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 46 – Do you prefer to work in a small, medium or large company?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is a very loaded question and one that has been asked in interviews up and down the country with the wrong answer given on numerous occasions. During a range of practice interviews I have regularly asked this question and been amazed at the response given. Interviewees often think it is the chance to…
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 38 – Did you increase sales or profits in your last job?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a difficult question if you have not worked in a senior managerial post or sales and profits did not increase in your last job. This is also difficult if you are applying at a time of recession rather than at a time of boom because sales and profits do not necessarily increase…
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…
Inappropriate interview question – are you the type of person to cry if someone shouts at you?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe do see some gems of interview questions coming our way, and this one is our favourite at the moment. Are you the type of person to cry if someone shouts at you? What a question, and perhaps the person asking it was really testing the interviewee to see how they would respond. Would the…
Interview Question and Answer – describe a time that you failed to sell an idea that you knew was the right one.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is a negative question and one that wherever possible should be avoided. It does not matter how you answer the question, the answer you give will have to result in you providing the interviewer with evidence of a negative point. Wit this in mind it is worth trying to avoid answering the question…
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 & Answers – Describe a situation where you worked as part of a team.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a completely open question and one that everyone attending an interview should have a stock answer ready to use. Team questions are almost always best answered using a work environment and anyone who has worked in any capacity is able to give a situation or example. If you have not yet worked…
Interview Question & Answer 28 – Describe a situation where you are asked to do something you had never attempted previously.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a competency based interview question and should be one that you are able to put forward a positive strength and experience that relate specifically to the post you are applying for. so for example if one of the requirements of the post you are going for is that you have experience handling…
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 – describe a situation in which you were a member of a team – what did you do to positively contribute to it?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is the classic competency based interview question that gets asked time and time again in some form or another. It does not matter who you are and what your circumstances, there must have always been a time when you were a member of a team and you are able to give this information…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a situation in which you influenced or motivated people.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is another relatively easy question because if you have prepared your approach to interview effectively you should have a number of examples that will cover this question already stored in your mind. It is a good time to get over the point that you are a team player who contributes effectively to a…
Legal Job Interview and Answer – describe a situation in which you have led a team.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a relatively easy question, mainly because the question is so short and gives you plenty of scope in terms of material and circumstances. It is likely that just about everybody can answer this question, whether through an example from work, an example from a sporting activity or personal interest or from their…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a Situation in which you dealt with confrontation, for example a difficult customer?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is an answer that most people can probably conjure up from somewhere as most of the workforce will have dealt with difficult customers. Everyone has had to deal with some sort of confrontation in their lives, whether in a sporting, academic or work environment. Try to think of a work-based example as these…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a project where you needed to involve input from other departments – how did you identify that need and how did you ensure buy-in from the appropriate leaders and managers?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a STAR competency based interview question. STAR stands for “Situation, Task, Action and Result” and this particular question is a strong example of where using this technique is so effective. Firstly it is probably almost impossible to answer this type of question without having thought about it before attending the interview. It…
Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a project or situation where you took a project to completion despite important opposition.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This type of question is competency based and involves using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Manna from heaven for any Six Sigma practitioners or business change managers. For everyone else it is a very difficult question indeed as the majority of professionals do not spend their working lives dealing with conflict in…
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 – Can you act on your own initiative
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice Although this is a closed question with potentially a simple yes or no answer, it does give you the opportunity to get over to the interviewer how you are quite comfortable working on your own and to demonstrate specific examples of times you have perhaps introduced new methods of working or increased sales through…
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…