hello there my name is Richard McMunn
from the interview training company past
my interview comm and in this tutorial
I'm gonna teach you how to answer
personality interview questions now
these kind of questions are becoming
more common during interviews and they
are designed to assess your attitude and
motivations for work and also whether or
not you will fit into a team within an
organization so if you have any kind of
interview coming up I strongly recommend
you watch this from beginning to end
because there is a chance you will get
asked a number of personality interview
questions during your interview now
before I get into those a very warm
welcome to this interview training
tutorial my name is Richard McMunn
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chap and I've been helping people for
about twenty years now to pass
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are personality interview questions what
are they well personality interview
questions they're becoming increasingly
more popular and common during
interviews and they're used as a way to
assess how you are likely to perform in
specific situations now they are
predominantly used to assess your
personality type and also to determine
whether or not your attitude and
motivations are suited to the role that
you're being interviewed for now upon
first inspection when you see a
personality interview question it seems
really easy to answer however if you say
the wrong thing you're not getting the
job so let's start taking a look at a
few examples of my personality interview
questions but I want you to prepare for
here we go question number one
your manager asks you to complete a task
but you think it's impossible to achieve
what would you do and what would you
say let me repeat that your manager asks
you to complete the task but you think
it's impossible to achieve what would
you do and say so this is assessing your
personality type in respect to whether
you are determine you're enthusiastic
with each task so some people might be
you know thinking about how they respond
to this and say well I would approach my
manager in a polite way and say we
really can't do that this is not the
answer you need to give here's the
answer you've got to give for this
question I would just go ahead do the
task to the best of my ability I believe
if you start off with a negative mindset
of I can't do this then you're already
setting yourself up to fail if you go
ahead with a task with the right mindset
and you use all of the resources and the
people within your team that are
available you can achieve anything so
that's the right answer to that question
because they're looking to assess
whether you're positive whether you're
determined and you'll give things a go
anyway so you'll see that that is that
that answer is positive in nature that's
what they are looking for from the
question your manager asks you to
complete something but you think it's
impossible what would you do and what
would you say next personality interview
question this is a difficult one if you
could change one thing about your
personality what would it be so we don't
want to be saying things like well I
don't like working with other people and
spend too much time on the computer or
you know I have a short fuse and I
become angry quite quickly we don't say
anything like that we have to be careful
with what we say in respect to this
answer so if you could change one thing
about your personality what would it be
this is what I would say to this
question overall I'm quite happy with my
personality and the positive mindset
that I have however if I had to choose
one thing that I had to change it would
probably be the fact that I'm too
friendly at times in the past this is
sometimes led to people taking advantage
I think the right balance will be to
still maintain my friendly nature but I
also need to learn when to say no if I
feel uncomfortable with a particular
situation or scenario that's a safe
answer it's a safe answer and because
everyone likes people who are friendly
but obviously as you and I know if
you're too friendly sometimes people
might take a
Vantage let's take a look at another
difficult personality interview question
how do you view change do you like
change or are you more of a if you ain't
broke don't fix it type of person now
the majority of people are exactly that
they think well if it isn't broke why
should we fix it but that's no good as
an employee the hiring manager is
looking for you to embrace change
positively because we live in a modern
world where change happens all of the
time and if an organization is to
succeed in the future it needs to change
all the time and it needs people like
you to embrace it here's my great answer
to this question in my opinion change is
something that's really positive and I
think we should all embrace it
positively in order for a business or
organization to succeed especially in
the modern world where things change all
of the time I think it's imperative to
have staff who embrace change with a
positive attitude also if you've been in
a job for a long time change is actually
a very much welcomed entity because it
makes your job feel fresh in you and it
also allows you to learn new skills and
maintain a varied working day that is
the right answer to that personality
interview question based on change now
I've got some more to run through so
please don't go anywhere but if you do
want to download my full set of 20
personality interview questions and
answers you can click that link there in
the top right hand corner and it'll take
you through to my website pass my
interview where you can download those
it's a look at another one describe a
time when you missed an important
deadline at work this is a tricky
question describe a time when you missed
an important deadline at work don't get
caught out by this don't get caught out
here's my answer to be honest I have
never missed an important deadline at
work I am naturally an organized person
who all these plans meticulously for all
tasks I will always think ahead to make
sure I have the resources and expertise
to complete the task properly whilst
also thinking about any potential
barriers that might come up that would
prevent me from meeting a deadline now
whilst I do believe I'm very good at
completing projects and tasks on time
I'm certainly not naive and I will
always plan to make sure things get done
to the
standard and to the specification
required so some people will say oh yeah
I've missed quite a few deadlines before
it's not what you want to be saying okay
next question what irritates you the
most at work tricky question because we
all get irritated by things so what
irritates you most at work here would be
my answer to this personality interview
question I don't get irritated that much
at work to be honest however if I had to
choose one thing that is most likely to
irritate me it would be when I'm waiting
for external suppliers people or
stakeholders to come back to me
especially when the completion of my own
project or task is dependent on their
response having said that over the years
I've become really good at putting
pressure on people in a polite way
in order to persuade them to come back
to me quickly so I can then move on and
complete my own project or task quickly
and effectively that's the correct
answer to that personality interview
question so let's take a look at some
more now and if you want the full lot
and I'll go through these in a second
with twenty personality interview
questions there's a link below the video
you can click that and it'll take you
through right to my page here on past my
interview comm so twenty personality
interview questions and answers so I've
got them here and the ones I've put up
I've been through the first five of ones
would you prefer to work as part of a
team or alone and are you more likely to
look at the bigger picture or do you
prefer to focus on detail which would
you regret the most a mistake you made
or not having given something a try tell
me about the time and your supervisor or
manager was not happy with the work
you'd completely what motivates you
what's the best idea you've ever come up
at work I've giving you answers to all
of these what do you dislike doing the
most at work what three objectives
describe you best you're working as part
of a large team or one individual
irritates you what you do which leader
is your biggest inspiration I've given
you a great leader in the answer what
are your two biggest successes one
personal and one professional what's the
most useful criticism you've ever
received what hobbies or activities do
you do what's your favorite quote and
why so I've given you answers to all of
those personality interview questions I
can say they've been used a lot now join
interviews so make sure
prepare for them hope you've enjoyed
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