Now what i want to do is i actually want to run through these very quickly
but there are 11 different buckets uh kind of so those are the formats behavioral project
and situational but there's buckets of question types that generally fall in certain what i would
call categories of questioning i think there's 11 give or take we can we can you know we can quibble
about whether there's 10 or 12 or 15 but generally speaking you're going to get questions that fall
into these groupings and what i want to do with these groupings is i want to give you ideas of
how to think about what it is to say all right now the first one i call these the out of the gators
but basically some of the first questions you should get in an interview are why are you open
to leaving your current job why did you leave your current job why are you looking those kinds of
things why do you want to come here why us right so why are you open to moving why did you choose
us or why would you what value can you bring and how will you benefit now these you got to have
ready now one of the things that i want to show you is we've been giving this away every single
day so i'm not going to spend a lot of time with the tactics i just want you to be ready these are
standard operating procedure and should be asked in some format by every employer they ask these
they that's a good sign right they they should want to know this and you should be ready to do
this and if you if you haven't grabbed this yet i have this booklet that we've been giving away
for six years that i created and i formatted my 14 favorite uh job interview questions but what
i what i did is i put the the question up in the blue section i showed you some alternate versions
on the left i i taught you about what the employer was evaluating and then i talked a little bit more
about the philosophy and then i gave you some sample responses so you can see some of these
out of the gators that i just talked about if you grab this booklet this booklet is free
and so you can grab it stacy's pinned it in the in the chat if you if you if you're interested in
this you can grab that free booklet because i've taken a chapter out of my interview intervention
book it's my silver bullet interview chapter where i identified the 14 most effective job interview
questions that you can be asked 43 variations of those questions as you could saw the alternate
versions what the employer is evaluating why why basically why they're asking it and some
of the best ways to approach it and example responses now that's a chapter that i peeled
out of my interview intervention book and i'm giving giving that away for free if you want the
interview intervention book the whole book we have a book package where you can grab the hardcover
the thirty dollar hardcover is is seven dollars you get the thirty dollar hardcover you get the
nine dollar ebook you get the audio book that's not even for sale and you get a bunch of other
bonuses with it too so you could go that route if you want to chip in a few bucks maybe stacy
can drop somebody's already dropped that uh oh actually stacey could you drop the interview book
uh offer the free book offer for seven seven bucks uh you know don't don't laugh at that expression
but basically i'm looking to recover some of the fees for the services the envelopes and wherever
but i'll send it to you anywhere you want in the world but gotta know the odd of the gators now
there's a couple of other out of the gators that employers love to ask you i call them the lazy too
because it requires no thought on their part they're turning over control of the interview
to you it isn't a great way for them to run an interview because it leaves you to your
own devices to talk about whatever you want to talk about and the goal of the interviewer is to
get information to that they need to ascertain in order to make a determination about whether
you are a good fit for their company or not if you're wandering all over the place when they
ask you things like tell me about yourself or walk me through your resume the one thing
that i want to say about these two types of questions that i want you to be ready for are
number one a great place to start is on the first session of this free workshop where i talked about
how to introduce yourself i also have a video on each of these on my youtube channel tell me about
yourself the best response for that and walk me through your resume the best response for that you
can go watch those if you'd like but the one point i want to make about this is when you are walking
them through you you want to make sure you are emphasizing their gaps and their problems and how
you would solve them the fact that you have solved them the fact that you can solve them the fact
that you love solving them the fact that you wake up you go to sleep at night thinking about their
problems you wake up thinking about those problems all day long you solve those problems that's the
way you want to tell these stories so i've given you the exact scripts for these two as well
those are the early ones now there's another one that i i don't i don't love where
they ask you to look into the future and they want you to play nostradamus you know what where
do you see yourself in five years what's the first act you will perform when you get here
what will be your greatest accomplishment if you worked here what would be your greatest
accomplishment in three years and they're asking you to project into the future now the first
act is about what you know about their problem and what's going to give them the greatest roi
immediately that's what you want to concentrate on so whatever their problems are that you notice
