Question: In your opinion, what knowledge or skills do you have that can help our company achieve our goals?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

How do you believe that your current skills will contribute to the accomplishment of our company’s goals and mission?

Follow-up questions:

Have you used these skills at your current employer? What was the outcome?
How did you develop these skills?
What specific area in our company do you think these skill will be the most useful?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Knowledge/Skill Based

Skills:

Basic – Monitoring (Making observations of self and environment),Systems Analysis

Other Factors:

Candidate Preparedness,Personal Improvement (Growth),Personality-Job Fit,Personality-Organization Fit,Self-Awareness

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events,Mental Processes – Analyzing Data or Information,Mental Processes – Developing Objectives and Strategies,Mental Processes – Judging the Value of Things, Services, or People,Mental Processes – Processing Information,Mental Processes – Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Achievement/Effort (Action/Result Orientation),Adaptability/Flexibility

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

You are looking for the candidate’s research on your company.
If the candidate properly aligns their skills with the company’s mission.
If the candidate can list out some of their accomplishments from past.
It’s okay if they don’t have all the skills required for the job, but do they have the eagerness for learning new things.

Red Flags to Watch For:

The skills are completely irrelevant to the job requirement.
If the candidate hasn’t done enough research on the company’s products and services.
If the candidate sounds too overconfident and boasts about their actions and success they received in the past.

Sample Answer:

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Question Source: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/best-interview-questions-for-employers-to-ask-applicants-1918483