Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Pre-Interview Preparation
The HR department will respond to queries about the advert and provide clarity to
interested candidates. Candidates’ CVs will be reviewed as soon as they are received and
candidates that are seen to have potential will be short-listed prior to the interview
process.
Follow-up
• Have you made sure that materials were ready and delivered on time? Give an
example.
• After you schedule meetings, conferences or trips have you ever double-checked
the arrangements? Tell me about a time when you did this.
Defense: These questions were chosen to assess the candidates competency at checking
performance standards after doing a task; and whether the candidate would modify there
performance afterwards if the task was perceived to be not up to standard.
Communication
• How many different languages and cultures are you familiar with? Give an
example of a culture you would like to encounter in the job environment.
• Are you comfortable with working closely with a co-worker who happens to be of
the opposite sex? What type of situation would be uncomfortable for you?
Defense: These questions are designed to give an idea of how easily a candidate can
overcome ethnic and gender differences that are in most cases unavoidable and
essentially have to be overcome.
Adaptability
• Tell me about the most challenging change you’ve faced at work. What did you
do? What were the results?
• Tell me about the time when you had to adjust to companywide reorganization.
How did you respond?
Defense: These questions are asked to get an idea of how the candidate adjusts to
change in order to give an insight of how the candidate might react to change.
Energy
• Tell me about a time when you had to put things together in sequence at a
constant tempo. What did you do to maintain your pace?
• People often make errors after they work long hours on the job. Tell me about the
last time this happened to you?
Defense: These questions are asked to give the candidate an idea of what they are
getting themselves involved in. The purpose of the questions is not the scare the
candidate but to measure their reaction to the idea of having to work especially hard for
really long periods of time.
• Occasionally other people’s work priorities conflict with yours. Tell me about a
time when this happened to you. What did you do?
• Describe a time when you wished you’d been more collaborative with others at
work. What did you do?
Defense: The organizational culture of Mishima Corp is something to the effect that
working on your own merit can only get you so far whereas working in tandem with
others can be a more rewarding and growing experience. These questions are asked to
give an indication of how well the candidate would fit in the organizational culture if they
were hired.