Question: Which of your skills do you think will be particularly relevant for this role?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

Follow-up questions:

Why so?
What are you doing to up this skill?
Can you share an example where you made a positive impact in your current or past company’s decisions?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Knowledge/Skill Based

Skills:

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

Abilities:

Cognitive – Visualisation

Other Factors:

Candidate Preparedness,Direct Job Experience,Motivation/Ambition/Aspiration,Personal Improvement (Growth),Personality-Job Fit,Personality-Organization Fit,Self-Awareness

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Estimating Characteristics of Objects, Events, or Information,Information Input – Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events,Mental Processes – Analyzing Data or Information,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),Humility

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

If the candidate has done thorough research on your company and the role they have applied for.
If the skill they mentioned is relevant to the job and the organization.
If the candidate’s example talks about their success with this skill.

Red Flags to Watch For:

If the candidate’s skill is not relevant to the job.
If the candidate highlights many skills and have no particular example to share how any of that made an impact.

Sample Answer:

N/A

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