Let me ask you a question are you a smart capable person? You must be right? That would
be your answer. Ok then I have another question for you, how well do you handle tricky questions?
is your answer still the same, do you still think that you are a smart person ah-haan
I caught you. Answering the tricky questions is where most people get caught especially
for job interviews because that gets you off guard right you don’t even know when they
question you and right there their question is don’t worry it’s not just you we all
face such situations in life and we all gets into situations when we are asked tricky questions
and we have to answer them so that gets really difficult but what should you do the question
is how should you handle tricky questions ?well my answer is first you should not panic
you should relax and second you should keep watching this video because today we are going
to learn how to answer tricky questions which are very difficult to answer but very smartly
, so keep watching my name is Michelle and this is Skillopedia the place to learn skills
for the real world
Trust me on this one sometimes the problem is not with how you understand the question
but with the person asking the question and mostly it’s with the question itself which
means either he has put the question wrongly or maybe he missed out on adding some information.
if you have no idea where to begin a question and you are really confused then there is
a high chance that the person didn’t put their words carefully , so what should you
do then? Well, you should politely ask that person to explain their question to you in
different words, which means to ask for clarification for instance if they ask you the question
where do you see the role that you applied for heading in three years? You would easily
realise that this is a vague question, which means it is not cleared what job role is he
talking about and what will happen to the job role at three years, so you could response
with something like this” That’s a great question but I am not sure where to start
is there any way you could be a bit more specific with that question”. Then they would respond
how do you think the primary responsibilities will change for this job role in the next
three years, which will definitely be easier for you answer and to describe how the job
responsibilities will change in the future. So this way you will be able to ask for clarification
at a time when you feel that you have not understood the question, so ask for clarification
to answer smartly.
If you are asked a question in a job interview which includes a word or a term for which
you don’t know the meaning, what should you do then? How should you tackle it and
how should you proceed Well for this one its best to ask for clarification as I have already
told you, then to answer by guessing the meaning of the word which may, in turn, make you look
like a real fool because in an interview you can’t really try guessing. However mostly
you will be presented with a question which includes a flexible term like a failure and
you can use this term for your own benefit, for instance, suppose that in a job interview
you are asked a question, like describe the last time you failed and made a mistake at
work? That is really tricky and what you did about it? You have to answer this as well,
this can seem like a really tricky question ,however you can take it on yourself to define
field you can use the field for your own benefit so instead of talking about that time you
actually failed to meet an important deadline you can choose to describe the time you failed
to implement a good work and life balance for example when you worked over time for
a week harming your own personal life while benefiting the company, this way the interviewer
will have no opportunity to doubt your dedication into the company and you will use the word
failure for your advantage. So you can use such flexible terms for your personal benefits
to give smart answers to tricky questions.
Do you know that your attitude is sometimes just as important as the actual words that
you use in an interview yes that is true specially when it comes to a job interview, which is
our topic for the day. Yes many job interview questions are specifically asked to test how
much you actually know about your job role or how well will you fit into that job role,
so therefore most interviewers will not expect you to know the answer to every question because
it’s just not practically possible to know the answer to every question, in fact sometimes
the way you tackle the question which means the way you handle the question and your general
attitude speaks volume which mean speaks a lot about you, what I mean here is if you
don’t know the answer and you quickly accept that you don’t have a ready answer to that
question this will surely impress the interviewer must faster than a nervous and half hatred
response. They are quick to understand a nervous behavior, for example, suppose your asked
how would you picture yourself working with the advertising department If you were given
the role of a sales person with a new company? Though you may not have a clue about working
with the advertising department and as a sales person and you don’t know what you would
do you don’t know the real answer in reality but talking with confidence , courage and
enthusiasm about how much you would like to take up challenges and newer opportunities
maybe the once you are not ever familiar with ,this will help you gain brownie points I
can promise you on that because the interviewer will know that you are ready to take up new
challenges and you are not afraid to answer a question that you don’t know the answer
to, so in this case your attitude and your behaviour matter much more than your answer,
so use this strategy to answer smart and tricky questions.
