QUESTIONS ABOUT THE }08 AND THE ORGANISATION

(a) What makes you think that you could do this job?

(b) Why do you want this job?

(c) What do you think this job will require of you?

(d) What qualities do you look for in your boss?

(e) Can you work on your own?

(f) How well do you get on with older people?
(g) Will you work overtime at short notice?
(h) What do you know about this company?
(i) What starting salary do you expect?
(j) Will you come on a month's trial?
(k) Will you accept the job now?
Interviews 223 Employment interviews have been considered in detail because of their importance to every student. There are other formal interviews which you are likely to encounter at work. They will be concerned with performance, pay, difficulties and grievances. Sometimes, inevitably, you will be reprimanded and there are occasions on which people must be dismissed. Others move from one job to another and are interviewed before they leave their old firms as well as for the new job.