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Given this problem, what solution would
you provide?
Lastly, choose something different within
the new role that you’re eager to improve Your hiring manager may well present you
upon. with a certain scenario to test how well you’d
cope with a particular situation. They’ll want
How do you keep up-to-date with the to analyse whether or not you’d make a good
industry? fit for the company and the existing team of
people that work there. Being able to
This is a crucial question for anyone in the eloquently describe a solution to a role-
ever-changing industry. Whether you scour specific issue not only gives them great
websites and blogs specific to your role, insight into your skills and character; it also
engage in forums or subscribe to consumer enables them to picture how you’d progress
magazines in your field, the hiring manager within their company.
will want to know how you stay abreast of If hired, what challenges do you foresee in
all the current and future trends, this role?
challenges and potential opportunities.
Make sure you’re clued up on the This is a common question that can trip you
essentials up if you aren’t prepared. It’s best answered
with a skill that is currently a work in
Describe a time when you were able to progress for you. Something that you are
improve upon an original ideas. continually improving upon, or an area of
A common question for interviewers. Here, knowledge that you’ve just recently started
you have the chance to prove how you learning more about. Perhaps you’re well
improved upon a flawed design. Whether it versed in one programming language and
was a website, an application or even a less so in another, but due to your speed and
side project, make sure you mention how natural aptitude in abstract thinking and self-
you improved usability for end users and reliance, you’ll pick up the latter with
employers alike to prove your competence accuracy and efficiency.
and reliability to your potential new
employer.