you'd say i would dive right in and focus on this when you look at the five-year question
i've put a video out there wouldn't you know on my youtube channel and the thing that you
want to stress in the five-year question is about the trajectory that you will be on
most people fall victim to this question because the question is designed with the where word
in it where do you see yourself in five years which in which implies that they're looking
for an answer as a spot and a moment in time and what you naturally want to do
is you you tend to to want to focus at a moment in time in the future about what you'll be called
or what you'll be doing specifically i expect that i would be a senior system engineer by then
i would expect so that's not the way to go about it big mistake what you want to talk about is
is think about the trajectory and who you want to be in five years in five years i would imagine
i would be somebody who's focusing on building large this supporting you in that and talk about
what it is you'll be doing in relation to who it is you will be at that time not what you will be
called or what function you'll have talk in general capacities i've got a whole video out
on my youtube channel about this i even lay it out i lay out a script for you too so there's the
nostradamus questions i want you to go into the future you got to be ready with those then you've
often got the conflicts right how would you handle a disagreement with a coworker well tell me about
a time when you satisfied a difficult teammate a difficult customer a demanding boss or whatever
and in these situations the inclination is for you to immediately start telling a story about
how you how you influence somebody to see your way that's not what i want you to do the first thing
you want to stress here in these situations is you want to talk about your philosophy
and your philosophy is i'm open-minded so whenever i have a disagreement with somebody i'm ultimately
wondering maybe they're seeing something that i don't maybe they know something i don't i the
only way for me to grow as an individual would be to listen to the views of others learn from them
and then see what their viewpoint is and try to try to evaluate it from their vantage point
and then so be open-minded then i would listen to what they had to say then my first inclination
will be why does it have to be either or is there a way as teammates we could make it
better generally when you disagree with a teammate uh it's it's usually about an approach that you
want to use to solve a goal that happens in 90 of the cases and that's where most disagreements
occur it's just like accidents that happen within one mile of the house most disagreements at work
happen to be with co-workers about the approach that you want to take so whenever that happens i
always look for is there an and option instead of an or option so there was this time when
so you always you want to make sure especially when it's a negative question like this
that you're giving them your philosophy about what a well-adjusted human being you are okay so
the conflicts ones those that's number four then number five is general vague random organization
questions tell me about a time when you organize something tell me about a time when you brought
order out of chaos i hate these questions they're silly but no matter what you respond to if you
have to pull an example out of the sky first order businesses you want to try to organize
and show them you brought order from chaos to a problem that what is related to what they do
but no matter who you are no matter what level you are if you get a question like this and even
if you don't get a question like this so the junior people are going to get vague questions
that say tell me about a time you organize something the senior people aren't going to get a
question like that they're going to get a question like how are you going to build the sales team
how are you going to piece together the marketing team that's still an organization question so you
want to make sure that you're talking in sequences and and you're laying out certain pillars that go
along with organizing something what are they so for example maybe you're a college student
and you don't i haven't organized anything right i do my school assignments or i'm a junior you
know i'm 25 years old i'm a junior engineer and i'm constantly organizing it but i don't really
think about it and reverse engineer in a manner that i'm going to answer a question that way
well it's you always want to start with oh well i organized this problem i organized this issue
just like i would organize any issue the first part of organization is inventorying what needs to
be organized number one second thing is in order to organize it you need to assemble or prioritize
it right okay that's conceptually what you would do in order to prioritize it you need what
prioritization criteria what takes precedent what's more important so i i figure out what
the criteria is then based on what i'm going to inventory based on what the criteria is
then i go into organization mode i place it where it goes i sequence it where it goes i
troubleshoot it the way it should be or whatever and then i actually lay it out
right i blueprint it and then what and then i do it there it is and organization that's what
you do those four steps right i have a playbook a la yesterday's lesson for organizing anything
right so so that's ultimately what you want to say so whatever example it is that you give if you if
you give them the pillars you'll be okay all right that's number five number six negative nellie's
anything you would not do tell me about a weakness blah blah blah blah blah okay
