JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION,"WHAT IS YOUR WEAKNESS?""

Di bawah ini adalah beberapa pertanyaan yang sering timbul ketika kita menghadapi interview. Dan terus terang saya sering kebingungan saat ditanya "Apa kelebihan dan kekurangan saudara?" Kadang saya banyak terdiam saat ditanya seperti itu. Berikut saya informasikan mengenai saran-saran saat interview yang saya ambil dari www.acpeople.com.au semoga kita semua dapat memahami dan lulus saat interview test.

Below we cover the types of questions to help you prepare for your interview. Each section has samples of situations, questions, appropriate answers and advice.


1. Question regarding “Personal Weakness”
More often than not, you will be asked about your weaknesses in an interview. If this seems daunting, follow the interview tips below;
Sample Question: "Looking at your own resume, what do you think your weaknesses are regarding this job?"
Answer: “I believe that my skills and abilities are a good fit for this position. Do you have any specific concerns?"
Advice: Take the opportunity to turn the question around and find out what they think your weaknesses are.

2. Question regarding “Hard Work Ethics”
You will often be asked questions in respect to your work ethic. Always try to validate your answer with examples.
Sample Question: "Would your current boss describe you as the type of person who goes that extra mile?"
Answer: "Absolutely. In fact, on my annual evaluations, he would write that I am the most dependable and flexible person on his staff. I think this is mostly because of my ability to prioritise."
Advice: Share an example or experience that demonstrates your dependability or willingness to tackle a tough project. If you describe "long hours of work," make sure that you prove the hours were productive, and not the result of poor time management.

3. Question regarding “Standing Out”
Often in an interview, you will be asked to separate yourself from other candidates who may be more qualified or may be less of a risk-factor.
Sample Question: "What new skills or ideas do you bring to the job that our internal candidates don't offer?"
Answer: "Because I've worked with the oldest player in this industry, I can help you avoid some of the mistakes we made in our established markets."
Advice: This question addresses your motivation in adding "true value" to the job. Evaluate the job carefully, considering current limitations or weaknesses in the department and your unique abilities. Your ability here to prove "I offer what you need and then some" could land you the job.
 
4. Being Specific
Sometimes in interviews, you will be asked questions that lend themselves to be answered vaguely or with lengthy explanations. Take this opportunity to direct your answer in a way that connects you with the position and company, be succinct and support your answer with appropriate specific examples.
Sample Question: "Why did you choose this particular career path?"
Answer: "I chose advertising because I have always been a strong communicator with a good eye for design. I have a particular interest in creating dynamic eye-catching pieces that support a new product being introduced to the market. I also like the fast-paced high-energy environment that seems to be commonplace in the advertising industry."
Advice: Your answer needs to convince the interviewers that your skills are exactly what they want. They want to know if you have a realistic view of what it is like to work in their industry. Be specific; show them that their industry and your career goals are in line with each other.

5. Tough questions regarding your past
There may be times an interviewer may ask a question regarding your past that can be hard to dodge. You should answer these carefully and try to come up with answers that can turn a potentially negative experience into a positive response.
Sample Question: I see that you didn not finish school.
Answer: "I decided to leave school because I was working 30 hours a week waiting tables to support myself. I felt that I did not have enough time to devote to my schoolwork. When I do anything, I always give 100%."
Advice: The interviewer is trying to gauge what kind of a risk you are. So you tend to complete things or just let them fall by the waist side? Give a good reason why you did not finish or explain why any issues related to it are in the past.
 
6. Questions about how you can “Contribute to the company”
Before an employer makes a decision to hire you, they will need to know how you have performed in the past and any other special contributions you can bring to the company
Sample Question: "Tell me about a special contribution you have made to your employer."
Answer: "In my last job, I ran the fund raiser campaign for three consecutive years. I believed it was an important cause, and I knew it was difficult for the company to find volunteers."
Advice: Don’t give long boring answers, instead focus you answers on the actions you took and the positive results that you obtained.
 
7. Questions regarding “Helping the Company”
When you are looking for a job, an employer will want to know what you can do to help or improve their company. Now is the time to tell them of your proven skills and knowledge that you gained with previous positions.
Sample Question: "Give me an example of how you can help my company."
Answer: "In my previous career my biggest contribution was my ability to accurately measure customer satisfaction and to continually feed this information back to our design and production departments. I developed special questionnaires, used focus groups and spent 10% of my time talking to customers. This attention to customer satisfaction is relevant in your industry as well. I look forward to adopting my quality program to a new type of product."
Advice: Use an example of a significant contribution you made in your past job that impacted the bottom line. Show how this ability transfers across industries from one functional area to another.
 
8. Questions regarding “Salary Expectations”
Everyone wants to make a lot of money working the job they love. You should be honest here. Saying that you will be ok working for $30,000 when you think you are worth $40,000 is not a very smart idea. Experience will show that you will lose interest in the job pretty quickly.
Sample Question: "Tell me about your salary expectations."
Answer: "Current salary information published by our State Association indicates a range of $30,000 to $40,000 a year. While I'm not certain how your salaries compare to this industry, my feeling is that my value would certainly be in the upper half of this national range."
Advice: You should answer this question in general terms. Mention the market value for yourself.

