Stress and Pressure Interview Questions

When dealing with questions that put pressure on you or create stress, be confident, credible and constructive (accentuate the positive) in your answers. And make sure you prepare. Stress and pressure questions come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Three commonly used types of pressure questions are those dealing with weakness and failure; blame; and evidence of ability or experience.

weakness and failure questions

"Tell me about your failures....", or "What are your greatest weaknesses......".  are the interviewer's equivalent to "Are you still beating your wife?..".
Don't be intimidated by these questions - you don't have to state a failing or a weakness just because the interviewer invites you to.
"I don't generally fail", or "I really can't think of any", are perfectly acceptable answers. Short and sweet, and then wait smiling for the come-back - you'll have demonstrated that you are no mug and no pushover. If you are pressed (as you probably will be), here's your justification answer, or if you wish to appear a little more self-effacing use this as a first response:
"I almost always succeed because plan and manage accordingly. If something's not going right I'll change it until it works. The important thing is to put the necessary checks and contingencies in place that enable me to see if things aren't going to plan, and to make changes when and if necessary....."
or
"There are some things I'm not so good at, but I'd never say these are weaknesses as such - a weakness is a vulnerability, and I don't consider myself vulnerable.  If there's something I can't do or don't know, then I find someone who can do it or does know."
Do you see the positive orientation? Turn it around into a positive every time.

blame questions

Watch out also for the invitation to rubbish your past job or manager, especially in the form of: "Why did you leave your last job?", or "Why have you had so many jobs?"
The interviewer is not only satisfying curiosity..........   if you say your last boss was an idiot, or all your jobs have been rubbish, you'll be seen as someone who blames others and fails to take responsibility for your own actions and decisions.
Employers want to employ people who take responsibility, have initiative and come up with answers, not problems. Employers do not want to employ people who blame others.
So always express positive reasons and answers when given an opportunity to express the negative. Never blame anyone or anything else.
"I was ready for more challenge", or "Each job offered a better opportunity, which I took", or "I grow and learn quickly and I look for new opportunities",  or "I wanted to get as much different experience as quickly as I could before looking for a serious career situation, which is why I'm here."
I great technique for exploiting the blame question trap is to praise your past managers and employers. Generosity is a positive trait, so demonstrate it. Keep your praise and observations credible, realistic and relevant: try to mention attributes that your interviewer and prospective new employer will identify and agree with.  This will build association and commonality between you and the interviewer, which is normally vital for successful interview outcomes.  They need to see that you think like they do; that you'll fit in.

prove it questions

These can be the toughest of the lot.  Good interviewers will press you for evidence if you make a claim.  So the answer is  - be prepared.
Watch out for closed questions: "Can you do so-and-so?.." , "Have you any experience in such-and-such?..."  
These questions invite a yes or no answer and will be about a specific area.
If you give a yes, be prepared to deal with the sucker punch: "Can you give me an example?........"
The request for examples or evidence will stop you in your tracks if you've not prepared or can't back up your answer.
The trick is before the interview to clearly understand the requirements of the job you're being interviewed for.   Ask to see the job description, including local parameters if applicable, and any other details that explain the extent and nature of the role.  Think about how you can cover each requirement with examples and evidence.  Wherever possible use evidence that's quantified and relates to commercial or financial outputs.
Companies are interested in people who understand the notion of maximising return on investment, or return on effort.  If your examples and evidence stand up as good cost-effective practice, they'll clock up even more points for you. 
Make sure you prepare examples of the relevant capabilities or experience required, so that you're ready for the 'prove it' questions. You can even take papers or evidence material with you to show -having hard evidence, and the fact that you've thought to prepare it, greatly impresses interviewers.
If you don't have the evidence (or personal coverage of a particular requirement), then don't bluff it and say yes when you'd be better off saying, "No, however...."
Use "No, however ..." (and then your solution or suggestion), if asked for something that you simply don't have.
Give an example of where previously you've taken on a responsibility without previous experience or full capability, and made a success, by virtue of using other people's expertise, or fast-tracking your own development or knowledge or ability.
On this point - good preparation should include researching your employer's business, their markets and their competitors.  This will help you relate your own experience to theirs, and will show that you have bothered to do the research itself.
In summary, to deal with pressure questions: Keep control. Take time to think for yourself - don't be intimidated or led anywhere you don't want to go. Express every answer in positive terms. And do your preparation.
(This item about stress and pressure interview questions was written for the Sydney Morning Herald, extracts of which appeared in April 2004.)

Kalindi College Recruitment 2010

Kalindi College is situated at East Patel Nagar, Delhi since 1970. In college various courses are offered from Undergraduate level to Master Degree level. It has a good infrastructure of a fully developed computer lab & aims to offer all necessary facilities that students need for global competition. The faculty members have been actively engaged in academic pursuits in addition to the institutional responsibilities. Students, administration and faculty work together as a team to make the college academically sound and competent.

