Hah, same answer for the same question.

There is pros and cons to your question. When I was doing HR, I hate candidates to ask questions (especially the ones you mentioned above) before the interview. If they want to ask so much, I might as well interview them over the phone. Once I shortlist someone, they had impressed me from what is in their resume. What remain if for me to access their attitude in which looking at their body language alone when they resposnse to the question "myself" will suffice. I usually hang up on them after the second question.

Why are you here? You need to know about the company. You may start a thread to get the info. List out the plus point about the company as reasons you want to join them.

Myself. It is usually the first question. They are only loking at your presentaton skills. Present with confidence 4-6 sentences should suffice.

Why hire you? List down all your strength and write a 100 word essay. Present that essay when asked.

Everyone worked under pressure. Pressure does not change if you are in a different industry. In most cases it is working to meet tight deadlines. I am sure you have similar experience in school.

You be surprise they ask you the same thing. A CEO is not a personnel expert. They think of ways to increase business and efficiency. They are least bother with questionares for interviewees. Be prepared for the typical questions.

They just wanted to assess your character. They commonly ask "tell me about yourself" to get the ball rolling. Then they will take the que form there. If they dont find it then they likely as for your opinion about the job function. My reminder is that they want to assess your character so it is important to project confidence. Dont get carried away with it and be a "know it all" type. I am sure you hate those characters too.

Technical questions are not a problem if you know your stuff. If you don not know the material be honest. If you talk like a "tin kosong" you will lose a lot of marks. The more you talk, the more they will laugh, inside their hearts, at your stupidity. So if you dont know your stuff, then brush yourself up for future.

Daccorn,
That is a good way to cover, "Tell me about yourself".

I do not get the passaage that I put in bold below.

How could your do it at the end when you are not the person asking the question? Did you mean you can refer to it again at the end?

This post has been edited by faceless: Nov 16 2010, 10:00 AM

It is more like a sucidal question. No matter how you answer it, you will expose flaws.

Well, I ask that question to look for weakness. I had yet to hear a flawless reply.

I do not see wat is so "Unkool" about asking salary and fringe benefit.

Aska,
Yes you can but be prepares to answer "what is the possibility of the renewing your contract?"

It is very clear cut you goofed up. You are not even sharing the reason with people here in the forum to better advised you.

To see if you fit the bill. If you do then they will attempt to negotiate with you.

The question is specific to this thread. It had been asked over and over again in this thread. You can even find some answers in the first page itself. I have answer this question here several times too.

Do some homework on the company and pick up points from there. If company is public listed it is much easier. Go get their annual report. Look at the chairman statement and get points from there. If not public listed ask friends or as most people do here. Open a "Anyone heard of XYZ Company" thread.

This post has been edited by faceless: Mar 31 2011, 09:17 AM

I have no idea what you are talking about.
Is there any need for you to tell me you have read this thread aver and over again and subsequently say it is okay? What is okay?


Are you saying some music company interview you ages ago with a similar question?

Okay, you quoted the wrong post.
Nope, they dont do that. They just want to see if you fit the bill first. Then only negotiate with you. It is common.

Practise in front of a mirror.

Same as the first interview. Since you are doing HR, you should know the reason for the questions in the first interview. Do you not think most of it will be repeated? On technical type question, expected question on procedure to conduct domestic inquiry.

For a person in HR you do not impress me with your answer.

1) Tell me about yourself - design to gauge how well a candidate present himself.

2) Career goal - gain information on candidate's aspiration.

3) Why work here - did candidate take initiative to find out more about us or just any job will do.

As a Group HR, I will ask the same things to see for myself if you as good as my Manager had said.

Perhaps you have never done an interview but it does not matter. What matters is you have learned from here. Impressing me is not important. Just do a good job with the Group HR.

Time to put theory to practise. All you need is to get an interview (have you read up on how to ensure that your resume can get you an interview). If you know how to sell your self having no experience is a minor obstacle.

Then you have not read enough. Read up on selling your self.

You can always post your resume here for forumers to comment.