9."In Five Years…"
Employers will want to know your drive and a sense of what your future holds for you. They would prefer to hire someone with a sense of purpose. Employers may ask you to describe what you see yourself doing in the years to come, whether you will be at one company or another. Telling them you see yourself in their position may not be the best answer.
Sample Question: "Where do you want to be in five years?"
Answer: "In five years, I would like to have progressed to the point where I have bottom-line responsibility and the chance to lead an operations unit."
Advice: Avoid the urge to describe job titles; this makes you seem unbending and unrealistic, since you do not know or control the system of promotion. Describe new experiences or responsibilities you'd like to add in the future that build on the current job you are applying for.

10. Question regarding “Previous Bosses”
There will be times in an interview where questions about past co-workers and old bosses will pop up. Telling them how pathetic and bad they were is generally a bad career move.
Sample Question: "Tell me about your relationship with your previous bosses."
Answer: "My bosses would tell you that I've often been a sounding board for them. With all of my bosses, I developed a close rapport."
Advice: The interviewer is looking for a fit between the two of you. As you describe each previous boss, the interviewer will be making mental comparisons between your old bosses and themselves. Be honest but never sound too negative as your employer may consider you to be a hard person to work with.


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Pekanbaru, 22 Maret 2012.

MENGEVALUASI TAWARAN PEKERJAAN DARI SUATU PERUSAHAAN

When you receive a job offer, exciting as it may be, you are faced with the decision of whether to except or decline the job. Most organisations will usually give you a few days for you to ponder on the offer at hand.

There are many issues that you should consider when assessing a job offer. Will the organisation be a good place to work? Will the job be interesting? Are there opportunities for advancement? Is the salary fair? Does the employer offer good benefits? Below are some points to consider when evaluating your job offer.

The organisation — Background information on an organisation can help you to decide whether it is a good place for you to work. Factors to consider include the organisation’s business or activity, financial condition, age, size, and location.
You can generally find background information on a company through the Internet. Background information on the organisation may be available at your public or school library. If you cannot get an annual report, check the library for reference directories that may provide basic facts about the company, such as earnings, products and services, and number of employees.
Career centres at universities often have information on employers that is not available in libraries. Ask a career-centre representative how to find out about a particular organization.
Stories of the organization from TV, magazines and newspapers can tell you about the company’s success, failure and plan for the future. Are they inline with your plans?
Does the organisation’s business or activity match your own interests and beliefs?
It is easier to apply yourself to the work if you are enthusiastic about what the organisation does.
How will the size of the organisation affect you?
There are advantages and disadvantages for working for large and small organisations. Large firms generally offer a greater variety of training programs and career paths, more managerial levels for advancement, and better employee benefits than small firms. Large employers may also have more advanced technologies. However, jobs in large firms may tend to be highly specialized.
Jobs in small firms may offer broader authority and responsibility, a closer working relationship with top management, and a chance to clearly see your contribution to the success of the organization.
Where is the job located?
If the organisation is located far from where you live, or even another state, then you must consider the cost of living. Is it worth spending 2-3 hours on transport? Is it worth relocating?
Should you work for a relatively new organisation or one that is well established?
New businesses have a high failure rate, but for many people, the excitement of helping create a company and the potential for sharing in its success more than offsets the risk of job loss. However, it may be just as exciting and rewarding to work for a young firm that already has a foothold on success.
Salaries and benefit — Are you happy with the salary you are paid? In order to know if the offer is decent you should already have a rough estimate at what the industry is paying.
You should also learn the organisation’s policy regarding overtime. Will you be compensated with money? Time off? Find out how many hours you will be expected to work each week and whether you receive overtime pay or compensatory time off for working more than the specified number of hours in a week.
Benefits can also add a lot to your base pay, but they vary widely. Find out exactly what the benefit package includes and how much of the costs you must bear.
Is the organization in an industry with favorable long-term prospects?
The most successful firms tend to be in industries that are growing rapidly.
Nature of the job — Even if everything else about the job is attractive, you will be unhappy if you dislike the day-to-day work. Determining in advance whether you will like the work may be difficult. However, the more you find out about the job before accepting or rejecting the offer, the more likely you are to make the right choice. Actually working in the industry and, if possible, for the company would provide considerable insight. You can gain work experience through part-time, temporary, or summer jobs, or through internship or work-study programs while in school, all of which can lead to permanent job offers.
Does the work match your interests and make good use of your skills?
Make sure you are told the kind of jobs and responsibilities you will be given. Is it something that you will be interested in?
How long do most people who enter this job stay with the company?
High turnover can mean dissatisfaction with the nature of the work or something else about the job.
Opportunities offered by employers. A good job offers you opportunities to learn new skills, increase your earnings, and rise to positions of greater authority, responsibility, and prestige. If this is not the case then frustration and boredom can affect the way you work.
The employer should give you some idea of promotion possibilities within the organization. What is the next step on the career ladder? If you have to wait for a job to become vacant before you can be promoted, how long does this usually take? When opportunities for advancement do arise, will you compete with applicants from outside the company? Can you apply for jobs for which you qualify elsewhere within the organization, or is mobility within the firm limited?
Are you comfortable with the hours?
Most jobs involve regular hours—for example, 40 hours a week, during the day, Monday through Friday. However, other jobs require night, weekend, or holiday work. In addition, some jobs routinely require overtime to meet deadlines or sales or production goals, or to better serve customers. Consider the effect the work hours will have on your personal life.


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