Hiring new people.

why did you leave your previous work?

A long time ago, I used to hire fresh engineering gradutes to work under me. I was working then for a big cosmetic manufacturing company. My responsibilities were project based so I had to get some people to help me in my many tasks. I had a set of standard questions to determine if their education matches the qualifications, but I've always have a couple of questions to determine their personality. One of which, what they do for fun? This is just to determine if they have a means to release and vent, if the pressure of the job got too much.

One of my favorite questions is "why should I hire you?" Other variations of this is , "why should I choose you over the other applicants?" or "what do you have to offer this company?". This give the applicant a chance to showcase their skill sets while at the same time selling themselves to the company. You can evaluate their ability to intellectually and effectively express themselves in a clear and concise manner. You can ask them to describe situations where they had to use certain skills such as tact, empathy, handling an irate customer, etc. Whatever skills are important in the performing of their job duties at your company.

Do you have any experience? If not are you willing to work for one week? Where did you work previously? Can you work different hours? And the most important. Can you work under a lot of pressure?? That is the printing industry's most favourate questions. TATA.