Types of Job Interview Questions, by Alison Doyle (from The Balance Careers)

By ALISON DOYLE (Updated May 25, 2018) From The Balance Careers 

When you go on a job interview there are a variety of different types of interview questions you'll be asked. You'll be asked about your employment history, your ability to work on a team, your leadership skills, your motivation, as well as other interview questions related to your skills and abilities.

Your responses need to be targeted for the job you are interviewing for. Your responses should show the employer why you're a qualified candidate and why you are a fit for the job and the company.

Take the time to prepare for a job interview, in advance, by reviewing the different types of interview questions you'll be asked, as well as by taking a look at sample answers for each type of question.

01 Interview Questions About Your Abilities

During a job interview, you'll be asked questions about your abilities. The key to successfully responding is to focus on your abilities as they relate to the qualifications required for the job. Review common interview questions about your abilities and sample answers.

02 Interview Questions About Leaving Your Job

When you're interviewing, you will be asked why you left or are going to leave your job. Here are interview questions, along with sample answers, related to leaving your job, getting fired, and what you have been doing if you're not currently employed.

WEEKLY PICKS - 4

This post offers you a selection of recommended free online exercises, games, videos and resources so that you can improve your English language skills while having fun! ENJOY!

📜 READING PICKS – Articles, blog posts, quizzes and more:

Article from Mind Tools: 10 Common Time Management Mistakes
Avoiding Common Pitfalls - How well do you manage your time? If you're like many people, your answer may not be completely positive! Perhaps you feel overloaded, and you often have to work late to hit your deadlines. Or maybe your days seem to go from one crisis to another, and this is stressful and demoralizing. (Continue reading)

❓ QUIZ from Mind Tools ⇒ How Good Is Your Time Management?
Discover Time Management Tools That can Help you Excel

Article from BBC CULTURE: The writers who defied Soviet censors 

Underground publishers in the USSR broke rules in ingenious ways – such as hiding books in fake binding and making records on X-ray film, writes Benjamin Ramm.

In anticipation of the poet’s arrest, his creations were concealed by inventive means – sewn into the insides of cushions and shoes, or hidden in mattresses and saucepans. The police confiscated most of his papers, but others were smuggled out, or hidden surreptitiously in obscure locations. The most important poems were inscribed where even the wiliest investigator could not find them – in the memory of a devoted reader, who would pass them on.  (Continue reading)

🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:

LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS

• Why Do We Blush? (1:46 minutes)
• Why Do We Get Nervous? (2:28 minutes)
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• The Science of Heartbreak (2:48 minutes)
• Introverts vs. Extroverts (4:17 minutes)
• Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind Pt. 1 (2:08 minutes)

5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:

• Vocabulary - LIVE, LIFE, ALIVE, LIVING (7:53 minutes)
• Learn Vocabulary - look, look like, look alike, look as if... (6:43 minutes)
• English Grammar - comparing with LIKE & AS (9 minutes)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ► Animated Book Summary (5:35 minutes)
• ALL or WHOLE? (9:23 minutes.)

A LITTLE LONGER BUT WORTH IT!

• How to increase your vocabulary (It only takes 13:29 minutes!)

💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:

• Verb + Adverb Games (1) ⇒ Which adverb best goes with which verb? (When you finish, click on “Next Game” and get a full new set of pairs! There are 10 games.)
• Verb + Adverb Games (2) ⇒ Which adverb best goes with which verb? (When you finish, click on “Next Game” and get a full new set of pairs! There are 10 games.)
• Sustainable development 
• Bed / Home / Work / Town Exercise 1
• Feelings and Emotions

💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:

• Comparative and Superlative Quiz with Adverbs
• Question tags – Exercise 3
• Questions in Passive – Word order – Click Exercise 1 – MIX
• Questions in Passive – Word order – Click Exercise 2 – MIX
• Prepositions Exercise 7
• Prepositions Exercise 8
• If or Unless
• Conditional sentences type 2 exercise
• Conditional sentences type 3 exercise
• A Little / A Few Exercise 1
• Because or because of
• Although, even though, in spite of...
• Mixed Past Tenses Games 1-10 – Practise talking about time with past tense forms. These games practise 4 past tense forms from Past Simple to Past Perfect Continuous.

MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!

The Leadership Motivation Assessment (from Mind Tools)

❓ QUIZ ⇒ The Leadership Motivation Assessment / Discover How Motivated You Are to Lead

The first and most basic prerequisite for leadership is the desire to lead.

After all, it takes hard work to become an effective leader and, if you are not prepared to put this work in or if, deep down, you're not sure whether you really want to lead, you'll struggle to convince people that you are worth following.

Leaders create the vision and set the direction for their organizations. But it is their ability to motivate and inspire people that allows them to deliver that vision.

So, how much do you want to lead? This quiz will help you find out.

💡 You may also be interested in the quizzes below: 

• How Emotionally Intelligent Are You?
• How Good Is Your Feedback?
• How Approachable Are You? (from Mind Tools)
• The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale (from Mind Tools)
• HOW SELF-CONFIDENT ARE YOU? (from Mind Tools)
• Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker? (From Mind Tools) 
• FREE PERSONALITY TEST: Which personality type are you?
• How Good Are Your Communication Skills? (from Mind Tools)

BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO, by Daniel Shogren

By Daniel Shogren, CPA, SPHR

I heard somebody the other day tell a group of his peers that he’s serving fewer clients these days and working far less than he used to. But, he says, he’s much happier than he used to be, and he’s making much more money.

His secret: he’s telling some of his long-standing clients that he cannot serve them anymore, and he’s sending them to somebody else – usually his competition. Mind you he’s not ridding himself of his best clients. He’s shedding those clients that don’t pay on time, that quibble about his fees, that drive his staff nuts with their nit picking, who have unrealistic expectations, or who are downright abusive and expect to get away with it because they are paying for the right to do so. Still, it’s tough to tell someone who pays, and who keeps coming back to pay again and again, that it’s time to hit the road.

He calls it ‘tough love’. Whatever you call it, it is a tough prescription for many to follow.