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Get the job you interview for -- without ‘interview jitters’, embarrassment, or being stumped by trick interview questions.  Matt & Nan DeLuca and the job-interview.net experts will prepare you for your interview with the Complete Interview Guide.

  • Answers to more than 50 of the Toughest Interview Situations - follow-up calls & letters, illegal questions
  • Control your nerves and give natural, unrehearsed answers
  • Questions to ask the interviewers
  • Review hundreds of skills and abilities questions and answer tips
  • Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions

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  1. Where do you want to be 5 years from now in your career?
  2. What are your long term career goals?
  3. What prompted you to take your current job?
  4. Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
  5. Why did you make a career change?
  6. Why do you want to leave your current position?
  7. Five years ago, where did you see yourself today?
  8. What is your career goal?

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INTERVIEW IN DEPTH
A detailed analysis of a tough interview question from Matt & Nan DeLuca, authors of the best selling "Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions"

Where do you see yourself in five years?

This is the interviewer trying to see how you are in making long range plans and if you have goals that mesh with the organization's.  One way to answer this question is to look back on your accomplishments to date: "I started out in my profession as a junior clerk while I completed my college studies during the evenings.  Once I had my degree, I applied for a transfer to a more advanced position, citing my on-the-job training.  This has been my pattern for my career with my past 2 employers.  I learn quickly on the job and am willing to take classes and workshops to augment my experience.  I have been able to assume greater responsibilities and add more value to the organization.  I do not think in terms of titles...I think more in terms of "How can I solve this problem?  Since this has been my career style to date, I do not imagine it to change.  In five years, I feel I will have continued to learn, to grow into a position of more responsibility and will have made a significant contribution to the organization."

What are your short and long term goals?

No one can make goals for you.  It comes down to where you are in your professional life and what you want to do.  Most people have 5-6 careers in their working lifetime---some with 2 careers going at the same time (like us).

The best advice is to be certain to relate your answers to the organization that interviews you.  Do not make a point of having goals that cannot be realized there ("I want to work in Paris." Organization is strictly domestic.)  If you do your research into the organization, and into what you truly want to do in the future, you will be able to come up with reasonable responses.  No one is going to come back to you in five years and chastise you for not meeting these goals!  You will not be held to them...it is only an interview and they are interested in how you see yourself (and they want to see you in the job.)

 

     

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