While being interviewed for a job you really hope to be offered, the interviewer asks you about your ethnic background. What is the most effective way for you to handle the question?
a. Refuse to answer because it is your legal right to do so.
b. Attempt to answer the primary concern that motivated the question.
c. Answer it to be polite and take your chances with the effects it may have.
d. Let the interviewer know by changing the subject that you know the question is illegal and you do not intend to answer it.
Ques. 2Indicate the correct form of the verb in parentheses. Connie (past tense of jog) 7 miles yesterday.
Ques. 3Which of the following statements about employment interviews is correct?
a. The applicant can find out everything he needs to know about the company at the interview.
b. A self-analysis of your own strengths, weaknesses, accomplishments, and challenges should be undertaken prior to interviewing.
c. An applicant should ask relatively few questions at the interview and let the interviewer do the questioning.
d. Most questions asked in interviews can be answered from the rsum.
Ques. 4Indicate the correct form of the verb in parentheses. Eric (past tense of admit) the mistake to his supervisor.
Ques. 5The first few seconds of an interview
a. are of little importance as the applicant is just settling in for the exchange of information.
b. are not noticed by the interviewer who is preparing for the questions to be asked.
c. are vitally important, as the interviewer forms an impression of the applicant that is difficult to change.
d. are the only part of the interview that really matter to the interviewer.
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