Questions & Answers During Interviews

These are the questions that usually asked during interviews , followed by the best answers that I can give. However, these are my answers, so your answers would probably differ from mine.

1. What is your greatest strength?

-My greates strength is my personality. I have a positive aura where I can easily convince people. I am good in communication too. I never have problem when it comes to blend with people and I can always make a great team.
I am excellent in time management , efficient and I am known as a workaholic. I work with quality, I do prioritize the quality of my job. Just give me any problems, well I can think of their solutions.


2. What is your greatest weekness?

-As I prioritize the quality of my work, I do not want it to be done just to meet the deadlines, I rather work on the quality of it so I usually tend to spend little too much time checking it. To come to a good balance of it, I choose to finish the project well ahead of schedule. I am not a well-organized person but with implementing a well-time-management must have helped me a lot in being well-organized.

3. How do you handle stress and pressure?

-From a personal perspective, I would have rather avoid it than to face it. For me, the environment and surrounding becomes stressful when the deadlines are approaching. I usually try to bend over backward to finish my work well ahead of schedule to avoid stress. However if the stress is still there, I will calm down and try to react to the situation and ignore the stress and pressure. This is when I have to prioritize my responsibilities, focus and get the job done.

4. Why did you leave your job?

-Other than the reason that I am relocating to this area due to family circumstances, I could not find any room for my carrier growth with my previous employer. I found it bored and I was unhappy. I am an excellent worker so I do not want this to stop my carrier growth, besides I could not hunt for job and attending interviews when I was still working, So this is why I left my previous job. 

5. Why do you want this job?

- I think this is a fine opportunity where I can start my carrier. I do not think that it is neessary to work with a company that is related to what I was studying, but with my working experiences, I was exposed in quite a number of working environments so I can say that I am quite tough in whatever environment is. I well understand that this is a company that is on a way up and I really want to be apart of it.

6. Why should we hire you?

- I am not only a fresh gradute, I have many types of working experiences and I am a fresh graduate with a new spirit and determination. My workaholism was proved during my study and I have known as a hardworking student during my universities days and I never miss any deadlines before. As long as I am enjoy working I will give my 100% commiment.

7. What are your goals for the future?

- I would like stay within a company that I can continue to learn and improve myself as well as contributing to the company and I can see myself on top, in a well established company. I plan to improve my skills in professional profession.

8. Tell me more about yourself

- I can be considered as a fresh graduate in Bac (Hons) Material Tecnnology.  but with few working experiences. I love to work and blend with people, whenever I have free and enough time, I will work where most of the time I work as a Part-timer. Working and studying at the same time had trained me to manage time wisely and improve myself a lot on how I handle myself in pressure condition. And what is best about my self is my curiosity, I love to learn new things and take new challenge just to improve the quality in me

I'm a people person. I can work in team and working under various environments and this is my way to improve myself. I'm a perfectionist. I pay attention to all the details, and like to be sure that everything is just right.

9. What are your salary expectations?

I think that I need more info about this job and it's responsibilities before we can discuss the salary. But it would be better if you can give  me a clear idea of the salary range budgeted for this position.

Tips for Resume and interviews

From the previous entry, I did promise you guys that I was going to write about the tips on interviews and writing a good resume. The following are some tips that I study and try to simplify into bullet notes.

How to get your resume stand out?

1. Simple ( use bullet points)
2.Readable ( clear and rigid sentences)
3.Interesting ( Arrangement of the resume; design and templates)
4.Suitable Fonts
5. Image of resume reflects the expected salary
6. Keep updating!

Okay, your resume mestilah simple, jangan terlalu meriah. Sila tulis apa yang penting dan kalau boleh dalam points bukan dalam ayat-ayat yang panjang seperti esei ya. Resume anda mestilah menarik, jika orang lihat akan terasa seperti nak baca. Untuk menjadikan resume anda menarik, anda perlulah mencari fonts and size yang sesuai, design dan templates yang cantik. Anda boleh buat some research through google search. Jika anda mengharapkan salary yang tinggi, anda perlu bekerja lebih di atas kertas resume anda, hasil kerja resume anda perlulah sepadan atau setanding dengan salary yang diharapkan. Jika anda mempunyai working experience yang sangat banyak, sila simplify dan tulis apa yang penting sahaja dan jangan lupa sertakan reference untuk setiap satu jawatan. Jangan lupa update dari semasa ke semasa :)

Selepas dah siap resume, anda bolehlah memohon online jawatan yang anda suka dari company pilihan.
Nasihat saya, selain menghantar resume online through emails, anda juga perlu menghubungi syarikat berkenaan secara terus bertanyakan jawatan tersebut supaya nampak effort anda di situ.

