The present recruiters have become very careful while hiring the
candidates, especially when interviewing smart candidates. Asking tricky
questions is a form of saving time is also a method to find out what
kind of candidate they are actually interviewing, says Joyce Lain
Kennedy, a career columnist and author of the book “Job interviews for
Dummies”. Most of the time, the questions asked by the recruiters will
be misleading just to figure out how smart is the candidate to answer
the questions. Here is the list of tricky questions which can be asked
by the hiring managers to the candidates as listed out by Joyce Lain
Kennedy. You can also get to know the real meaning behind each question
and the candidates can get to know how well they can answer it, as
reported on Forbes website. You can learn how to answer the question in a
much effective way.
1. Suppose you are hired here, how will you manage your time for other interviews?
Real meaning: To figure out, do you have any plans for changing your profession in a short time
Answer you can give: “I will be dedicated to the company and my position and I won’t be having any other career changing plans for the near future”.
2. How have you prepared for this job interview?
Real meaning: To find out, how much does this job really matter to you?
Answer you can give: “I am very much interested and excited to be hired for this job and I have also researched a lot to know some of the essential things about the company through the company website as I would love to work for this company.”
3. You know anyone working for us in this company?
Real meaning: just to know if they can get a good judge to know about your real character.
Answer you can give: Here, if you have a friend or an old colleague working for the company you are being interviewed, you can mention their name if you are sure that they hold a positive standing in the entire company and at the same time it will be good to avoid mentioning a friend’s name who is working there with negative standings, who has put the company’s reputation in trouble many times, because if you mention that person’s name it is you who will be in trouble to get that job.
4. Where would you like to work in future?
Real Meaning: Just to know if you have applied for all the job openings in sight.
Answer you can give: “This is my dream place to work and this is the field I am interested to work on every time.”
5. What is it that bugs you about your boss and your co-workers?
Real Meaning: Just to find out whether you are a social person or not to work with.
Answer you can give: “I have got good bosses and co-workers in all my previous professions. They were all supportive and friendly without any position barrier.”
6. Have you ever solved any critical problems in your earlier professions?
Real meaning: To know, whether you can think critically and work harder to solve the problem.
Answer you can give: Try to highlight an instance where you had worked harder to solve the problem in any of your previous companies. Also inform them about the skills you utilized to solve that problem and at last explain them about how you finally solved the problem successfully.
7. Explain about a work which you messed up.
Real meaning: To know about whether you will be repeating the same mistake again and again and also to check whether you will list out a big list of your flaws.
Answer you can give: Even though you have committed many mistakes at your previous offices, just explain them about any one of your flaws and make them also aware of the fact that you have learnt a very essential lesson from that experience and try to convince them that you are not going to repeat that mistake again any time.
8. Just think you have won a lottery, would you like to still continue with our company?
Real meaning: To figure out you are a hard worker or not as well as to know how much dedicated and interested you are towards your job.
Answer you can give: “If I win a lottery definitely I will be thrilled by hearing that news, but that doesn’t mean I will quit my job, because I enjoy meeting new challenges and enjoying my work every day.”
9. Will you continue in this company even after you don’t get promoted to higher positions after five years of your service to this company?
Real meaning: To know which is important to you is it your position or your field of interest.
Answer you can give: “Even if I am not promoted to higher positions, I don’t mind continuing to learn and grow in my current position. I will be a happy employee without any frustration”.
10. Can I trust you before hiring you? Because you have already changed many jobs before coming here.
Real meaning: To make sure whether they can be confident about hiring you.
Answer you can give: “Changing many jobs has helped me to be a better employee and it has helped me to gain various knowledge and different skills which I have learnt from different companies. And I think I can make a good use of that if I get hired here.”
1. Suppose you are hired here, how will you manage your time for other interviews?
Real meaning: To figure out, do you have any plans for changing your profession in a short time
Answer you can give: “I will be dedicated to the company and my position and I won’t be having any other career changing plans for the near future”.
2. How have you prepared for this job interview?
Real meaning: To find out, how much does this job really matter to you?
Answer you can give: “I am very much interested and excited to be hired for this job and I have also researched a lot to know some of the essential things about the company through the company website as I would love to work for this company.”
3. You know anyone working for us in this company?
Real meaning: just to know if they can get a good judge to know about your real character.
Answer you can give: Here, if you have a friend or an old colleague working for the company you are being interviewed, you can mention their name if you are sure that they hold a positive standing in the entire company and at the same time it will be good to avoid mentioning a friend’s name who is working there with negative standings, who has put the company’s reputation in trouble many times, because if you mention that person’s name it is you who will be in trouble to get that job.
4. Where would you like to work in future?
Real Meaning: Just to know if you have applied for all the job openings in sight.
Answer you can give: “This is my dream place to work and this is the field I am interested to work on every time.”
5. What is it that bugs you about your boss and your co-workers?
Real Meaning: Just to find out whether you are a social person or not to work with.
Answer you can give: “I have got good bosses and co-workers in all my previous professions. They were all supportive and friendly without any position barrier.”
6. Have you ever solved any critical problems in your earlier professions?
Real meaning: To know, whether you can think critically and work harder to solve the problem.
Answer you can give: Try to highlight an instance where you had worked harder to solve the problem in any of your previous companies. Also inform them about the skills you utilized to solve that problem and at last explain them about how you finally solved the problem successfully.
7. Explain about a work which you messed up.
Real meaning: To know about whether you will be repeating the same mistake again and again and also to check whether you will list out a big list of your flaws.
Answer you can give: Even though you have committed many mistakes at your previous offices, just explain them about any one of your flaws and make them also aware of the fact that you have learnt a very essential lesson from that experience and try to convince them that you are not going to repeat that mistake again any time.
8. Just think you have won a lottery, would you like to still continue with our company?
Real meaning: To figure out you are a hard worker or not as well as to know how much dedicated and interested you are towards your job.
Answer you can give: “If I win a lottery definitely I will be thrilled by hearing that news, but that doesn’t mean I will quit my job, because I enjoy meeting new challenges and enjoying my work every day.”
9. Will you continue in this company even after you don’t get promoted to higher positions after five years of your service to this company?
Real meaning: To know which is important to you is it your position or your field of interest.
Answer you can give: “Even if I am not promoted to higher positions, I don’t mind continuing to learn and grow in my current position. I will be a happy employee without any frustration”.
10. Can I trust you before hiring you? Because you have already changed many jobs before coming here.
Real meaning: To make sure whether they can be confident about hiring you.
Answer you can give: “Changing many jobs has helped me to be a better employee and it has helped me to gain various knowledge and different skills which I have learnt from different companies. And I think I can make a good use of that if I get hired here.”
Last Updated Date: July 18, 2012
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