A job interview sets the task of assessing the personal and business qualities of the applicant — how they correspond to what is required at work.
If you need to assess the business qualities, namely the level of organization of the applicant, it is useful to ask (ask): «List the affairs of your usual day at your previous job!» — and then observe how many cases a person remembers and at what speed.
We remember: we determined the duration of the case from 3 to 30 minutes, the average duration is 15 minutes. Working time is 500 minutes on average. How many cases fit in working hours? — 33 cases. Okay, 30. But not 10. You are not a bum. For an idler, the day consists of: “Woke up. I ate … And then I don’t remember … ”And the more detailed and specific you see your day, the more accurately you set tasks for yourself, the more efficiently you work.
Timur Gagin
At interviews, I most often acted as an employer, so I can only speak from this point of view. I didn’t ask, I watched.
It’s not about what a person says about himself, but how he behaves. Behavior is something you can’t really fake. When a person does not know how to behave, he behaves as he is used to, and this is the most interesting thing. Depending on what I eventually needed to get from the existing requirements, I paid attention to the different abilities of the applicant, different predispositions.
What I really tried to pay attention to was that for a person the intended work was not difficult. Why? Everything is simple. If, with his abilities, the work is difficult, then he will perform it worse, while estimating himself higher and thinking that he is seriously straining, simply because he is not very capable of this work. In this sense, misleading a potential employer about one’s real abilities is not beneficial, first of all, to the applicant for the vacancy.
But these arguments make sense only for those who are really going to work. An attempt to imitate an employer is a pitfall that a person arranges for himself.