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As a Field Sales Executive you will have had some previous Sales experience, maybe in a similar industry or product line or maybe even a role on the road and a different industry. Whatever your experience you will need to be good at selling.  Your communication skills will need to be second to none and you will need to be very motivated and confident.

Before attending your interview you need to know what area you will be expected to work, how far is it, how achievable are the results? You need to analyse what the company is all about, can you find out what other sales people they have or what the company team size is etc?

Related: Sales Assistant Cover Letter

As a sales person in the field you will need to be prepared to travel some miles each day and depending on the size of your area you may have to stay away one or two nights a week. With previous experience you will know that a sales environment is not always easy and that you need to be prepared for rejection and be self motivated to keep bouncing back up.

When you have assessed where your interview is going to be held and basic details such as parking etc then you need to analyse your skills and against the job requirements and prepare practice answers as to how your experience matches up to what they are looking for.

During your interview, you could be asked questions such as:
What products have you most enjoyed selling and why?How do you feel about working to targets and how have you worked to targets in the past?Can you sell (XXX) to me? They will be looking for an example of your selling technique so research their products/services.How do you keep motivated?As a sales role there are many job specific questions that you are likely to be asked but you need to go to the interview fully prepared and if you have done your research that will help a great deal.

Best of Luck.

  
As a Careers Adviser you will be expected to provide advice and support to job seekers. You will need to have some prior knowledge of the job market interviewing and recruitment and be able to discuss job details with clients and help them improve their CV’s etc.

Before attending an interview you will need to be certain of your previous experiences matched with the job requirements. Have you done something similar that you can draw upon during your interview, how do you communicate with people of all levels? You may be faced with making some difficult situation for people depending on the company or body that you work for so you need to be able to think on your feet and follow company procedures.

As a Careers adviser, your interviewer will be looking to see if you can provide support and help to people looking for careers advise. Depending on the company or body that you are hoping to be employed by will depend on what type of people you will advising and what their situations are.

During your interview, you could be asked questions such as:
When in the past have you helped someone to get a new job?What advice would you give to someone who could not do the job that they want to apply for?Do you know how to do a CV and help someone lay it out?What are your strong subjects to advise on?What do you feel makes a good interview?Related: Interview Questions and Answers

You will need excellent communication skills as you will spend the majority of your time talking and discussing opportunities with people. You will need a great deal of patience and empathy towards people and genuinely feel like you could help them. You will need excellent time management skills and be organised as you will be seeing numerous people each day and each meeting will be different depending on the person and situation.

Good luck.

  
As an Income officer you will be responsible for ensuring that monies, primarily rents owed are paid on time and any arrears under control. You will be required to visit tenants at their homes and collect rents on a weekly or monthly basis and deal with any concerns or issues that arise out of your visit.

You will be travelling about a lot and spending time making calls to ensure that the tenants are going to be in when you call and chasing people up as required.
Before attending an interview you will need to get your application form, your CV and job description together with any other information you have been given and go through it with a fine tooth comb. You need to make sure that any questions you are asked during your interview if you can do something that you can say yes and if there is something that you are slightly weaker on that you can highlight this first and turn it into a positive before being asked any questions during an interview.

Once you are comfortable that you can do the role and that you know exactly where the interview is going to be held and how you are going to get there then you need to focus on what questions you could ask them close to the end when it comes to asking questions.

Income Officer Interview Questions

Some of the questions you may be asked are as follows:
What do you understand about local government and how the housing market is?Tell me about a time when you have had a meeting with someone who was verbally abusive to you and how you handled this?Have you had any training of how to handle yourself?If you turn up at someone’s house and they have a dog which seems quite nasty, what would you do?Where would you keep the rental monies that you collect during your visiting times?You need to think that not everyone will be pleased to see someone coming to collect their rent and therefore you need to be prepared at all times. Your interviewer will be looking to see if you have the confidence and right manner and attitude to do this role.

Good luck.

  
If you have got an interview for an Estate Agent role then you will already be aware that you will need a good mixture of administration skills and sales skills. You will be required to show customers properties and also see customer’s houses so you will need to be very good at building up relationships.

If you have been offered an interview, now is the time to go through the job requirements with your CV and ensure that you can say confidently you can do what they are looking for and any weakness areas think of a positive to get round the fact that you have less knowledge in this area.

Ensure that you check where the estate agent office premises you will be required to work from is and also if you can get to know the local area, have a look for their FOR SALE or SOLD signs showing where they have a presence in the market place. If you are successful in your interview you will be required to take customers to houses or meet them there to show them around so it’s important that you get to know the area well.

