Interviews are an important part of any job selection process. You might follow all the great interview tips but how good your responses are to interview questions you are asked, will determine if you will be hired or not.

Luckily passing an interview does not need to be rocket science. For most typical interview questions, there is no right or wrong answers. With adequate preparation you can provide the right answer to any of these questions.

We have therefore put together this huge list of the tough top interview questions you are likely to be asked at any interview and provided the best way to respond to each of them.

Why Should I Hire You or What Can You Offer Us That Someone Else Can’t?

There’s an apparent answer to this question, and that is that you’re the best for the job. However, you need to back up this answer with salient points that differentiate you with the rest that are applying for the same job.

But how do you do this? Take a look at the specification of the job and look deep to get an example of a situation where you excelled or simply add value to the job or the project at hand.

Another way to do this is to speak passionately about your achievements while bearing in mind that all you say must be related to the job you’re running for.

What Are Your Weaknesses?

Often times, candidates/applicants fall into the error of saying they have no weaknesses. This is a NO NO!!! And believe me; the interviewer has heard it all before.

This is when you want to think of the weaknesses you’re actively working on overcoming and you should be able to present to the interviewer how you’re working on it.

This is not when you want to project laziness as a weakness or a poor sickness record; no organization want to hire such persons.

Also, you can give your knowledge gap in the role you’re interviewing for as a weakness and how you’re seriously working on developing the skill set to cover the gap.

Why Do You Want To Leave Your Current Job or Why Are You Looking For A New Job?

One mistake applicants make when answering this question is to speak ill of their present company or totally disrespect their current boss. This is very wrong!

This is an opportunity to project what you’ve learnt from your current job and how you can add value to the prospective job role. Tell the interviewer how ambitious you are and how your present employment does not give you enough opportunity to fully express your ambition. Tell the interviewer that you believe and know that his/her organization would give you the playing ground you so much desire.

What Are Your Strengths?

This is by no means an easy question and a lot of job seekers will fail at this point. Most candidates fail not because of lack of what to say but for the lack of the accurate thing to say. As recruiters, we are basically giving you an opportunity to shove it in our face and tell us how awesome you are without being vain about it. The best answer is when you are able to demonstrate how you used this skill to carry out a task or perform a job role. Therefore when answering this question, look for skills that fit with your present role or talk about specific example of where you were able to get a notable appreciation for using this skill in your job. A good example should be when I have a deadline; I do all I can to keep to it.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years?

This is a tricky question and how you answer it will depend on how well you understand your self and your career goals. And this is usually one of the reasons why it is important to have a career goal. 5 or 10 years might seems like a long time and really no one cares. What the interviewer want to know if you have defined your career path and know what you want to be. This is not the time to tell them you want to be the MD of the company. Your interviewer might just be the MD and he won’t look favorable to employing someone ready to take his job from him.

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