Job interview questions for selection of managers

Interview Questions

1. Describe a situation in which you had to persuade another person to change his or her opinion about how to perform a task. What arguments did you use? What points did the other person bring up? How did you respond to these?

2. Describe a situation in which you had to tell an individual that he or she had performed a task incorrectly. What did you tell the person? What did the person say in response? How did you end the conversation?

3. You are scheduled to attend a training session tomorrow. That night you receive a telephone call that a close relative is seriously ill. What do you do?

2. Comprehension check.

Read the text again more carefully. Here are some answers about the interview. Write the questions.

1. _____________________________________________________________?

To assess the applicant’s job-related KSAs.

b) _______________________________________________________________?

It means that the interviewer asks the same set of job-related questions of each candidate.

c) _______________________________________________________________?

Because the applicants are evaluated on the same characteristics.

d) _______________________________________________________________?

It provides some examples of job-related questions.

e) _______________________________________________________________?

In making selection decisions.

f) _______________________________________________________________?

It is concerned with conducting a job interview and evaluating applicants.

g) _______________________________________________________________?

These are legal issues, physical barriers to interaction, guiding the interview, and how to establish relationship with the applicant.

h) _______________________________________________________________?

In training for making evaluations of applicants.

Vocabulary 2

2. Do you know what these abbreviations stand for? Can you pronounce them? Explain their meanings in English.

1) c.v.

2) IBM

3) PC

4) PhD

2. Identify an ‘odd’ word in each set. Use your dictionary if necessary.

1. a) sound b) operate c) technical d) heavy

2. a) software b) sound c) communicate d) suppose

3. a) hardware d) development c) software d) confident

4. a) data b) carry out c) communicate d) discuss

5. a) adventure b) compatible c) network d) department

6. a) automated b) computer-aided c) set-up d) wasted

7. a) access b) sales c) hardware d) consultancy

8. a) interesting b) powerful c) banking d) useful

3. Match up each of the words and word combinations in A to its synonym or an explanation for it in B. Use your dictionary if necessary.

A B

sound	to seem
to communicate	business
software	associate
customer	issue
anyway	chief
to sound	to function
confident	system
matter	sure
to go into detail	past performance
hardware	good
set-up	to get into
network	selling
compatibles	to speak
to operate	varied
workstation	to become a member
to access	in any case
to refresh smb’s memory	to refuse
mixed	to enlarge on
career	computer equipment
to join	to enter upon
assistant	clever
head	to say the reasonable thing
sale	profession
overseas	to make someone remember something
marketing	the programs used by computers for doing particular jobs
track record
smart	pieces of computer equipment that can be used together
to move into
global navigation	to be determined by
to apply	computer unit
to have a point	not at work for a year
a year off	the ways in which a company encourages people to buy its products
to depend on
satellite	abroad
to turn down	sailing around the world
	to use
	client
	an object that is spent into space to travel round the Earth

Pre-listening task

1. In what situation could you hear the following phrases?

Software Engineering Manager

to sound confident

to discuss technical matters

c.v.

present job

set-up

rather a mixed career

to join the company

a head of department

track record

to move from banking to printing

to move into heavy industry

3. Who do you think is saying these phrases?