Job Interview Questionnaire

No matter what anyone else will tell you, there are ways to answer specific questions during an interview, as well as things you should NOT say. If you are one of those people who fears the job interview process, you are not alone! For tips to putting your best foot forward during a job interview, read the article below!

Yes , there is such a thing as a job interview questionnaire. No matter if you plan to work for McDonald’s, or some other office position in a high-rise city building, questionnaires have become the quick fix for some jobs. Rather than have to sit through countless interviews with people barely qualified for the position, this is an establishment’s quick fix.

For those unfamiliar with questionnaires, this happens to be a list of a bunch of “generic” questions – usually ones that need a qualified answer in order to even get to an interview stage! Sounds a bit scary, doesn’t it? Well, just like the rest of the interviewing process, there is nothing wrong with looking up possible questions and answers to a questionnaire.

There are more ways nowadays to find assistance with job interviews – and the entire process thereof – than a decade ago. First, (and I am sure that you have noticed) the Internet is one of our best resources of information that we, as a people, have ever had. However, there will always be those who feel that something as simple as an interview for a job does not require much assistance. Either that, or perhaps they are misinformed, and do not realize that there is help out there.

A questionnaire tends to give the interviewer a small idea as to who you are, and what kind of skills you may have. Some questionnaires are performed on a computer, where the prospective employee is asked many different typing questions, as well as simple spelling, math, and even science or general social studies questions. Most often, it is can also be an aptitude test that tries to give timed essays, or memorization recollections.

Most often, a questionnaire can be sneaky. I have taken one such questionnaire, where – in the simple instructions on how to fill out a scantron form correctly – the last instruction asks the prospective employees to go back to the top of the first page, and circle the icon on the left side. When I passed up the test at the end of the evaluation, there were only three out of a class of close to forty who had actually read all of the directions and circled the icon!

Can you guess which three applications the employers looked at first? Can you also guess whether or not I got that job? Yes, I did! Now, it may not have had much to do with the fact that I can actually read and follow directions, but – then again – we may never truly know, now will we?