways, I was in the mid of looking around to hop out form my existing environment (basically reached the learning threshold where I'm here for 3yrs), so I come across this one position in Jobstreet (MNC company) and I applied with the sake of trying.

And guess what, their get back to me like 2 days later and arranged for a phone interview last week and now they asking me to fly in this Sat for another interview (to SG btw). Not sure if they gonna spon my ticket, but the guy that interviewed me does ask me to let him know the airfare price.

In fact I'm quite surprise with their decision and in fact I got choke a lil during the 1st phone interview (was half way working and they called in like 20mins later than the said time).

So my question is, am I standing very big chance to get it? Or most MNC will do for the those candidates that they shortlisted?

Mine that, although I've work for 11yrs, but my current company is my second job.

do you have punching bag?

Guys have anyone ever been ask this kind of question before? "Do you have any problem working with Muslims"? I got ask this question before when applying for a hotel job, I didn't get that job in the end. But thinking about it now I wonder was the guy a racist for asking me that kind of question???

Perhaps they have a lot of Muslim client, hence the questions.

I think this is no brainer, you should just said yes, regardless of your personal opinion.

Nope it was a hotel job which 90% of the customers are whites and i have no problem with working with any race.

Woww, this is very helpful. Thank you.

Typically stress tends to happen when you have multiple responsibilities to juggle or you're working against a tight deadline or with very limited resources.

I'd say something along the lines of:

In either situation where the going gets tough, I make a list of tasks that need to be done, classify them into the 4 quadrants (Important & Urgent / Important but not urgent / Urgent but not important / Not urgent nor important), and start with the important and urgent ones.

Having a list helps me stay focused throughout all 8 hours of my workday, keep track of progress, and is excellent motivation for getting a sense of progress.

Doing so also forces me to break a big project or job down into smaller chunks that I can tackle while keeping a razor-sharp focus on what really matters (Important & urgent).

If the stress is people-related, I'd say talk things out, seek alignment, keep an open mind when having discussions (stop hiding behind your PC), look for ways to find common ground or negotiate. Focus on the facts and the issues at hand, rather than the people involved.

Sounds like the sanest way to survive work and keep some kind of work life balance. Why not do your best work in 8 hours vs. slogging away without direction for 10 hours to look hardworking right?

Great answers! Effective & balance. Thank you for sharing

Agree! Typically plan on spending at most 1-2 minutes on the self-introduction and you definitely want to include the following:

[Academic background] + [Summary of work experience] + [Current job and your reason/s for leaving] + [quick list of expertise/niche skills] + [professional interests or qualifications].

All to often as a recruiter I see candidates tell me where they're from, their family, age, blah and it makes me cringe. You only get an hour to impress your interviewers, so make sure every word you say counts and adds to why they should offer you the job.

how to answer this: "What can you bring to the company?" with no experience

If a person is fired from a previous job (let's just say inability to get along with a co worker) and interviewer asks why did you last your last job?
How to answer?

This post has been edited by BLKH3: May 16 2020, 07:13 PM

Give a generic answer and hope that they do not call your previous employer to check.