Applications are invited for the following positions :

Administrative officers ( Group A ) Posts: 1 
Remuneration: Candidates will get remuneration of Rs.15600-39100. 
Age limit: Candidates should not be more than 35 years. 
Qualification: Candidates should have good academic record plus Masters Degree with minimum 55% marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC seven point scale. 
Senior Personal Assistant ( Group B ) Posts: 1 
Remuneration: Candidates will get remuneration of Rs.9300-34000. 
Age limit: Candidates should not be more than 35 years. 
Qualification: Candidates must have passed Bachelor’s Degree examination from a recognized University or equivalent.

Last Date : 13.08.2010 For more details please visit : 
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Globalization, Wages, Jobs and Myths: by Gerard Jackson

In the present we find that opposition to globalization invariably turns out to really be opposition to free markets. Overall, the kind of changes leveled against the alleged evils of globalization turn out on closer examination to be no different from those leveled against the free market. In other words, attacks on globalization are really masking attacks on capitalism. In the words of Bob SantaMaria, one of Australia’s most prominent interventionists and monetary cranks, "Capitalism is the real enemy". Geoffrey Barker is another statist fundamentalist with an obvious loathing of economic reasoning. A journalist with the Fairfax stable, Barker's usual ideological tactic is to dismiss market economic analysis as "free market fundamentalism". This approach, apparently, is all that is needed to demolish any free-market agreement. Unfortunately, much of the economic rot that Barker is well noted for regurgitating seems to be largely accepted by the public. So when a bigoted economic illiterate like Barker uses the Australian Financial Review (9/12/97) to parrot anti-globalization propaganda, you can bet your bottom dollar he is preaching the equivalent of the party line.

Drawing on an article by a Rodrik ("Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate", 1997 summer edition of their Journal of Foreign Policy), Barker tells us that Rodrik sets out the globalization issues "with splendid clarity". (Coming from Barker, this kind of praise amounts to the kiss of death). Fortunately Rodrik's argument contains the bones of all anti-globalists' points. Rodrik claims to have found a relationship between unemployment, globalization and increasing demands for more welfare. This is just not true, particularly in the case of welfare. Increasing demand for welfare in Europe and America since the end of World War II has had nothing to do with foreign trade. No policy party ever proposed increased social spending to compensate for the alleged costs of free trade. Does anyone really believe that it was the rising volume of foreign trade and capital flows that caused Johnson to implement his big spending "Great Society" programs? Observers should also take note of the fact that an increasing amount of social spending is going to pensions, health and education. None of which have anything to do with foreign trade. Quite frankly, this argument has no merit at all, except for anti-market journalists looking for a club with which to beat the market. That anti-market likes of Barker make a particular point of ignoring, if not actually denying, the enormous role of that union-created unemployment plays in expanding the demand for more welfare.

Behind the welfare argument is the belief that globalization (free trade) raises the level of unemployment in high-wage countries and lowers living standards. This is an old anti-free trade agreement argument that has no substance at all. They can never be sufficiently stressed that free trade does not raise the volume of unemployment. (our unions do that). What it does do is reallocate labor and capital to more efficient lines of production. It is this increased efficiency that raises welfare by providing cheaper goods and services thus increasing purchasing power. Protectionists, in all their guises, argue that by opening up our markets real wages, especially of the unskilled, will be driven down by cheap foreign labor and capital out flows to cheap labor countries. The first argument is based on the assumption that by importing cheap goods we are, in a sense, actually importing cheap labor which is therefore in directly competes against unskilled domestic labor hence driving down its price.

This is a very plausible line of reasoning and is obviously based on the fact that the price of similar goods, including factors of production, tend to be equalized by the market process. The error here is the failure to realize that the prices to be equalized goods and factors of production must be free to move. This error has resulted in many people, including a number of economists, confusing the product of labor with labor services. It is quite possible, however, that in some circumstances certain types of foreign unskilled labor can compete directly with similarly domestic labor without migrating. For example, the nature of computer technology has made it possible for Western companies to directly bid for the services of Indian programs. So theoretically technology has made it possible to combine national markets for the services of this type of labor into a single international marketplace in which incomes will tend to be equalized because labor services will be hired directly instead of their products just being bought.

Globalization and Labor Standards

I feel that if we are to respond to the developments as I described earlier we must look to better tax systems, or zero tax systems and other mechanisms, but not to (and here I know I use a loaded phrase) imposing minimum conditions of work or even institutional strategies for collective bargaining on developing countries. In my opinion the cost of such conditions and strategies could be quite substantial for the developing countries and bring modest, if any, gains to the advanced countries.

