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Essential Interview Questions and PAR Guide

This document provides 10 common interview questions and guidance on how to effectively answer them using the PAR (Problem-Action-Result) model. The PAR model involves describing a specific problem or project, the actions you took to address it, and the quantitative and qualitative results. Applicants are advised to choose examples from their resume that demonstrate the key requirements for the position and to keep responses concise at around 2 minutes or less.

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Essential Interview Questions and PAR Guide

This document provides 10 common interview questions and guidance on how to effectively answer them using the PAR (Problem-Action-Result) model. The PAR model involves describing a specific problem or project, the actions you took to address it, and the quantitative and qualitative results. Applicants are advised to choose examples from their resume that demonstrate the key requirements for the position and to keep responses concise at around 2 minutes or less.

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Interview questions

1. Tell Me About Yourself / Walk Me Through Your Resume/CV?


2. What Are Your Strengths? / Why Did You Apply? / Why Should we Hire You?
3. Why Do You Want to Work Here?
4. What is your career goal what drew you to this position? How does your professional
experience link with this position?
5. How well do you work as part of a team? Tell us about the time when you worked
successfully as a team? Or describe a situation where you were successful in getting
people to work together effectively? Give us an example which shows that you can
motivate a team to get the very best performance from them?
6. Describe a time when you used your organisational skills effectively to complete an
important activity?
7. Describe a complicated problem you have had to deal with. How did you tackle it
and what was the outcome?
8. Can you tell me a time when you delt with challenge and how you tackled it? What
did you do and what was the outcome?
9. Tell me about the time you faced and dealt with tight deadline?
10.How to handle security related stressful situations in emergency response?
To answer these questions, refer to:
When creating your own PAR examples, read through the job summary and then write
three PAR examples for three main requirements in the job description.

Review your PAR examples and check that you have:

 Used the job description to customize the PAR example

 Explained the problem or project quickly and clearly

 Focused the majority of the story on actions and results

 Specified your role and contributions within the team

 Included numbers to quantify results

 Limited the example to a short, concise story that is two minutes or less when
spoken aloud

Problem-Action-Result Model
Interview Question: ________________

Answer using PAR:


1. Problem/Project
2. Actions
3. Results
 Short-term
 Long-term

Use this as a guide and fill in the blanks:


This is an example of when I ________________ (saved money or time, created a new
project, reduced waste, learned from a mistake, etc.).

While I was working at_____________________ as


_______________________________, we/I faced a project/situation involving
_______________________________.

So I took these action steps:


1. ____________________________
2. ____________________________
3. ____________________________
As a result, _____________________.
And I felt (or my teammates or managers felt/said) ________________________________.
In the long term, ________________.

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