Preparing for the interview, each applicant decide for himself what his profile to focus. But when the dress code is observed, a summary compiled correctly, and positive attitude, it only remains to consider what questions to ask the employer?Applicants for whom the forthcoming interview was not the very first, know that along with the discussion of professional experience, tests and cases, employers will ask a couple of standard questions, the answers to which can be prepared in advance.
Obviously, when the element of surprise is missing, and the answer to the question describes a candidate solely on the positive side, the recruiter, quite rightly, is born the seed of doubt, as does the companion truth?
so, what questions the recruiter often gets socially expected responses? Here are some examples:
Why did You leave your previous job?
This question can be easily placed on first place in the rating of the questions that applicants often meet a lie.
the Answers to this question, there are a great many, however, at interview, usually offered the following:
In this company I have reached the maximum growth and did not see its further development.
I had some personal circumstances that have forced me to resign.
the company had planned reduction/liquidation/bankruptcy and I played ahead of the curve.
Another frequently asked employer questions:
Why You want to work in our company?
And the most popular answer:
I know about Your company, consider Your products to the highest quality, to be a part of Your team is an honor for me!
How do you feel about overtime?
it would Seem that the answer to this question is obvious, however, procured a great option unrighteousness:
If work brings me pleasure and if I can adjust my earnings, then processing consider operational needs and fit everything with enthusiasm.
Or variation from the ideal applicant:
When I am passionate about the work, and I always go to work with his head, I do not notice the passage of time! Almost always I work without a break for lunch, in the evenings and weekends, because I’m unmarried, childless workaholic with a mortgage!
as it has long been observed that it is difficult to tell the truth on the following question:
How do you spend your free time?
on the weekends I love to spend time with my family, we go on the nature, active rest.
And this is almost true, because they are actually the whole family go to the supermarket, then cooking, watching talk shows and sleep.
so, what turns the picture? On the one hand there is the recruiter, which, in most cases, understands that receives responses far from the truth. On the other hand has the applicant, who is very tired to come up with a new hobby and very afraid that after employment it will record in corporate football team, and six next Saturday he will spend on the field, defending the honor of his Department.
However, do not underestimate the role of socio-expected answers. First of all, this is a great opportunity for a candidate to show themselves in a favorable light. In the conversation, responding to the expected question, the candidate can show their best qualities, from sociability to sense of humor. And then, not necessarily because the candidate wants to deceive the employer, sometimes simply presents information from their point of view.
as socially expected responses allow the employer to identify the suitability of the candidate to modern conditions of work in large companies, namely the ability to show and behave like a profitable company. Yes, modern realities dictate certain rules and patterns of behavior, thus, if the candidate exaggerates their dedication to the company’s products, this means that he adopts a policy of patriotism and will to follow it. As they say, penny, in the body!
But the questions are asked, the answers received, but the employer is still in doubt. What if the candidate really does have something to hide? As yet to understand where the desire to embellish, and where an outright lie? If the answers section «foreign language» or «use PC» you can check with the help of tests, test personality is much more complicated. Here come to the aid of various tricks, such as test questions. Test questions are usually not immediately, as if to distract the candidate from a given topic.
for Example, if at the beginning of the interview the recruiter listened to a short ode to a former employer or prepared excerpt from the novel «the way we were the best team in the region, then in the end he may be asked to give examples of conflicts with the boss. And here you can hear the story of how the applicant from month to month trying to prove that the plans unreasonably overestimated, but it was useless, because the head of the tyrant, and the chief accountant of his wife.
the same inconsistent responses identified during the discussion of the motivation of the candidate. First there are the ideal version of loyalty to the brand and the desire to grow, then it turns out that without the provision of a working vehicle to develop not so interesting.
But the most experienced recruiters see a liar from far away, this helps them sign language. Everyone knows that there are certain visual indicators of what the interviewee is telling the truth. Here are some examples:
All these visual symptoms were discovered and proven in different times, different scientists from around the world. But do not think that if the person scratches his ear or neck, then surely he is lying, maybe he’s just an attack of allergies.
For himself every man determines to talk to him during the interview the truth or to give socially expected responses, the main thing to remember is that all secret always becomes apparent.
Catherine Valiulina,
Recruitment company AVICONN
Junior recruiter