As the most part of your role is a selling type role and you will more than likely have targets to work to then your interviewer will be looking to see how confident you are and how you interact with other people.

Estate Agent Interview Questions

During your interview you could be asked such questions as:
What do you think that young professionals look for in a house and what would you recommend to them? (They may give you a couple of examples to choose from).What is your sales technique?How well do you know the area? Do you know where XXX is?Name 5 roads in XXX area?What are the 3 best qualities about your work?There are numerous questions that you will be asked but your interviewer will definitely be looking to make sure that you are confident, well mannered and polite when dealing with customers.

Good luck.

  
As a Marketing Assistant you will help companies to promote their business and services through advertising the use of social media. You will be responsible for writing press releases and advert and communicating with the media.

If you have found a job and been invited to an interview then first of all you need to research the company and what exactly they do, where they are based, who they work with etc so that you can use your skills to help market that company in the best way possible.  You will need to be able to keep on top of new trends and new ways and be ahead of the game.

Once you are comfortable that you have the right background and can do the job well and your skills match adequately then you can analyse the job description and make a note of any questions that you would like to ask during your interview. It is important to ask questions so if you are unable to come up with something during the interview having a rehearsed question will help.

Marketing Assistant Interview Questions

During your interview you could be asked questions such as:
How often do you use Face book, Twitter etc?What do you use them for primarily?Do you think a Face book page works for a business?Where did you learn to write press releases? (Be prepared they may ask for some writing test or for you to take something you have written before)What is your understanding of how effective social media is?Where do you normally advertise? Where do you think we should be advertising? Your interviewer will want to know that your writing skills and your communication skills are second to none. This role requires talking and communicating with people daily and you will need to keep on top of this to be successful.

Good luck.

  
If you have been invited to an interview for the role of HR Generalist then you will have some previous HR experience but not want to go down the route of a specialist area within HR. Your interviewer will be focusing on your communication skills and how you deal with people and implement processes and procedures.

Before attending any interview, it is imperative to establish what you are going to wear which makes you look smart and dressed for business and also where exactly the interview is and is that where the role will be based or is it at a different location. Once you have researched these facts and know how you will travel to the interview and jobsite and where you are going to park etc, all the little details that are important to know well in advance so you do not worry about them and can concentrate fully on the interview.

Your interviewer will be looking to ensure that your HR knowledge is varied and will want to see what you have done in the past. Ensure that you have gone through the job description with your CV and match your skills with what they want you to do. It is important to highlight what you are less sure about being able to do so that you can carefully answer this when it comes up in the interview.

HR Generalist Interview Questions

Some of the questions you could be asked are:
What made you choose HR as a career?Any thoughts on doing CIPD qualification?How do you communicate with people?Tell me about a time that you have had to deliver some bad news to someone be it redundancy, personal bad news, not able to give a pay rise etc, describe how you handled this and what happened?What types of procedures have you helped to implement in the past?Have you had any payroll experience?The HR role is a very varied one and the list of questions are endless. If you have researched the company and industry or sector combined with the role then you may be able to think about some industry related questions that you could be asked.

Good Luck.

  
If you have been invited to an interview as a Banking Assistant then you may already have some prior banking knowledge but if not then you will probably come from a customer services background. The role of a banking assistant will have a great deal of contact with customers and need to have a very confident approach to customers and colleagues.

Before attending your interview, make sure that you have researched thoroughly the bank that you are hoping to be employed by. Do you have any prior knowledge of banking and if so with who? Draw comparisons that maybe you could bring into your interview?

You will need to dress very smartly for your interview as it is business dress or maybe a uniform when working in a bank and you need to come across as ready for business.

Your interviewer will be looking at your customer service skills and how you communicate with others. It is essential to have a calm and patient manner towards your customers but also you will be required to learn new products and services very quickly to be able to explain this to customers coming into the branch.

Banking Assistant Interview Questions

Some possible questions that you could be asked during your interview are:
How would you deal with an awkward customer? When would you feel you need to escalate a problem?What do you understand about the products and services we offer?Do you know anyone else who works for the name of the bank?How are your maths skills?Are you prepared to do any further training?Your interviewer will be looking how you can work towards targets selling new products, if you can work as part of a team and how you will manage with customers and learning new products. You will need to have a confident nature and be able to pay great attention to detail in this role.

Best Wishes.

  
If you are looking for a position as an Accounting Clerk then you will have had previous experience in working in an accounts department. You will usually do a variety of tasks in this role such as balancing accounts, dealing with invoices, petty cash etc and you may wish to do some accounting qualifications and progress your career from this role.

You will need to be very organised and efficient to do this role well and have a good head for figures. You will need to be able to demonstrate this at your interview so it is important to make sure you know exactly what the position entails and then you can match it to your CV and see what areas you are missing or if none what you would like to learn in the future.

