28 Questions You Might Be Asked By Nigerian Interviewers/Recruiters

 Sofia McLane

Sofia  is a HR Manager with 10 years of experience in recruiting and interviewing job seekers. Currently, she is working with ENOSITE Inc., a Toronto based a free website builder. It’s an easy web page builder which you can make your site within a matter of minutes.

Even though there are numerous ways that could offer you some good assistance for getting decent job, but doing well with your interview is a basic part to get success, especially in Nigeria where getting admission in a university and securing a decent job are quite difficult.

We believe that one of the most ideal routes for employment seekers to get prepared for a meeting is to rehearse their response and reactions to any queries that might be asked by the interviewers during interview.

We have sorted out topic-wise 28 behavioral interview questions so that you can do practice before going to the next interview.

Most Common Questions Asked by Nigerian Recruiters:

1. Say something about yourself?
2. (Here you briefly tell about your work history, education and accomplishments).
3. What are your greatest strengths?
4. (Here you can tell about your finest skills by quoting a short example that how your former employer got benefited from your skills)
5. What are your weaknesses?
6. (A good approach is to talk about a weakness you had is to show how it had worked to your benefit. Don’t mention your every quirk and foible).
7. What is your expected salary?
8. (You may quote a broad range of salary based on your past salary, bonuses and benefits).

Questions Related to Teamwork

1. Share us about a time when you worked with someone whose temperament was very different from yours. How did you deal?
2. Tell about a time that how you built a relationship with someone who was being difficult to deal with yet was important?
3. You may also share a small mistake that you wish you could take back by telling them that how you could have handled that situation differently with that colleague. What alternative you could have taken?
4. Share how you were able to get the information from someone who was not very prompt in giving response.

Questions Related to Time Management Skills

1. Tell us about the time when you had to deal very strategically to meet all your deadlines.
2. Tell us how you have managed a long-term project along with other office work in a timely fashion?
3. Tell us about the time your work got overwhelming. What did you do?
4. Tell us about when you had set a goal for yourself and how did you meet your objective?
5. Illustrate about a time when you managed several responsibilities at a time.

Questions Related to Motivation and Values

1. Share with us about your biggest professional achievement yet.
2. If any issue has taken place in your team work, will you take the initiative by yourself or wait for someone else to take it?
3. Give us an example about a time you were creative with your work. How did you find it exciting and complicated?
4. Share us the time when you were really disappointed with your work. What did you do to overcome it?

Questions Related to Adaptability

1. Tell us about the time when there was a lot of pressure and how did you go through it?
2. Share us the time when your organization was bringing changes. How did you they influence you?
3. Tell us about the time you changed the job and how did you adjust in a different culture?
4. Share us about the time you failed and how did you deal with it?

Questions Related to Communication Skills

1. Illustrate when you were successful to convince your boss to do something in your way.
2. Tell us about the time when you relied on the written communication to spread your ideas across the team.
3. Tell us about the time when you explained something really complex to an angry client.
4. Tell us about your successful presentation.

Questions Related to Client Dealing

1. Share us about the time when you made a good impression on your client.
2. Share us about the time when you were sure that your services delighted your customer.
3. Describe a time when you successfully represented your firm to the clients.

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