| Here's some ideas of how to answer job interview | | | | use to their organization. |
| questions about your past education, whether it be | | | | This question is followed by a model answer and a |
| school or industry related training. Your interviewer will | | | | quick analysis of what makes that answer a success. |
| want to know if you have the skills and ability to | | | | Job Interview Question: |
| complete the work, so giving the best and most | | | | If someone who had just finished school asked you |
| appropriate interview answers is crucial to landing the | | | | whether they should go into employment or carry on |
| job. | | | | with education, how would you advise them? |
| Your education, to whatever level you have taken it - | | | | Job Interview Answer: |
| high school, degrees, or professional qualifications - is | | | | I would really like to find out more about their own |
| always something that employers are interested in and | | | | ideas before giving advice, but if I were put on the spot |
| will ask about. Their depth of interest is determined by | | | | I think I would advise them to carry on with education. |
| how recent and how relevant your education is to the | | | | Despite the difficulties of financing your studies and the |
| position for which you are applying. | | | | competitive graduate job market (even with all the job |
| If you are fairly new to employment, just out of school | | | | search and job listing services), I feel I have learned so |
| or college, questions about your education are likely to | | | | much, particularly about taking responsibility for myself |
| form a substantial part of the interview. Potential | | | | and about working with very different groups of |
| employers will want to know something about your | | | | people. |
| education - something more than the factual | | | | These are real gains that I believe gave me a good |
| information you have provided on your resume or | | | | start in my career. People often promise themselves |
| application form. | | | | that they will go back and complete their education |
| - Why did you choose the subject/course/university or | | | | later on, but I saw how hard this was for some of the |
| college that you attended? | | | | students on my course. |
| - What were you good at and what did you find more | | | | Why this interview answer works: |
| difficult? | | | | You immediately let the interviewer know that you |
| - Above all, what did you gain from your studies that | | | | take other people's opinions into account and don't just |
| will be useful to your employer? Here is an example of | | | | dole out advice regardless of whether it is wanted. |
| questions and some model answers to consider and | | | | The answer acknowledges possible negative issues |
| adapt to your own situation. Many of these questions | | | | but gets these out of the way before moving on to |
| are equally relevant if you have just completed a | | | | the positive. |
| professional training or practical/technical course of | | | | The answer includes an upbeat comment about |
| some kind. Again, the interviewer's emphasis is likely to | | | | yourself, so although the question was a fairly general |
| be on how you made your choice, how committed | | | | one, the interviewee brings it back to the highly |
| you are to it and whether it is something of specific | | | | personal. |