Enhancing Youth Employability through Skill Development

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Tell me about yourself.

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Share about your

  • educational background
  • extra-curricular activities
  • family background
  • some hobbies

Experience

Tell me about your educational background.

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Experience

Share your Educational Attainment including hobbies, school, advocacies, etc. Andrelate these skills or experiences acquired to the job that you are applying for.

Experience

What have you learned from your experiences in school?

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Experience

Discuss your academic experience, particularly

  • Hard skills (specific technical skills, programming languages, etc.)
  • Soft skills (communication skills, leadership, problem solving, etc.)
  • Experience in school particularly your role and contribution
  • Affiliationsoutside school (if it applies)

Experience

What was your biggest challenge as a student, and how did you handle it?

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Experience

Share a situation that challenged you and provide the appropriate actions you took and its result(s).

Experience

What is your greatest accomplishment and how were you able to achieve it?

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Experience

Speak about the recognitions awarded to you. You may also discuss

  • How you were able to overcome difficulties and your personal wins
  • Experiences that made you feel proud like volunteering to causes, competitions, researches, etc.

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What is your ideal job?

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Discuss your ideal job, make sure it is vertically aligned with your degree. You may state

  • an ideal salary range
  • Expected benefits that promotes career and personal development and hones your passion.

Attitude

What would make you leave from an organization?

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Attitude

  • Think about discrimination, power-tripping, workplace culture, salary and benefits, and work proximity.
  • You may also share about leaving for career growth.
  • Anything bad or issues about your former company should be cautiously disclosed unless questioned.

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What do you know about this organization?

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  • Before going to the interview make sure that you know the company’s vision and mission, and goals and the services it offers.
  • State how the goals of the company could be aligned with your interests and career objectives.

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Why do you want to work for this organization?

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  • Discuss about the reason or what made you eager to apply to that organization.
  • Talk about what motivated you to apply for the job like salary, perks, benefits, career association and workplace proximity.
  • Talk about the kind of work culture, type of administration, management and mentorship, and possible career path that the organization can offer.

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What made you interested to apply for this position?

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State how the job qualifications align to your

  • educational attainment
  • interests
  • passion

Skills

What can you offer to this organization?

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Skills

  • Express the skills, talents, and leadership that you can offer to the organization
  • Discuss about the relevant job experiences that you believe can contribute to the organization

Skills

What is your greatest strength?

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Skills

Enumerate your strengths and look for a scenario where and when you best applied it and end-result(s).

Skills

What are your weaknesses and how do you overcome it?

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Skills

  • Share briefly about the skills that you are not that good at
  • Focus on discussing how you are able to overcome your weaknesses and turn it to a learning experience.

Skills

How would you assess your communication skills?

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Skills

You may gauge your proficiency and share the language(s) you are confident to converse.

Attitude

How would your friends or professors describe you?

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Attitude

Share about how others how others appreciate your work ethic, your personality, skills, and traits that can help you boosts your image.

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What are your career goals?

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  • Discuss your career plans and personal aspirations
  • You may also share your intention in pursuing a higher degree.

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Describe your work ethics.

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  • You may describe how efficient you are in doing a task, your professionalism, organizational skills, and teamwork.
  • Capitalize on your strengths, your openness to diversity, cooperation, and dependability.

Attitude

What is more important to you? Creativity or efficiency?

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Attitude

Choose the best answer that fits your work ethic and provide concrete example(s) to support your claim.

Skills

How do you manage your time?

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Skills

  • Share examples of personal strategies on effective time management, highlight on how effective these strategies in boosting your efficiency and productivity.
  • You may apply The Pomodoro Effect or The Eisenhower Box to manage urgent tasks and those that needs proper delegation

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What is your definition of success?

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  • State your perception on how you envision success.
  • Discuss your vision for yourself including your potential accomplishments in 5 years’ time.

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What qualities do you think a successful person should have?

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  • You may describe the characteristics that you believe a successful person possesses.
  • You may cite their leadership, positive influence, gratitude, wisdom, charisma, persistence, and integrity to name a few.

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What motivates you to do your best?

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Attitude

  • Discuss what ignites your motivation to perform the job accordingly (nurturing work environment, supportive co-workers, family, friends, etc.).
  • You may also mention compensation, incentives, and perks and remuneration.

Experience

Tell me about the biggest risk you’ve done in your life.

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Experience

You may share about your personal, academic or work experiences that challenged you to go beyond expectations.

Attitude

Are you willing to put the interests of the organization ahead of your own?

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If in any case that there would be persistent risks, share your willingness to compromise; highlight that the company’s interest must be paramount.

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How do you handle work pressure?