This being said, I would like to stress that there should not be any argument about the so-called core human standards, or core labor standards, if we could agree exactly on what constitutes such a core. There must, indeed, the core conventions that are very strong, closely monitored and taken quite seriously on such issues as slavery and other forms of involuntary servitude or coercive labor, especially coercive child labor, on freedom of association, freedom to bargain, and the like. However, I would draw the line at dictating the institutional details in these standards, particularly on such issues as the nature of our bargaining structure, and so forth. Their basic strategy should be comfortable for all because they really are the underpinnings of free societies. I do not think these standards are ideologically loaded between the left and right and, as believers in individual liberties and freedoms, trade economists should be able to accept them just as much as everyone else. Where many of them demur is on other kinds of labor standards such as minimum wages, conditions of work, hire and fire terms, industrial relations systems, the nature of collective bargaining, and the like.

Globalization and Income Distribution:

First, I would like to reiterate my belief that globalization will lead to higher overall growth rates for almost all economies and that there will not be a trade-off between faster growth for some and slower growth for others.   Where distributional problems arise they are within income classes or between different skill levels but not between economies which grow more or less rapidly as result of the international economy, with obvious exceptions of countries that are disadvantaged by poor structures.  For example, special measures would be needed to assist the poorest landlocked countries which do not have an objectively difficult time keeping up with world economic growth.  On the whole, however, the developing countries have a good chance of achieving convergent growth rates.  In addition, if the developed countries called the right policies, that is if they have flexibility, moderate rates of taxation and the like-something which is eluding most of Western Europe right now-they might also benefit from global economy by being able to export their differentiated high technology products to a much larger world market.  In sum, the issue of distribution centres, not on whether some countries gained and others lose, but rather on income distribution within societies.  This is my first point.

 My second point concerns the division of income between capital and labor.  I would guess that the post tax income, of capital is privileged relative to the post tax income of labor as a result of globalization and especially globalization that leads to openness of financial markets and not just of trade.  For example, both the evidence and the theoretical logic to make it quite clear that union wage premia are driven down by the openness of the world financial system and that the ability of capital to move offshore really does pose limits on the wage-setting or wage-bargaining strategies of trade unions which are restrained in their wage demands by the higher elasticity of labor demand.  Similarly, I think that, overtime, the evidence would show that the burden of taxation falls increasingly on labor and less and less on capitol as a result of these changes given that taxation inevitably falls on the fixed factor and is, as inevitably, escaped by the highly mobile factor.  At the end of the day, the fact that labor cannot move into the low capital income taxation countries suggests that we will find in implicitly, both in terms of the incidence, and in terms of choice of tax system, a movement towards a heavier burden on labor taxation and away from capitol taxation and taxation of factor incomes.  Capital can still be taxed, not directly as a tax on capital, but indirectly through a tax on overall income or consumption.  For example, movements towards progressive consumption taxation may be constant and other mechanisms to tax capital income, if I am correct in assuming that the burden of the corporate income taxation is likely to diminish given the increased ability of the capital to escape taxation through international mobility.  This is purely conjectural because the data has yet to be closely examined, but is not inconsistent with existing evidence.  It is also true, I hasten that add, that the direct evidence of income going to capital as against labor in the national accounts shows modest, rather than large, shifts in the direction of the share of labor falling and that of capital rising.  My guess is that if one were to look at post tax capital and labor income, one would find this trend even more strongly evident in the data.

The third distributional shift is within labor itself, between skilled and unskilled workers.  Economic theory suggests that increased globalization will lower the relative wage of unskilled labor in the advanced countries and raise their relative wage of unskilled labor in the developing countries when these two groups began to trade with each other after a period of autarky.  This is the famous Stoker-Samuelson theorem, or rather an implication of it, or more correctly, of so-called factor price equalization.  We now find ourselves in a very odd situation with respect to this most standard and central of all economic theories in that many of the leading theorists who propound it doubt that it is actually applicable to present circumstances.  I have my doubts about their doubts.  After studying international trade theory, including factor price equalization, with Professor Bhagwathi, I confess that I cannot just dismiss it.  Although he contends that it does not apply at all to the international scene, my own feeling is that it does. 

To begin, let me mention quickly the major caveat to the theory.  If the developed and the developing countries have such unequal endowments-so much skilled labor in the advanced countries and so much unskilled labor in the developing countries-that they actually specialized, then factor price equalization cannot follow.  Indeed, and set cases of specialization, being outside the cone of factor price equalization would mean that the increased export capacity of the developing countries would simply raise all incomes in the developed countries by bringing in the goods in question more cheaply.  Thus, in terms of trade, the rich countries would enjoy an improvement that was a pure consumer gain for everyone.

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