Important HR Interview Questions P2

Tell me honestly about the strong points and weak points of your boss (company, management team, etc.)
Never be negative. Stress only the good points
Your interviewer wants to find out how loyal and positive you are.

What good books have you read lately?
A handful of the most recent and influential books in your profession

Tell me about a situation when your work was criticized ?
choose something that in no way is essential to your successful performance.

What are your outside interests ?
Try to gauge how this company’s culture would look upon your favorite outside activities.
Remember that your employer is hiring your for what you can do for him, not your family, yourself or outside organizations, no matter how admirable those activities may be.

How do you feel about reporting to a younger person (minority, woman, etc)?
You greatly admire a company that hires and promotes on merit alone. It would certainly make no difference to you.

On confidential matters
Never reveal anything truly confidential about a present or former employer.
Say, "I wish to respect the rights of those who have trusted me with their most sensitive information".

What would you say to your boss if he’s crazy about an idea, but you think it stinks ?
always choose integrity.

How could you have improved your career progress ?
You take responsibility for where you are and you harbor no regrets.

You’ve been with your firm a long time. Won’t it be hard switching to a new company ?
You must point to the many ways you have grown and adapted to changing conditions. you’ve learned to adapt quickly. To further assure the interviewer, describe the similarities between the new position and your prior one.

May I contact your present employer for a reference ?
you’d like to keep your job search private, but that in time, it will be perfectly okay.

Where could you use some improvement ?
Keep this answer positive. Identify a cutting-edge branch and want to explore more fully over the next six months.

What do you worry about ?
Dont let this word reflect negatively upon you.