Factor 1: Aggressiveness and Enthusiasm
What can you do to be an aggressive candidate and how can you demonstrate your aggressiveness in this interview?
I will show that I am self disciplined and confident. I will exhibit confidence in how I handle questions without being distracted by fear.
What genuine enthusiasm do you have for this organization, its products and/or services, and the job itself?
Zeal and determination to positively impact all those I will work with. I will strive to deliver and meet the goals and objectives set out by not only the organization but my own goals too.
What is your best story to demonstrate that you are an aggressive employee?
I am very active and adventurous by default because I am always eager to explore new things. This enables me to set goals every often and strive to achieve them for my own good and for the good of others.
What is your best story to show what you can do when you are enthusiastic about a product or service?
I will go out of my way to market or sell it to the target market having set out a clear way of doing so and setting goals that I will want to achieve after a certain period of time. if I will not have achieved the goals and objectives, I will revise my strategies and strive to meet my targets over and over again.
Factor 2: communication Skills
Rate yourself on the following communication skills from 1 to 10, 1 being the strongest and 10 weakest:
- Networking
- Listening
- Debating
- Negotiating
- Selling
- Report writing
- Letter writing
- Creative writing
- Summarizing
- Public speaking
Creative writing - Write something each single day of my life, could be a story about how the day has been like or even my meals of the day
Summarizing - Take up a piece of writing, like a newspaper and summarize a story I have read into a simple paragraph. I can do this twice or thrice in a week.
Public speaking – I will be standing in front of a mirror and talk into it. Address an imaginary audience.
Factor 3: Record of Success
List the five achievements in your work life of which you are proudest and describe the unique role you played in bringing about a successful outcome.
Achievement 1: Best departmental report of the year
I compiled the monthly and quarterly reports as well as the bidding documents. I also wrote the complete report that was recognized by the organization
Achievement 2: Best sales representative of the year
I recorded the highest sales in the year that ended June 2012.
Achievement 3: Best employee of the year
I showed exemplary character in regard to how I handled various tasks I had been given in the course of the year. I had set out to accomplish so much that I had set out to do.
Achievement 4: Most improved employee of the year
My records showed that I had improved tremendously in performance from what I had achieved the previous year. This was as a result of the targets I had set out achieving by the end of the year.
Achievement 5: Always achieving my goals.
This is so because once I have set my mind to do something, I always want to get the best out of it and therefore I can go to great lengths in order to achieve them
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Factor 4: Rational Thought process
Clarifying problems (4)
The organization had been faced with the issue of marketing and exploring newer grounds in regard to the clientele. I tried explaining to my bosses and the general manager why it had been hard to reach our goals by clarifying to them the major impediments that had halted our initial plans.
Evaluation alternatives (4)
I presented to the management a report where I compared the plans that we were working on and those that we intended to pursue in an effort of reaching out to a wider clientele.
General Solutions (2)
I will research widely and introduce new techniques as well as consulting my colleagues in the department so as to come up with the best solutions.
Testing ideas (1)
I am not always keen on putting to test abstract ideas into action but now, I know that these are the ideas that lead to innovations. I will always try out something new as long as it is meant to boost performance and returns but of course after I have widely consulted in order to get the support of my colleagues and bosses.
Determining outcomes (3)
Evaluate and project my energies on positive outcomes and work hard in attaining only that.
Factor 5: Maturity
If you could set your age, not by chronological date, but by level, how old would you be?
40 years
Work experience- I have been able to achieve much than many of my age mates have not achieved. This is seen through my appointments to chair departmental meetings as well as lead my colleagues in many office duties, some of those that I lead are much older than I am.
Family experience- I have made major investments and saving decisions as a measure to safeguard my future as well as the future of my family.
Social experience- I have always responded to experiences in an appropriate manner depending on who I am engaged with at every instance. For instance, I had to work hard in order to get good grades in school not because I needed to impress anyone but because I looked the whole scenario like a lifelong challenge and experience that could affect me in society in the long run, the outcome could affect me in fifty years time.
Factor 6: Planning and Organization
What is the most elaborate project you ever organized: what was your role in the project?
I planned for and organized a recreational venture for team building in our department. I was the chief coordinator of the project and it came out successful.
Factor 7: Reaction to Pressure
Reaction 1: Sweaty Hands
Strategy- Have a good cotton handkerchief to wipe the sweat and also talk to myself, to reassure myself that all will be well and that I can handle it just like any other situation.
Reaction 2: Stammering
Strategy- Focus on the right answers and deliver them candidly.
Reaction 3: Anxiety
Strategy- Remind myself that an interview is just like any other life experience and choose to focus on the job and the fruits it’s going to bear and not the challenge
Incidents where I handled stress well
- I had been given a report to do and needed to present it in the shortest time possible. It did not matter that I had a few hours to do it but I managed and handed it in on time.
- I was requested to do a presentation that I had not prepared for but I managed to do it and was commended for a job well done.
- A computer crashed just about when I was to hand in an assignment that I had been given to do and I had to redo it from scratch. It weighed me down because I had a deadline to beat.
