Friday, 30th September
Escaping from tricky questions
If many of you have already experienced an interview for a job, you will all have to face a sadistic recruiter who will try to test you and to know about the secrets you try to hide.
Of course, he will began with checking your skills by reading your wonderful C.V. taped with Microsoft Word or Openoffice softwares, which will give him a first impression of your personality according to his values and stereotypes: you were not post-graduated at HEC: is it because you really wanted to learn foreign languages? Or may be were you too lazy to work hard in this competitive and merciless Institute? Or you simply prefer modesty?
This may pique his curiosity. Or maybe not.
In that way, he will try to sound you out on the occasion of an intimidating interview, in order to decide if you will be useful for the company, or not.
So you will be confronted to an amount of terrible, nonsensical tricky questions.
But you will be ready! Let’s see the trickier questions you can get in an interview, and the best way to answer them. Yes, you will be a post-graduate in L.E.A., but a clever one, far craftier than a pretentious student at H.E.C.!
Tricky Question 1: “Admitting that we hire you, our company interests you so much that you give the most of you: which job do you think you will hold in 2031?”
What does that mean actually? It is simply a way to know if you are ambitious or not.
Answering that you don’t know or choosing a humble job means you are cautious and unable to make the company getting ahead. Admittedly, you are honest, but it is not enough in a company.
But if you are ambitious enough, you will get this next bloody tricky question:
Tricky Question 2: “What in your personality makes you think you can get such a position of responsibility?”
This is a terrible question…that means that you have made up a firm and adequate career plan.
If it is not coordinated with the enterprise culture, if it is completely utopian, or if you simply lie because you have never thought about it, leave the room and never come back. But, if you have made up a super program, and assured you will do your best to achieve it, let’s go to the next suffering.
Tricky Question 3: “All right, in that way, you may get this job in 2025 rather than in 2031 in Crocq, a small village in the isolated region of La Creuse. Of course, your agreement is a definitive commitment”.
In case of living in the middle of nowhere fits you, get enthusiastic. If not, because your wife or husband has grown fond of urban smog and noise, never explain that it won’t be possible. A worker is only responsible to his company. Show you are an adult and ready to discover the world!
Tricky Question 4: “It is a good point that you are prepared to travel, because we are looking for young workers for the relocation of our branch in Olkaluluovosikarski in Finland for a 4-years contract. Are you ready to subscribe right now your commitment? If the relocation is successful, we will of course propose you a more interesting project in Vladivostok in Eastern Russia.”
Now, you are completely overwhelmed and you lose your temper. If you answer “yes, of course, I love it, this is exactly my dream!!!”, your recruiter will think you are crazy or you like vodka so much that you are ready to live in an isolated and cold countryside, which is not good for the company’s prestige. But if you are pragmatic, say that you agree for the first contract in Finland, but that you would like to come back in your country of origin after that, which is far more credible.
You get the job, congratulations! Now it is time to talk to your wife or husband and to argue about the benefits of living in Finland! Good luck!
MAILHES Marie
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