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syousuf · New User Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 6 Career Advice: +0/-0

what are some frequently asked questions for accounts.Which questions the interviewer ask the most frequently.

Pauloz · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:50 am Post subject:

syousuf

Not a simple answer, I'm afraid.

Because of the range and depth of accountancy jobs, you will have some basic similarities in questions, but not necessarily general questions. If you're an accountant, they need to know the specifics of your skills, rather than basics, for example. They don't need to know if you've done your degree, they need to see your experience and what levels of difficulty you've handled.

However, you may also have some different types of interview to contend with, because some accountancy jobs require a certain range of questions. You may get situational or behavioral interviews, and perhaps a screening test before a formal interview.

The screening test is a filter, designed to cull applicants, and will be fairly basic.

A situational interview will give you a scenario, a behavioral interview will ask you how you handled an issue, to demonstrate your skills.

(Note: Screening tests can also include these types of question. These are fairly normal interview questions, which you will be familiar with from prior experience, like "How did you handle a crisis at work?", etc.)

Interview techniques can be very variable, depending on the level and type of the job. Different types of interview produce different types of question.

Our interviews page gives more depth on the subject.

http://www.cvtips.com/job_interview.html

There's a Hard Questions link which may be helpful, too:

http://www.cvtips.com/hard_interview_questions.html

There is one way of predicting interview questions, or at least the basic topics, though. The essential criteria for a job must be addressed at the interview. Those are the things the interviewers must ask you, because they have to report on those criteria for each candidate.

So if "communications skills" or "leadership" are part of the job description, you can pretty much set your watch by the fact that those will be topics. The questions may be indirect, but these are the qualities you need to prove in your interview.

Suggest you concentrate on these essentials, on principle.

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