Many a times in a job interview you maybe unlucky enough to be asked an inappropriate
question such as” Are you thinking of taking time out of the workplace to have children
in the near future? It’s can be really hard to know how to response to such a question
or to such a query, however thinking that you still really want the job you might want
to answer this and a sensible approach which mean a sensible attempt to such a question
is to react in a very short manner, just say “No I am not” and then redirect the question
you can take the question to another direction or to another topic for instance to continue
with the whole idea and example that I have shared with you your answer would go as follow
"No I am not as I am really encouraged to use my extensive and great experience in this
field to further my skills in areas for example :- you can give the areas that you can think
of XYZ” for now , so this is how you can redirect a question which you think is inappropriate,
this means that you can lead the topic elsewhere and from your personal life you can lead the
question back to your skills, so this is one more why to answer a tricky question in a
very very smart manner.
So whenever we need to answer a really tricky question, we need to get into a very careful
habit and this habit is to speak in a controlled tone and leaving slight pauses while you speak,
So you should pause and manage your tone which means that you should not sound too loud,
too offensive or just too nervous or too soft. Sometimes a few extra seconds of pauses can
really make a difference to your answer because when you pause you get the opportunity to
actually think about what you are saying , be ,you get the opportunity to recollect of your
thoughts and you can look the examiner in the eye and you can allow yourself to have
a brief moment using that as I said you can collect your thoughts and think of what your
answer would be, so that's the time when you use to recollect your thoughts have a positive
body language and answer. Ok now even though this person doesn't help this point don't
help you answer the question directly but this will definitely help you look more confident
and as I told you your body language and the way you behave in front of the interviewer
is just as important as the words, sometimes you may not have just the correct answer but
the way you appear and your confidence makes you appear really strong and confident. So
be strong and look her in the eyes, take some pauses and answer a smart question in a very
tricky way.
Many a times during an interview you can actually choose to answer a question back with a question,
yes you heard it right. If the interviewer ask you a question you could also ask him
a question back that’s absolutely correct, but you should only do this if it’s a really
tricky question because if you turn the tables on your questioner it can encourage a really
healthy discussion and sometimes maybe the interviewer even forgets to ask you the answer
to the first question that he asked you which you were not able to answer ok now net me
give you a real-life situation for example-A child ask his parent are you getting divorced
,now that would be a very awkward situation and it would be very difficult for the parent
to answer this question but by answering this very smartly the parent can divert the child’s
attentions they could say why are you asking this? so this way they can easily divert and
distract the child completely and the same way when you are in an interview if the interviewer
ask you inappropriate question or if he ask you for an opinion on a topic which you are
not able to answer so in that case you could ask him back “what’s your opinion on this?
And it’s very nice if you could add the phrase "If I may ask what your opinion on
this" by adding this phrase" If I may ask you” you will sound even more polite and
gentle to the interviewer.
When you are in your job interview even if you fell as though you’re answer to someone’s
question isn’t quite what they were hoping for , a good strategy would be to end your
answer with a positive statement or a fact that actually encourages them to ask you follow
up questions that you can answer obviously more readily and more easily for example suppose
you’re asked in a job interview “why you are leaving your previous job role with another
company “?now that’s very tricky ending your response you could answer I have heard
many good things about the upcoming sale sales figure of your company at this quarter and
wanted to move to a more prestige's organization then my previous one so this one provides
the answer on a positive note, upon which you can move to the next question. So this
way you can actually end that question on a very positive note and always remember to
end it with a smile and with confidence, so make sure whatever question you answer with
you know the answer or not you must answer it with a positive approach and with complimenting
the interviewer and his organization.
Whatever be the question remember to always end with
a smile and a positive statement whenever possible preferable one that shows how great
your attitude is toward your previous company and even the company that you are trying to
enter into, And keep breathing keep smiling stay steady and be strong and also remember
not to beat yourself up if you are not able to get it right we all make mistakes and it’s
always good to get better.
so thank you for watching this section with me I hope you have learned a lot about how
to answer a tricky question in a smart way, so all the best for your next job interview
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