Sample Interview Questions for Your Second Job (1)
If you are looking for a second job then you need to take these sample interview questions very
seriously. They may help you to prepare your specific answers as per your current job requirements.
Go through them with a creative mind set.
Sample Interview Question No 1
What is the most pleasant task in your current job?
It depends upon your interests and aptitudes. The interviewer wants to know which task absorbs most of your interest. Look into your duties, your performances and your areas of interest. You shall find some specific task which like the most. They should be success oriented. It is advisable not to go for the money related tasks.
Interview Question No 2
The biggest challenge you have ever faced in your career life?
It is your time to tell what you consider a challenge. Be positive and you would find your level very easily. Go for a big challenge which entailed a big success. It is also your time to tell your future employer, how you tackle big challenges.
Sample Interview Question No 3
How your colleagues opine about you?
Do you care about opinion of your colleagues? My long administrative career has proved that when you perform better than others, most of the colleagues fall to jealousy. Such a stage shall not help you to find a good opinion about you. However, when you perform worse, they may be boasting about their better performances.
It is not matter of your performance but of your skill to handle interpersonal issues. When you care for others, avoid them criticizing and help them in problems, you shall get a good opinion of your colleagues. You may paint yourself as an approachable, dependable and amenable team member. But never try to paint yourself what you are not. If you are not a natural team leader, you need not to claim so.
Sample Interview Question No 4
What your friends say about you?
The previous question was about your interpersonal relation in the working environment. But the interviewer has suddenly focused his attention upon your life outside the work. Analyze your friendship relations with others. Your friends may term you popular, caring and kind person. It is better to ask their honest opinion about you.
Sample Interview Question No 5
What part of your current job, you dislike the most?
Every aspect of a job cant be pleasant. Otherwise, you would not be looking for a second job. It may be personality of your boss, long working hours, boring routines or low salary. But they are very smaller aspects. You need not to go for them.
Think about your major objective of your life...
then analyze what part of your current job is not allowing you to fulfill that objective. The description of those hurdles shall help your interviewers to believe that you are sincere to your objectives. The hurdles may be futile procedures, least place for creativity, small size of the company etc.
Sample Interview Question No 6
What do you think of your existing organization?
They may be bad in every aspect. But you need not to criticize your current employer. Be positive. Go for really strong points of the company. You may say that you have enjoyed working with your current organization. You may even thank your current organization to help you in reaching the level of your applied job. You may appreciate their training. You may describe your career progression with them.
Sample Interview Question No 7
Why do you want to leave your current job?
Isnt a tough question? You may be looking for better salary. You may have personal conflict with your immediate boss. The working environment may be nasty. You can list a lot number of such reasons but they will not work. When you analyze them a bit more, they would turn out to be your own weaknesses.
You need not to expose your weaknesses...
You may claim that you have overgrown to the opportunities that your current job offers. But you should be ready to substantiate your claim by counting your strong points. You also need to know what overgrowth means. You also need to analyze your methods/procedures that helped you to overgrow.
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