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You can enumerate your personal strategies or share an experience where you have handled a work pressure well.

Experience

Give me an example where you handled a major crisis. How did you respond?

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Experience

  • Share a scenario with appropriate actions conducted to resolve the crisis, and highlight the end result(s).
  • You may share the insights/ learning from the experience you had on the crisis

Experience

Explain a way in which you sought to use a creative solution to solve a problem?

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Experience

Share examples of relevant experiences where you contributed innovations and solutions to fix a problem.

Experience

Tell me about a mistake you did or a failure you’ve experienced and what did you learn from it?

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Experience

Share a scenario with appropriate actions conducted to resolve the crisis, and highlight the end result(s). It is best to expound on the knowledge and experience gained from the scenario.

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Are you willing to work overtime, until night, and on the weekends?

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You may bargain your preferred schedule based on the available work schedule.

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Are you willing to relocate for this job?

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Share your willingness to compromise; try to calculate the new work proximity and fare to your compensation.

Attitude

What kind of company culture are you comfortable with?

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You may express significant points where you can grow as a leader and a team player, and your openness to be mentored by the institution

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How quick do you adapt to new environments?

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Attitude

Cite specific scenarios about adjusting and appropriate method. Share examples to explain the extent of your flexibility in work arrangements

Experience

Give me an example of a time in which you handled multiple deadlines.

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Experience

Briefly share experiences on your work or academic requirements, and management strategies that made you deliver it.

Attitude

Are you the type of person who likes to work individually or with a team?

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Attitude

Answer it based on which scenario you could best maximize yourself; being a team player would always be commendable.

Experience

Tell me about an experience where you explained a concept to classmate or a co-worker.

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Experience

You may share a scenario where you explained a concept using work related concepts or technicalities that can be easily applied.

Experience

Describe an experience you’ve had as a team or project leader.

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Experience

  • Share an experience and the actions you took along with its result.
  • Highlight the knowledge and skills you learned as a leader from that experience

Experience

Tell me about your internship experience.

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Experience

You may highlight relevant and significant exposures, challenges, and knowledge gained from your internship experience.

Experience

Tell me about the experience where you worked with a team.

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Experience

  • Share an experience and the actions you took along with its result.
  • Enumerate some challenges and victories shared and faced by the team; add the knowledge and skills you gained.

Attitude

What kind of person would you refuse to work with?

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Attitude

  • Think about discrimination, power-tripping, workplace culture, and other similar traits.
  • Anything bad or issues about the person(s) should be cautiously disclosed unless questioned.

Attitude

What do you look for in a boss?

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Attitude

  • State your perception on what you look for in a boss (Someone who possesses effective leadership; compassionate and listens to its member/employee; approachable, etc.)
  • Discuss how your skills will complement your ideal type of boss.

Attitude

What would you do if you disagreed with your boss’ direction?

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Attitude

You may assert the situation, bargain your stand points, and compromise or meet half-way with your boss. Always assure constant communication with your team or boss

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What are your salary expectations?

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Answer based on your credentials including your work experiences, educational attainment, and certification(s) if any

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How long do you intend to stay in this job?

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You may say that as long as there is career growth and personal development, tenure is possible.

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Where do you see yourself in five years?

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Share about your career development plans including your continuous contribution to the company, and personal aspirations, and financial growth

Skills

What can you offer us that other candidates cannot?

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Skills

You may highlight your strengths, passion, and advocacies that can be responsive to the goals and vision of the company

Skills

Why should we not hire you?

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Skills

Assess if someone seems more eligible to the job and try to weigh-in if the qualifications do not match with the credentials. Be honest but do not speak negatively about yourself

Skills

What can you offer as a fresh graduate?

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Skills

You may emphasize that as a fresh graduate, you can offer fresh ideas and concepts, as well as new strategies for their work routine, or contribute to the innovation and success of the company.

Experience

How would you compensate for your lack of experience?

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Experience

  • Highlight your eagerness to learn and your openness for mentoring.
  • Share your willingness to adapt and provide examples on how you could best maximize your sense of versatility especially for collaboration.

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In case you are not selected for this position, what will be your next steps?

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You may discuss discreetly that you are looking for other potential work that maximizes career fit opportunities.

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Do you have any questions for me?

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  • You may ask for clarifications if any; ask how the present culture in the company is like; Do not forget that questions you will ask must only be related to work.
  • You may also ask about the challenging aspect of the job and what success look like in the position you are applying for, as well as the success indicators.
  • To manage your expectations for the role, you may also ask about your potential on the job, is your resume and achievements fit to qualify for the job or role expected.
  • Just be polite and be open to take the opinions, critique or criticisms constructively.

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