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Advice for a job interview

Rach91
3 months ago

Hi today I had a telephone interview to work in a special school for children with autism. They were impressed with me as an adult with autism I feel I could really connect with the pupils. The good news is I have made it through to the second stage which is a face to face interview at the school itself. I’m worried about the questions they might ask for example a nasty question I was asked at a previous interview is why should we hire you? Has anyone got any advice on this? Thanks 

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  • 3 months ago
    Rach91 said:
    I was asked at a previous interview is why should we hire you?

    It is a perfectly reasonable question and one I often asked as an interviewer. What would you answer now?

    Effectively they are asking you to give a summaried version of what you can offer and how it relates to this role.

    Let us know what you think this would be (removing specific details of course) and I'll suggest a re-working of it for you.

    Other questions they may ask will be:

    • Tell us about yourself.
    • How do you deal with pressure or stressful situations?
    • When you’re balancing multiple tasks, how do you keep yourself organized?
    • What are your salary expectations?
    • You mention on your CV that you are autistic. What does this mean for your ability to work in the role.

    It is not practical to memorise responses to these but to think about what they mean and what things you can talk about - reading from memory will seem like you are reading from a script (i.e. bad) whereas assembling an answer from your pre-thought out answers is likely to come across as more genuine.

    I'm happy to work you though some of this if you are up for it. I've spent over 10 years as a manager with regular recruiting requirements in a wide range of companies in case you were wondering about my credentials and have been on numerous in-house recruitment training courses in the civil service amongst others.

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  • 3 months ago
    Rach91 said:
    I was asked at a previous interview is why should we hire you?

    It is a perfectly reasonable question and one I often asked as an interviewer. What would you answer now?

    Effectively they are asking you to give a summaried version of what you can offer and how it relates to this role.

    Let us know what you think this would be (removing specific details of course) and I'll suggest a re-working of it for you.

    Other questions they may ask will be:

    • Tell us about yourself.
    • How do you deal with pressure or stressful situations?
    • When you’re balancing multiple tasks, how do you keep yourself organized?
    • What are your salary expectations?
    • You mention on your CV that you are autistic. What does this mean for your ability to work in the role.

    It is not practical to memorise responses to these but to think about what they mean and what things you can talk about - reading from memory will seem like you are reading from a script (i.e. bad) whereas assembling an answer from your pre-thought out answers is likely to come across as more genuine.

    I'm happy to work you though some of this if you are up for it. I've spent over 10 years as a manager with regular recruiting requirements in a wide range of companies in case you were wondering about my credentials and have been on numerous in-house recruitment training courses in the civil service amongst others.

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