anything i wouldn't do with the if if they if they you actually get this question
your automatic response is i would not do anything illegal okay that's the answer to
that one uh anything else that's negative you always want to do it by omission well
i wouldn't want to work for a company that didn't do this kind of thing all right
so every time you get pinned into a corner and they ask you something negative never make them
errors of commission you want them to be heirs of omission i have yet to do that this is something
i it's a weakness because i've yet to get enough experience in implementing this
get the idea oh missions first and i want to carry the omissions concept through a number of these
what would you miss about your current company job so on and so forth what you don't want to do
is you don't want to pick anything that they could be missing themselves meaning your future employer
so you always want to pick the one-of-a-kinds what's a one-of-a-kind
people i'm going to miss the people right because my people over there are not going
to be working over there no one takes offense to that right i might miss my customers that
i've been spending a lot of time servicing they're really great people they invite me
to the family parties those kind of things you want to miss the one-of-a-kinds where you run zero
zero risk that that employer has a gap because if you're gonna miss something that that employer
cannot satiate that's really bad you're gonna lose points okay one-of-a-kinds and then number eight
any regrets okay i did this a while ago regrets i love we're the millers and i i love that joke
about you know don't you have any regrets and the guy's got regrets tattooed across his chest
and he's got regrets spelled with an a and uh it's not even one letter so i always think about what
i think about regrets it's take backs do-overs is there anything you wish you did not do again the
big o omission so you do not regret actually this is a life lesson here you do not regret
anything you've done in your life you're gonna regret things you didn't do i wish i would have
i wish i would have contacted you sooner that's my regret right i wish i i would
have get comfortable with that so if you have any regrets you want to make it a regret of omission
something you did not do that you wish you would have done you wish you would have done
sooner you wish you would have taken a chance you wish you would have done something you did not do
and now you know you're going to do it kind of thing all right so those are the regrets number
eight number nine the deal breakers any reason you would not take this job omissions again
i would not take this job if i felt that the cust that the company was not obsessed with customer
service i would not take this job if i didn't feel like the team was committed to right making this a
world-class organization or get get getting to be the number one uh leader in the market or whatever
it's omissions any reason you wouldn't take the job it's positive for you right you turned a
negative question into a positive meaning i'm so customer service focused that if i find out you're
not then i'm not joining okay something like that you don't want to go down the path of well you
know if you lied to me or oh if if i get in and all of a sudden you change the job description on
me stay away from all that stuff okay then you got the the failures tell me about the biggest mistake
you made tell me about when something went wrong tell me about a time you you know epically failed
all they're looking for is it's okay to talk about a mistake they're not looking for have
you never made a mistake we all make a mistake i make mistakes every day literally every day
every day and so they're just looking for do you have a good attitude do you have a good outlook
and what are you going to look forward to that you that something new has come out of the mistake
so you want the mistake to be valuable and there's a lesson in it so there was this time
when so anytime i i i'm a fan of failure right i know that failure is a sign that i gave it a
go if i made a mistake or something went wrong then i'm going to learn from it i think that's
great the only way to actually get better is click cliche as it sounds you got to get out of
your comfort zone when you do that or when you try new things you're gonna break stuff okay so when i
when i approach things that way i always remember life happens for me not to me i always try i
would rather i would rather be aggressive i would rather take chances i would rather try new things
and when they don't work out we look at what went wrong we fix it we learn from it and so on so all
all you're doing is is you want to make sure you have a great attitude in the way in which you tell
us i do have videos on this one too on the on the youtube channel and then what i called you know
not nearly's sophie choice but things like would you rather work for yourself or in a team
or a cup you know or do you pref you know would you would you prioritize your customer over your
teammates or something like that whenever you get into these situations turn their or question into
an and question first thing i would do is i would look for is there a way that i can satisfy both
that's my first inclination i don't believe that i automatically have to give up one or the other
yes i understand that there's limited times in the day but so whenever you're given an or situation
first inclination is i want to turn it into an and not an or all right so when you think about these
11 groupings you want to make sure that you are that you were thinking of them in those terms
you