Interview Question and Answer 52 – Why haven’t you had many interviews?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview Question and Answer 52 – Why haven’t you had many interviews? An article including an example answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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Interview Question 51 – Give an example of how a situation or project that had a positive outcome depended on the work of people from a wide range of backgrounds and ideas.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview Question 51 – Give an example of how a situation or project that had a positive outcome depended on the work of people – suggested answer.
Interview Question & Answer 50 – Give an example of a recent commercial deal that captured your attention
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Interview Question & Answer 49 – Give an example of a project or task that you felt compelled to complete on your own. What stopped you from delegating?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGive an example of a project or task that you felt compelled to complete on your own. What stopped you from delegating? Answer from Ten Percent Legal
Interview Question and Answer 41 – Do You Enjoy Travelling?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – do you enjoy travelling? A loaded question.
Interview Question – did you enjoy university?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview Question 36 Advice This again is a fairly simple question with a fairly straight forward answer to it. Remember at all times in interview you must stay positive. Failing to stay positive will result in firms unnecessarily considering you to have negative thoughts. Negative thoughts in interview indicates someone who may be overly critical…
Interview Question – Did your (university) course live up to expectations?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question 35 – Did the course live up to your expectations? Advice This relates specifically to somebody who has just left university and has very little work experience for the interviewer to discuss and explore. It will rarely be asked of anyone who has been out of college or university for a number of…
Interview Question 34 – Describe your strongest and weakest colleagues – how do you cope with such diverse personalities?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a difficult question because it is asking you to in some way criticise work colleagues and to perhaps idolise other work colleagues. This is a question potentially loaded towards the interviewer as opposed to the interviewee. At its rawest form you could end up giving an answer that indicates to the interview…
Interview Question 33 – Describe the project or idea that you were most satisfied to sell to your management.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is another question where you need to have a stock of answers ready to be tailored according to the particular question that is put to you. This one gives you the chance to demonstrate something of quality that pushes your case with the company in relation to the role you are applying for…
Interview Question – Describe a time when you had a number of conflicting demands on your time and how you dealt with this.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question is quite an easy one, but it is important not to fall into the trap of giving a general answer instead of a specific one. The question has asked you to describe a time, not a circumstance that you regularly find yourself in. Try to think of a specific occasion when you…
Interview Question & Answer – Describe a time when you failed to engage at the right level in your organisation. Why did you do that and how did you handle the situation?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a competency based interview question which again if you do not practice interview questions it is very unlikely you would be able to think of an answer on the spur of the moment. This needs to be one of the selection of scenarios you have stored in your head ready to use…
Interview Question & Answer 27 – Describe a situation where you had to change your approach half way through a project or task following new input into the project.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice Another particularly difficult competency based question which will almost inevitably result in you needing to have an example in your head before you go into the interview that you are able to use. Without having something pre-prepared it is almost impossible to think about something that quickly when asked these types of questions, which…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – are you satisfied with your academic achievements to date?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question is often asked where an interviewer has identified that you have a specific weak point on your CV, for example you have a low grade at A Level or have a Third Class Degree. The question is designed to pick you up on whether you respond negatively or positively to this question.…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a time where you had to drive a team through change
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question 14 – Describe a time where you had to drive a team through change. How did you achieve this? Advice A difficult question if you have not had a very long managerial career or this question is asked at a time in your career when you have not really had to deal with…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – demonstrate an understanding of organisational issues
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDemonstrate an understanding of underlying organisational issues. AdviceA very difficult question if you are not used to dealing with managerial speak! This is a question involving the STAR technique of firstly identifying the situation, secondly identifying a specific task, thirdly identifying your action as part of that task and finally confirming what the result was.…
Demonstrate how you vary your communication approach according to the audience that you are addressing?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question is probably more relevant to some professions and posts than others but in essence the answer has to be the same. You need to have at least 3 different examples of different types of audience you have had to speak to. For example a useful selection would be probably the workforce, the…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Can you work under pressure?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice A very common interview question and a fairly easy one to answer. There is only one answer of course which is yes as anyone who is unable to work under pressure is unlikely to get offered a job in any situation or profession. You can perhaps give specific examples of times when you have…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Can you give me evidence that you set yourself high personal standards?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a particular type of question where you need to have a number of examples of work you have undertaken in the past or present that can be tailored according to the question asked. You need to think of specific examples where potentially you have completed a task well. However because this was…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a project or situation where you had to use different leadership styles to reach your goal?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a question involving the STAR technique and another example of a question where you need to have specific projects and incidents stored in your brain ready to be adapted to answer these questions. The author of this article thinks that this approach to interviewing is not particularly good or effective. The technique…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a company you think is doing well or badly and explain why you think this is so?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice Preferably you will have been asked this question with just the well as opposed to the badly bit as it is a general rule in interviews that wherever possible you try to avoid any negative comment or thought about anything. It does make a difference to the perception of the interviewer if you focus…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Are you hoping for specialisation in a particular field. If so, why?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a loaded question and one you need to be very careful about answering. If you are applying for a junior post, for example a training contract with a solicitors’ firm, you really should not be giving any indication at this stage of an interest to specialise in. You simply do not know…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Are you considering any other positions at the moment?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question really depends on the circumstances of the interview. If you have been headhunted, are currently in employment and not particularly looking until you were approached then it would be perfectly acceptable to give a straightforward answer. If not, you need to consider your response very carefully. If you give an affirmative answer…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Are you Competitive?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This again is a question that almost requires you to say yes. If you say no it almost indicates that you really don’t care about your work or your activities. You are the type of person who is happy just to turn up to work each day and sit at a desk for 8…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – are you accepted into a team quickly?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question – Are you Accepted into a Team Quickly? Advice At first glance you may be forgiven for thinking that this is a yes or no answer as you are being asked a pretty closed question. This question gives you the opportunity to give a specific example and to get over a point to…
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Interview Question – What can you contribute to a team?
Reading Time: 2 minutesA cursed question to anyone who has not worked with business speak before. The reality is that the concept of teamwork is somewhat different in a law firm – the majority of decisions are made at senior level, and although more junior staff are informed that they need to be ‘team players’, very often the…