Excerpted from From
Here to There by Larry Stuenkel
These questions
are similar to what you can expect during a real interview. Being
prepared will enable you to think on your feet.
The suggested replies, excerpted from From Here to There
by Larry Stuenkel, aren't intended to give you one correct answer.
Rather, the answers should reflect your personal frame of reference,
based on your motives, goals, work skills and aspirations. The replies
are meant to stimulate your thinking, not to be memorized.
Q: Are there any reasons why you cannot arrive on time and stay
at work all day on a regular basis?
This is a technique for an interviewer to ask questions that border
on the illegal. This question could be asked to find out if the
applicant is a mother and might have problems with children and
therefore would not be able to be at work all the time. If you are
woman, this is a way to probe to see if you might be planning a
family.
It's also a way to "force" applicants to identify any health problems
or other types of extenuating circumstances that would prevent them
from being on time and at work on a regular basis.
Be careful with this question — just basically say, "No, there
are no problems."
