Why?

The questions that you will be facing gets trickier as you rise in post. It would no longer remain in the domain of simple ones such as, what are your strengths and weakness or rate yourself in the scale of one to ten etc.

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Here are some tricky questions you can expect in a managerial interview:

1. Evaluate your present firm.

As simple as it looks, your answer to it will put you in a spot anyways.

Let us say you decide to praise your last company, be prepared to answer the next obvious question: "Why would you then want to leave such an amazing company?"

Or you went to the other extreme and denounce your last organisation, there is a fair chance that you are actually closing your chances than making any headway.

Why?

The impression that's being created in the interviewer's mind is, if you are bad mouthing your current company, what are the chances that if recruited you won't do it again!

The Right Answer: Your best bet to get out of this sticky situation is to be honest but in a diplomatic way.

Do not give a laundry list of the firm but don't take the other extreme of making the company look like heaven either.

Tell them certain basic points that made working in the present firm an enjoyable and satisfactory term for you. And then follow it up by saying that you seek to broaden your horizons or found that your goals have changed which is why you decided to take the step of looking for a new offer.

Remember to keep the evaluation in relation to your work experience and not how the company fared in general terms.

2. Why haven't you found a new position before now?

Through this question the interviewer is trying to gauge if you have been to other interviews and do you have anymore offers in hand.

In other words how serious are you about getting a better job and landing a job in the concerned company.

The Right Answer: Honesty is good, but being honest to the point of being blunt is a bad move. That means do not list the number interviews so far attended or in the offing.

The point is to make the interviewer realise that finding a job is easy but finding the right one is tough. Stress that you are being selective and that you are looking out for the right one to come along.

If need be mention that you have attended few interviews. However, do not divulge any numbers here.

3. You seem over qualified. Why do you want this job?

More often than not this question is asked if you are too young for the post or in the older age bracket.

It could also be that the interviewer may feel intimidated by your accomplishments and therefore trying to find how serious you are of committing to the concerned post.

The Right Answer: Begin by emphasising the fact that to build a strong team or company requires skilled and talented people.

Then go on to emphasise that you intend to have a long term association with this company and utilise your skills to make the company get better and faster returns because you have extra experience.

4. What do you look for when you hire people?

This is an expected question if you happen to be interviewed for the post of a team leader. Since you are the one who will head the team the interviewer expects to see if you are biased or truly a leader.

For example, say you are skilled in multitasking and if you answer that you would recruit multitaskers, that would show the bias in your attitude and that you are rigid in your ideas and working style.

The Right Answer: No two employees are the same. Each person brings with him/herself their own unique set of talents and skills.

It is up to the head to bring the multi talents under one umbrella and channel their resources for a common a result. So while answering this question, remember to emphasise more on the person's adaptability, willingness and initiative to work and of course - skills.