During your career, you will encounter this golden job interview question, at least once or maybe multiple times. But the answer would be different at different stages of your career. We will try to help you build the best possible answer for this sample interview question. There are three important elements you need to understand, before crafting an answer for this job interview question. Firstly, you need to understand the intent of the recruiter behind this question. Secondly, what all parameters you should consider, and lastly how can you frame a perfect answer by mapping your goals with the new role. Let’s see how can we craft the best solution.
1) Sample Interview Question & Answer – Why do companies ask this question?
Any company conducting an interview is interested in knowing what you’re bringing to the table, what is your value. They already have your resume in front of them, they know all the things you’ve done. But this is a way to know how much you know about your capabilities, and how you express yourself. Of course, they expect you to talk about the respective field as well so that they may see how well you know about the work, and what other extra elements will you provide them with. But focus on the word “value” here, because of that where people are interested in listening.
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2) Sample Interview Question & Answer – What all the points you should consider before preparing your answers?
As we mentioned, you have to showcase your value to the potential employer, but how can you do that? Value can be segregated into 5 different areas and you can see where all you have created the impact.
- Industry experience – State any or all important or long term experiences you’ve gained over the years. You could have gained expertise in multiple industries, so it’s important to highlight that as well.
- Domain experience – Specify which domain or department within the previous organizations you worked for, as in an operations expert, a marketing person, part of the sales team, or with IT. Showcase your best projects, to establish your domain expertise.
- Leadership – This is a crucial element and a great value add to any organization. Talk about any projects, big or small, that you have led, and how successful it has been. Mention the challenges faced by as a leader and how you overcame them. Talking confidently about it gets you bonus points.
- Certifications – Your value increases if they get to know your competency level. You can also express your value through a variety of certifications or courses. For example, Having a PMP certificate can be quite helpful for a project management role.
- Cultural fit – Now, this is slightly different and difficult to gauge. You really have to do detailed research on your potential employer, so that you can find the right connection for the cultural fit. For example, organizations you’re applying to, usually thrive on innovation and You aren’t new to it, having done similar things in the past. To highlight these accomplishments, proving how both of you are a good fit for each other.
Base your answers on these and try to find, according to your background, where you have the most value and talk more about that. It could be one of these or a combination of a couple of points.
3) Sample Interview Question & Answer – How should you design your career?
Here you have 3 basic steps to follow to give the perfect answers:
- It’s beneficial to do your own analysis at this point, crafting your accomplishments, writing them in a specific format.
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- Next up, know the company. You should go through the job description carefully and understand your duties. Do your research on the firm that you’re applying to, know who runs the company, their products, and services, try to understand the flow of the office, connect with the people on LinkedIn, talk to them about the company’s culture, and reflect on whether you fit their or not.
- Now, this is easy – map the previous steps. Check whether the things you’ve done are also required for the new role, so you may highlight the specific accomplishments to get you the job. For example, if you’ve executed lots of projects in operations in your previous organization, which is also a requirement for the new firm, go ahead and highlight that. If you’ve run a very big training or development program at your previous firm, you can always highlight this as a bonus, proving to them that you bring this added value to their company.
- The idea is first to map the right value, which will be beneficial for the new role, and secondly, mention the extra value through any of your skills that you will bring in to the new firm. Both things should be supported by the right examples.
Keeping these steps in mind will help you to craft an answer to this sample interview question, and also help you understand your worth and your accomplishments.
We hope this is going to be helpful if you are preparing for any job or college interview. For more guidance, feel free to connect with us and provide your feedback as well, so that we can also improve in the future.
We have also answered a few more questions such as Why do you want to join our company? What is your weakness? What are your strengths? Interview tips etc. Feel free to go through them as well.
