In brief: “There will be several questions during your job interview that might be critical – These are the tough interview questions. You should be prepared to know how to answer these types of job interview questions.”

 

All said and done, interviews are a series of questions and answers asked by one individual to another to ascertain whether the individual in question is fit for a job. Therefore, it is evident that there will be several behavioral job interview questions that might be critical and delicate in nature. The article provides some great tips on answering these tough interview questions.

4 great tips on how to answer tough interview questions

These tough interview questions might be anything, from like – why did you fire from your previous job, why did you leave your previous job to why you are looking for a new job while still working. Anyway, the only thing that stands between you and a new job is an acceptable answer to these questions. Here are some job interview tips and techniques on how to answer these tough job interview questions:

1. Keep your body language in check
The first thing to remember while answering tough interview questions is that one should keep his interview body language in check. There should be no visible taut of features, or the slight aversion of eyesight etc. There have been cases where individuals have actually been caught with their mouth agape at a tough interview question.

2. Let it out

The best way is to let it out. While the above tip will just prepare you as to how to present yourself while answering these tough interview questions, this tip will actually tell you how to answer the question. The corporate world is quite different from the personal world and there are many things that are ‘alright’, which are not alright in the personal world and vice versa. Therefore, being honest is the key point answering these questions.

3. Judgmental about you
You might be chewing your nails about finding good answer to a question about being divorced within three weeks of marriage, while one of your soon-to-be colleagues barges in and breaks down telling about her marriage, which she broke two weeks before the nuptials. Of course, this scenario is a wee bit blatant, but it just goes to show that you are in trying to walk into a new world and work with a different, new kind of people, and you should not be judgmental about yourself, before they even have a chance to be judgmental about you.

4. Taking responsibility
You should remember that you are handling the interview as an adult and you should take responsibilities for anything wrong that happened, but should be intelligent enough to inform them about any aspects of the happening that was out of your hands.  For example, if you were hauled up for drunk driving, it would be your mistake, but if the judge was a wee bit too harsh on you on your first drunk driving mistake, that would be out of your hands.

Conclusion – how to handle tough interview questions

“Tell about yourself” – It is perfectly alright to tell your interviewer that you felt that your previous job was not up to your expectations, or that you left the last job because you found it too difficult to live alone, cook and work two thousand miles away from home. However, make sure that you do not come across to them as a cry baby who is creating these kinds of scenarios just to get an increase of the sympathy meter.

These are just vague examples of how you should counter any awkward questions that might be asked of you during the interview. There might be several different questions, depending from instance to instance and person to person, that might be asked of you.