Juga pastikan anda menghantar hard copies of your resume berserta cover letter via PosLaju atau hand it over sendiri dekat company berkenaan atau melalui sahabat handal atau kenalan dari syarikat tersebut :)

To attend the interviews, you have to prepare everything earlier for examples; the hard copies of your resume and all the certs including the originals and photo-copies organized in a clear file.

These are what you can do as a preparation before , during and after the interviews.

Before Interview

1. Study about the position applied
2. Practice in front of mirror, record them, play, listen and improve your communication skills
3. Do some research of the potential academic questions being asked.
4. Prepare your outfits!

Sebelum interview buatlah persediaan apa yang perlu, penuhkan ilmu di dada jadi anda akan ada semua gambaran jawapan semasa temuduga. Praktis dihadapan cermin dan berlatihlah mimik muka yang confident :) Cari soalan-soalan yang interviewers berpotensi nak tanya anda. Pada entry akan datang, saya akan upload contoh soalan dan jawapan yang saya sediakan dan karang sendiri untuk soalan-soalan yang mungkin akan ditanya oleh penemuduga.

Selain itu, pakaian bagi saya adalah yang paling penting, sebab pakaian adalah apa yang orang akan judge pada first impression mereka. Pakailah pakaian yang menampakkan diri anda sophisticated dan mampu bekerja dengan mereka. Cara pakaian pun boleh search kat Google :)

During Interview

1. Be there on time or 10 minutes earlier at least!
2. Greet the interviews.
3. Be friendly, be fluent and be confident !
4. Smile:)
5. Make the interviewers comfortable. Balance the formal and informal communication ( you know what I mean) Eye contact is important.

Praktikkan segala benda yang anda dah berlatih di rumah. Jangan panik nanti lupa apa yang kita nak sampaikan. Buat penemu-duga tersebut selesa dengan anda. Anda perlu bijak handle keadaan, jika anda mampu menjadikan keadaan yang formal convert kepada informal, (ini yang saya selalu buat) silakan. Tetapi perlu ingat, berpada-pada dan jangan over !

After Interview

1. Writing a Thank-You letter
2. Doa

Selepas interview, hantarlah surat terima kasih atas masa yang diluangkan dan tunjuk rasa minat dan harapan anda terhadap jawatan yang dipohon. Dan jangan lupa doa :)

All The Best Then :)

Interviews.. Interviews

After examination had ended, before I got my examination result, I applied for so many positions.
Saja nak try atas advice orang yang lebih berpengalaman, apply je banyak-banyak then pergilah interview tu so that I can have a lot of experiences of being interviewed.

So I pun apply lah and yes I received so many calls , suruh attend interviews. At first I was like.. besttt nyee.. orang lain x dapat I dah dapat dah. But then sampai lah my 8th interview call, I dah muak, dah takut, sampai I tak pickup any unknown numbers pun. Haha :D
Kawan-kawan takda pun pegi interview, I dah rasa takut kenapa I je yang dapat.

Tambahan pulak every interview offers I update kat Facebook and Twitter. My posts had frightened many of my friends yang tak dapat any interview calls lagi. Then I received a lot of messages in my FB inbox requesting my resume as a reference to them.

So taknak jadi kedekut, I share everything with anyone yang mintak, siap bagi tips semua.

I think my next entry I will share all the resume and interview tips okay? BTW I dapat 4 job offers out of 8 interview offers yang I had attended only 5 interviews.

The last interview tak dapat pergi so I cancelled with the company sebab I decided to accept the job offered by Kruvent Industries which I am working now :) I started the job betul-betul lepas dapat result. However I am glad that I got the permanent job faster because I am sick of working parttimely like before.

Next entry will be the tips okay. These tips I harap dapat share with all my friends yang belum kerja.

see ya :)