Female HR Executive

I decide on the order of my task list and prioritize tasks according to the instructions from my seniors. I try to deliver urgent tasks first and then the remaining ones. In case the urgency part is unclear, I prioritize complicated or time taking projects over the simpler and smaller ones. Throughout the process, I keep adapting and updating my seniors to ensure that I am on track and my efforts are not getting wasted.

Do not get intimidated with this HR interview question and answer. You can be open about the other offer or keep it private, depending on how happy you are with it. HR recruiters generally ask this to understand your demand in the market. They also want to know that by the time they interview you and reach the offer stage, you would have already accepted another one.

Being an L3 or senior level Windows/Linux Administrator I have mastered my virtualization experience on VMware, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V etc. I made sure to understand storage and networking better last year. I picked up PERL scripting last month and plan to pick up Ruby and Python in the next 3 months. I am also a beginner level programmer as I learnt C++. I mastered Chef on job and have deployed Amazon AWS to understand cloud better. I also earned my Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) license and I am targeting RHCA by the end of 2017.

Don’t just talk about your strengths, your interviewer genuinely wants to know about your strong points.

This is to know how well you can make yourself comfortable with your fellow staff. Every organization prefers employees who work accordingly with their colleagues.

So while answering this question start with the example of your previous worked organization where you worked comfortably and successfully.

The main and very essential tip for every candidate is to never badmouth their previous working employer or industry.

Always avoid statements like “personal problem”, “personality clash” or “didn’t get along” kind of excuse while answering for your relieving the previous job.

If you are currently having a job, don’t be nervous to answer because you are part of that organization and you know in and out of it. But still you are not allowed for such badmouth so it’s better if you state that why would you prefer to find a new job.

This is not an easy question to answer. You could ask them to explain what their recruitment process is; as you have only experienced it from the outside, and then go on to suggest that it is difficult to provide an honest appraisal without having the opportunity to experience it from the HR perspective.

An answer to this question should be personal to you, but also say that you enjoy communicating with people and like to help. By working closely with people you can better understand their needs and aspirations and help them to achieve their goals.

Till date, I have accomplished several goals and milestones in my career as an app developer. The one that rings a bell is the latest version update on a core product of my current organization for customer profiling and payments. We had been slogging on this version update for 12 months at a stretch and I was a core team member. My team made me their team lead during the last 6 months and at that time, we were working on the mobile components of the product. To meet the deadline, I brought in 5 more resources, who had expertise in certain technologies, which were crucial for the pending modules.

Yes, I am not only reliable but also a very dependable person. If a task is assigned to me, it will be dutifully handled and completed within the stipulated deadline.

Through this question employer may feels that you may grow dissatisfied and eventually leave the job later.

Don’t ever feel that this question made all your effort fail but instead of that teach the employer to look into this question in a different way.

Show him/her what’s best for his/her business and also the advantages instead of drawbacks.

This question is asked exclusively to experienced professionals who have switched jobs more than two times in their entire career. Freshers can skip to the next question.

I still regret turning down the position offered to me at XYZ company last year. I have gained good experience in my present organization. But it’s good that I turned it down, otherwise, I wouldn’t have been promoted and become a Manager. Neither I would have got the opportunity to interview with your esteemed organization today!

Most freshers might treat this as a challenging question. Remember that it’s not some sort of a blow to your ego, but a stress test which you can pass smoothly with a powerful answer. Below given is your perfect answer, which you can use in your discussion pertaining to HR interview questions and answers.

Never answer “NO” this may slam all the doors of your effort shut instantly.

First find out where you have to relocate and how much travel time is involved. Then respond to the question, if you are fine with it.

This is really very casual conversation through which an interviewer is trying to communicate with the candidate. By asking about interests and hobbies, an interviewer is considering candidates ability and dedication.

So the candidate can be normal while answering this question and even can explain an interviewer about his achievements in such area of interests.

Say that HR provides many opportunities to add creativity to a company when a more creative attitude is taken. A successful business is about creating a culture of creativity and HR can guide a business in this matter.

In a team, there are times when I and some of my peers work hard to achieve a goal, while there are some people who leave their modules incomplete or quit mid-way. At such a juncture, this load also gets assigned to us, the hardworking lot. I don’t mind helping my peers out, but when an extra load of work gets assigned to me in the 11th hour, I get irritated. Sometimes, when I know that I cannot do justice to this new module, I politely refuse to take it up.

This question is asked to see your approach, to see how you react if your shift change after some point of time.

So always take these kind of questions in a positive way, because it is asked just to check your approachability.

If shift rotation is there you will be knowing it before you start applying for this job. So, if an employer asks such hr question in interview it is just to know your approach.

This interview tricky question is popped because the employer wants to be clear whether the candidate applying for is aware of the duties and it helps him to make decision easy.

The candidate should do his/her homework about understanding the job description and be responsible enough to answer the question.