What is your strength and weakness?
My answer : My strength is that I am willing to learn and work and I can go far if you give me this oppurtunity. My weakness is my due to my lack of experience since I am a freshie but I will not hesitate to learn from others. (do not brag too much. And try to cover when telling about your weakness)

What do you know about this company?
Very common question. So read about the company's latest news and developement before going to the interview.

So, here's 2 questions I was always ask when going to interviews. Some interviewer might get too creative and ask weird questions...so be prepare. LOL

Covering the weakness by telling something good instead to back up. I did not say lie or hide about the weakness. Everybody has their weakness and interviewer ask question like this to see if we're brave enough to admit.
Backing up weaknesses like this way...
Examples:
*I'm not too keen with computer's application but I'm thinking of taking part time courses to improve.
*Although I don't have much experience in this field but I think it's really interesting and I am willing to learn.
*Since I'm a fresh graduate, lack of experience is my weakness but I won't hesitate to ask and learn from others.

BTW, to be over-honest is not really necessary in interviews...I don't think by telling them something like 'I tend to be always late for work' or 'I have really hot temper' will earn you any honesty points.

This post has been edited by Kii: May 22 2005, 03:02 PM

My answer will be : What I know is very basic computer knowledge and if that's not efficient enough to do my work, and if my work requires me to know more, yes, I will do something about it and take up a course to improve.


My answer will be : By joining this company is the best way to indulge more in this field. It's only up to you whether to give me this opportunity to learn or not.


My answer will be : Not everyone has the same opportunity to access their own field of interest. But I've been exposed to other area such as plastic industry and quality management.

Yes, Americanized or not we should all be prepare to be criticized. I'd gone through a 3 hours interview aka debating session. Torturing...really torturing.

Yes. Very true. We might not realize but the interviewer will know and we'll look really stupid and desperate trying to answer something we have no idea at.
There was one time when the interviewer asked me 'Do you know anything about our line assembly process?'. And I was like.... and thought that I was going to flunk this interview because this seem like such an important question. I could not say anything but 'I do not know'.
But the interviewer was kind enough to explain to me step by step their assembly process. Whoa...it's really complicated to me and there's no way I could know the answer unless I work at the line. And so now the interviewer is my boss