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Question 10 Describe your ideal company, location and job.
TRAPS: This is often asked by an experienced
interviewer who thinks you may be overqualified, but knows better than to
show his hand by posing his objection directly. So he’ll use
this question instead, which often gets a candidate to reveal that, indeed,
he or she is looking for something other than the position at hand.
BEST ANSWER: The only right answer is to describe
what this company is offering, being sure to make your answer believable
with specific reasons, stated with sincerity, why each quality represented
by this opportunity is attractive to you.
Remember that if you’re coming from a company that’s the leader
in its field or from a glamorous or much admired company, industry, city
or position, your interviewer and his company may well have an “Avis”
complex. That is, they may feel a bit defensive about being “second
best” to the place you’re coming from, worried that you may
consider them bush league.
This anxiety could well be there even though you’ve done nothing to
inspire it. You must go out of your way to assuage such anxiety, even if
it’s not expressed, by putting their virtues high on the
list of exactly what you’re looking for, providing credible reason
for wanting these qualities.
If you do not express genuine enthusiasm for the firm, its culture, location, industry, etc., you may fail to answer this “Avis” complex objection and, as a result, leave the interviewer suspecting that a hot shot like you, coming from a Fortune 500 company in New York, just wouldn’t be happy at an unknown manufacturer based in Topeka, Kansas.