Categories of an interview questions

Particular knowledge/skills you need to get this job	What you know about a position/ prospective employer	Reasons why this job is important to you	Your qualifications, work experience, and interests	What kind of person you are

Interview sample questions

1. Please tell me a little about yourself?

2. What knowledge is needed to be a Railroad position?

3. What skills are required for a Railroad position?

4. What work activities does a Railroad position do?

5. What should you major in to become a Railroad position?

6. What are the best colleges, universities, schools for a Railroad position?

7. What have you learned from your past jobs that related to a Railroad position?

8. Why did you leave your last job?

9. Tell me about your last position and what you did?

10. Where would you like to be in 3 years? 5 years?

11. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

12. What are top 3 skills for a Railroad position?

13. What do you know about this company?

14. Describe two or three major trends in your field?

15. Why did you choose this profession/field?

16. What is the most recent skill you have learned that related to a Railroad position?

17. Why is this job important to you?

Exercise 2. Work in pairs. Listen to the interview and answer the questions:

1. What is the Interviewee by profession?

2. What experience working with lighting or sound systems does the Interviewee have?

3. Why is the Interviewee ready to travel?

Exercise 3. Listen again. Student A repeats after the Interviewee. Student B repeats after the Interviewer. Imitate pronunciation, speaking rate and intonation of the speakers. Change the roles.

Exercise 4. Listen to differentiate the questions of the Interviewer. In the following script put question marks (?).

WhatexperiencedoyouhaveinthiskindofworkI’maskilledcarpenterandlovedonealot

ofworkmakingdisplaysforexhibitionsandconferencesIt’squitesimilartostageworkdo youhaveanyexperienceworkingwithlightingorsoundsystemsIwasaroadiewitharock bandforsixmonthsThebanddidn’tlastverylong–theyweren’tverygood–butIgotalotof experiencewithsoundsystemswe’relookingforsomeonewho'spreparedtotravelforat leastfourmonthseachyearwouldthatbeaproblemforyouno,I’msingleatthemoment, andIliketravelling.

Exercise 5. Reproduce the dialogue. Student A acts as the Interviewee, Student B acts as the Interviewer. Change the roles.

Language spot.

Alphabetising. Determining the Part of Speech.

Exercise 1. When you need to use a dictionary, you want to be able to find words quickly. Words in a dictionary are in alphabetical order. If the first letter is the same, you need to look at the second letter. If the first and the second letters are the same, you need to look at the third letter, and so on. Now, as quickly as possible, put the words in each group in alphabetical order.

A	B	C
paragraph	skill	need
mark	third	must
decide	review	efficient
full-time	difficult	messy
resume	pen	extraordinary
from	reader	much
probably	several	maybe
right	passage	never
first	different	extract
detail	second	margin

Exercise 2. Before you look up a word in a dictionary, you need to know its part of speech. The part of speech is the form of the word: noun, adjective, adverb, etc. A dictionary indicates the part of speech with abbreviations: n = noun; adj = adjective; adv = adverb. Find a definition for each part of speech given below.

a noun	modifies an adjective or verb
a verb	is a word for a person, place, thing, or situation
an adjective	is usually an action word
an adverb	describes a noun
pronoun	determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the
article	is used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if)
conjunction	you use to express a strong feeling such as surprise, pain, or horror (e.g. ah!, dear me!)
interjection	replaces a noun
number	the basic form of a verb
infinitive	expresses a number

Now identify the part of speech of the words in the following sentences.

1. Helena Schultz hopes to find an entry-level position at a large international engineering company.

2. She went to Siberian Transport University from 2005 to 2010.

3. There Helena took engineering courses and studied foreign languages to use for professional purposes.

4. She speaks English and Chinese fluently and has good computer skills.

Exercise 3. Another way to decide the part of speech is from suffix of the word. Here are some examples:

Suffixes for Nouns	Suffixes for Adjectives	Suffixes for Adverbs
-tion	-less	-ly
-sion	-ful	-ily
-ence	-ent	-fully
-ance	-ant
-er, -or, -ist	-al
-ment	-ible
-ness	-able

Now decide the part of speech of each word below from its suffix.

reader	efficient
usually	careful
possible	question
difference	efficiently
situational	questionable
condition	discussion
beautifully	happiness
careless	distant
engineer	assignment
possibly	importance

WebProject

Visit the following sites and enter a sector that you are interested in, such as Engineering, in the Search box find a job you think is interesting and follow the link. When you have done your research, write a resume for the job.

www.milkround.com/s4/jobseekers/

www.eurograduate.com

www.careerjet.com