A mock job interview is a great way of testing out all your hard work and interview preparation that you’ve done.

You have done your interview prep haven’t you?

What you’re looking to do is reassure yourself that you’ve covered all the bases and you’re truly ready for your job interview. Done properly a mock job interview will enable you to test your ability to handle those tough interview questions interviewers love to throw at you.

So the objective of taking a mock job interview or job interview practice is to correct any mistakes whilst it’s NOT important, and build your confidence for the real thing.

So what sort of mock job interview questions should you be asking yourself?

Well you need to cover the same territory as the interviewer is likely to cover with you. This is going to cover the usual range of job interview questions and answers. If you analyze all the types of job interview questions that you could face, it’s possible to group them into 9 distinct categories.

1. Interview directly relating to you, them and the role. “Why do you want to work for ABC company?”, “What do you think makes you the best candidate for the role?”
2. Directly relating to specific key skills relating to the role. “As a management accountant, what do you feel are the three most important attributes for the role”?
3. Reasoning type questions. Employers want to know how you think and on what basis you make decisions. “Give us an example of overcoming a disagreement with a boss or colleague, where you got them to come round to your way of thinking”?
4. Strengths and weakness job interview questions.
5. What you have learned from a problem or mistake type of question.
6. Greatest achievement or worst failure type of question.
7. Where do you see yourself in the future type of question.
8. Direct questions about gaps in career, or previous career choices.
9. Direct questions designed to put you under pressure. These questions are often asked when things are going well, and they want to give you one final challenge. They may even make up a situation just to see your reaction. For example “We very occasionally have to work over the entire weekend if a client project demands it, would this be OK with you”?

Clearly it’s impossible to foresee the exact questions you’re going to be asked by your interviewer but by preparing a strategy to answer each of the 9 generic categories of interview question you, make your interview prep a lot easier.

In Interview Sniper our free mock job interview answers guide, we look at each of these in detail, and give you one strategy that you apply across all 9 examples of interview question. This is much easier than taking a huge list of example interview questions and trying to work out answers to each.

Interview Sniper will also compliment your mock job interview preparation by explaining what skills and personality traits employers’ value highest, which is critical when it comes to designing compelling mock interview answers.

In terms of mock job interview products and job interview practice and training courses there are many commercial offerings available.

The product I’ve owned for ages and they update every 18 month or so is the Complete Interview Guide. Not the prettiest of websites, but the product is really good. I also like Bob Firestone’s Interview Guide, which though not as detailed, offers some really useful bonuses.

The other option is InterviewGold. Interviewgold is a fully interactive on-line mock job interview training guide. This is quite new on the market, but gets rave reviews, and interactive on-line learning is far easier than reading a book.

I’m not making any one recommendation, as all are good, and all have money back guarantees, so check them out and see what you think.

InterviewGold is available here

Bob Firestone’s The Ultimate Guide To Job Interview Answers is available here.

And Nan & Matt Deluca’s Complete Interview Guide is available here

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