Opening

Your opening is your first face to face opportunity to make a compelling argument that you are the best candidate for the job.  Listed below are a few of the possible interview questions that you may be asked in the interview.  Review each interview question below to prepare yourself for the interview.

Review these critical interview tips before your interview:

• Interview Etiquette

• How to Dress for Your Interview

• Questions to Ask the Interviewers

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• Learn how to practice right for the interview.

• Good or bad?  I wish, I think, I feel.

• How can hand gestures improve your interview performance?

• Why are mock interviews important?  Why isn't one mock interview enough?

• Why you shouldn't use limiting words such as "only" or "just"?

Plus:

• Answers to the toughest interview situations - follow-up letters, illegal questions, salary, job history questions and more!

• How to answer and how not to answer

• Questions to ask the interviewers

• What should you do the day of the interview?

• Identify possible interview questions

Job Interview Questions

Your opening is typically a question about you and your qualifications.  Selected sample questions are shown below.  Pay particular attention to the common interview questions:

• Experience and Qualifications 

• You 

• Your Resume 

Notice how small changes in the interview questions will change your answer.  Possible follow-up questions are noted with a bullet.  Use our mock interviews based on actual job listings and interviews for more interview practice:  

1. Describe yourself.

2. Tell us about yourself.

3. How are you qualified for the position?

4. How does your experience and training qualify you for the position?

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A detailed answer and analysis of a tough interview question from Matt & Nan DeLuca, authors of the best selling "Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions" and "More Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions"

Tell us about yourself.

First be prepared with a thumbnail sketch that you have rehearsed before your meeting.  Your answer should be no more than one minute long and include a description of where you have been recently as well as what you would like to do next. "I am an accounting professional with four years corporate experience who would now like to move over onto the public accounting side," is a brief example.  You might add at the end "Since your firm is highly regarded, I was very interested in learning more about the opportunities here."

Second, after you made you brief comment, either be quiet or close with, "Is there anything you would like me to add." Or, "Is that what you were hoping I would provide?" 

Third, listen carefully to the feedback to see if your answer was not sufficient, so that you might learn what specifically the interviewer would like you to add.

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