[ACTIVITY] Soft Skills Questions You Could Be Asked During An Interview

Here are 29 sample behavioral-based interviewing questions that companies and organizations use to help assess a person’s leadership ability, teamwork and other soft skills.

Below the questions are two activities you can do with a group.

What are you thoughts about these questions?

Some of the questions can be tough to answer if you haven’t properly prepared for your interview and obviously, a few of these questions are only for people interviewing for  leadership or management positions. If you have any others to add, please let me know.

7 Online Soft Skills Quizzes

Where do you stand on your soft skills? If you are not sure, here are 7 quick and easy quizzes about a few of your soft skills.

Q & A: What Are Your Weaknesses?

Q: Al, I really enjoyed ur speech at the 4-H conference. u are funny! How do u answer the question “what are ur weaknesses?” when u r in an interview?

[VIDEO] How To Start Your Talk Or Speech

This is a video from my site for professional speakers, but there are great tips in here for anybody that has to give a speech, talk, or presentation of any type.

(HINT: If the video keeps starting and stopping, click “HD” to play in a slightly lower quality that will stream faster.)

(Original link) How To Start Your Talk or Speech – Great Pro Speakers Community Q&A

Introduce Yourself The Easy Way: Your Personal Brand Statement

“So, tell me a little bit about yourself. What do you do?”

Have you ever had to respond to a statement or question like that? I’ve actually been in that situation with thousands of young people the typical response I get is:

“Uhhhh…well…I uhhh…”

Not cool.

You will constantly be expected to respond to statements and questions about who you are and what you do, especially in interviews and networking situations. If you prepare something known as a personal brand statement and practice it, then you won’t be caught off guard. It’s an easy, professional way to introduce yourself.

Here are three simple steps for creating your personal brand statement:

Best and Worst Cities For Internships

 

Bundle just released a list of best and worst cities for internships. Did your city make the list?

The best and worst cities for unpaid internships

10 Most Attractive Employers for Young People 2010

Universum, an employer branding company, recently surveyed nearly 130,000 students at top academic institutions around the world and asked the students to chose their ideal companies to work for. The Millennials have spoken. Here are the top ten business and engineering employers:

BUSINESS

1. Google
2. KPMG
3. Ernst & Young
4. PricewaterhouseCoopers
5. Deloitte
6. Procter & Gamble
7. Microsoft
8. The Coca-Cola Company
9. J.P. Morgan
10. Goldman Sachs

ENGINEERING

1. Google
2. Microsoft
3. IBM
4. Sony
5. BMW
6. Intel
7. General Electric
8. Siemens
9. Procter & Gamble
10. Apple

The original lists include the top 100 attractive employers. Yo can read them here.