Your interviewer will be keen to know how well you work on your own initiative and whether you are able to concentrate on figures for long periods of time and also how well you work in a team as you will usually work in a team with at least one other person depending on the size of the company.
During your interview you should prepare for questions such as:

Accounting Clerk Interview Questions
Have you ever worked with purchase orders and what system was used?What Accounts computerised packages have you used and to what level?What part did you play in dealing with the Accountants at the year end?How do you work, organised or chaotic?What kind of accounts queries have you had to deal with in the past?Where do you see your accounting career in the next 5 years?Your interviewer will be looking to make sure that you are a very thorough individual and very accurate and that you have a confidential nature as you will be privy to some very important and sensitive information.

You will also receive typical / most asked interview questions too:
Tell me about yourself.What are your strengths?What are your weaknesses?Why do you want this job?Where would you like to be in your career five years from now?What’s your ideal company?What attracted you to this company?Why should we hire you?What did you like least about your last job?When were you most satisfied in your job?What can you do for us that other candidates can’t?What were the responsibilities of your last position?Good luck with your interview. Let us know how it went.

  
If you have got an interview for a Boiler Technician role then you will be qualified in this role and have had to pass rigorous tests and exams to be qualified. You will also have to have some work experience throughout your training with some kind of mentor to ensure that you have trained thoroughly and are experienced enough to be able to fix, maintain and repair customer’s boilers. Depending on who you work for you could be working on commercial or private boilers.

Before going to any interview you need to be as well prepared as possible so the key here is to research effectively. You need to know exactly what type of company you are looking to work for and what the job role entails. You can match your skill set through comparing the job description and CV and doing a detailed summary on what you can and can’t do. This is important to be able to explain and turn to a positive any areas that you are less comfortable with.

Boiler Technician Interview Questions

You could be asked questions such as:
Where did you undergo your training?What boilers have you worked on to date?Why did you choose this career path?Explain in simple terms how a boiler works, as if you were talking to a customer with no prior knowledge?Do you have any restrictions to work, such as geographical area?Be prepared for your interviewer to want to know what type of person you are, how you deal with customers, if you have ever had any customer service training in the past and what your working method is? You will need to follow detailed appointments and will have a set time to do these appointments in to ensure that they do not over run and have to be re booked. You will probably be at your busiest in the winter months.

Remember that you will also receive typical interview questions too:
Tell me about yourselfWhy should we hire you?What makes you better candidate than othersWhat is your weakness / strength?Good luck.

  
If you have been offered an interview for an Administrative Assistant then you will need to be experienced in admin work consisting of typing, filing, organising documents, ordering stationery and equipment, dealing with queries etc.
You will need to be a very organised person who provides help and support to a department or a team in administration terms.

If you are ready to go to your interview, you need to do enough research about the company and the job role. Normally you can find a lot about a company by looking on their website and you need to research this carefully so that you can answer questions on the company when you are asked.

You also need to take the job description and your CV and see what skills you are confident of doing and what you need to pay a bit more attention to. This way it stops any embarrassing questions during an interview.

Always dress professionally to any interview, no matter how relaxed others seem to dress, you are still creating your impression to your interviewers and it is important to arrive looking very smart.

Administrative Assistant Interview Questions

You could be asked questions during your interview such as:
How competent are you on Microsoft Office packages?How much working knowledge do you have of Excel?How confident are you on the Telephone? Tell me about some calls that you have made in a professional capacity in the past?How would your previous Manager describe your work attitude?What projects and work have you been used to using on Word and Power point, please give examples?Why do you think you are the right person for this position?Why should we hire you?Tell me about yourselfWhat makes you better candidate than others?What motivates you?What is your experience in dealing with confidential documents?Can you describe a time when you have to work in a multi-disciplinary team?What is your weakness?What are your strengths?How do you deal with a difficult client?Describe a situation where you worked under pressureExample of problem solving in previous jobs whereby you got to the bottom of the problem quicklyHow well do you perform under pressureWhy do you want to work with us?Describe a time when you worked with difficult peopleDo you know what your typing speed is?How would you go about stocking up on stationery for the office?How would your previous Manager or colleagues describe your communication skills?Have you taken notes/minutes during a meeting and what kind of meetings?Where do you see your role in terms of an office structure?How do you keep information private and confidential from your colleagues?There are various questions that you could be asked during your interview so it is important to know your CV inside out as well as their job description and any research or other company information that you can find. Your interviewer will be looking to assess if you can fit into their team and company and make a difference to the gap they feel that they have in the company.

Good luck.