I need help...How would you answer these questions for a job interview?

Honesty is always the best policy.

Maybe it would be more helpful to you if you tell us your answers, fluther provides feedback on your answers. Questions like this are designed to give a glimpse into your thought processes. There is not a correct answer, but there is a best way to answer.

@holden is right, if we give you all the answers, then they wont know how you would’ve responded, and we’re not the ones being interviewed. Plus you would have to give each of us a cut from your check.

Just answer truthfully, be relaxed and confident, are you qualified for the job?
also, are you interviewing to be an interviewer? because that would make for one high pressure interview…

+1 for @PandoraBoxx yeah, let’s hear some of your answers.

I agree with @PandoraBoxx, if you give us your answers we can help you polish them. That would be better than just getting our answers to these questions, since if you’re saying what you believe you’ll be more confident. Good luck on the interview!

Or if you can’t come up with an answer on your own try these:

-Favorite place in chicago: if the person interviewing you is portly suggest a famous steak house, if they have a little redness in the eyes and a slightly haggard look.. suggest a famous bar. Otherwise wrigley field or something.

-Changed someone’s mind: “I told them that if they didn’t see things my way i would tell @augustlan and they would be very very sorry….. very”

-Polite: Anything that does not get @augustlan mad… she will end you.

(In all honesty… these questions really are a sort of window into your personality, they say a lot about your interactions skills and your approach to given situations, as well as your personality which i’m sure is like a shinny new penny. Just try us out as a sounding board for whatever you have and we’ll help polish it a bit).

I must go now…. @augustlan be praised….. (i’ll be good… i promise!)

Yup. Tell the fluther what you’d say, and it can give you feedback. Our answers won’t be usable.

As for my own answers, since you did ask for interest’s sake.
* I don’t have one favorite place in Chicago. I like the stone blocks along the lake in Hyde Park (great for picnics in various weather – I’ve been in frozen freeze, spring, wind storms…), and the observation decks on the Sears Tower and Hancock building (Hancock is nicer and less annoying but Sears is taller), The University of Chicago campus, the places that show interesting old movies…
* I find it’s most effective not to try to change someone’s mind, which usually gets in the way, and makes it more likely they will become more flexible and change their own mind.
* Polite to me means behaving in a way that puts others’ needs, convenience and pleasure first, and letting them be right and dictate the pace and direction of an interaction if they want to. So to be polite in a business telephone call, I would invite and only proceed when and how the other person was willing to.

well I wanted to hear from you guys too. like for the second question, it’s a personal situation that’s happened to you.
I’ve been away from this site too long. i forgot the seriousness in here sometimes….
EDITED TO ADD:also, the first one, idk how many have been to chicago but that might be interesting to hear about from others as well.

1) this one’s just to loosen your tongue, they really don’t care what you like in Chicago

2) make something up if you have to but construct a scenario where an irrate custome wanted to you to hear out their complaint about the company and you listened patiently, genuinely, apologized for what upset them and offered to try and make it right by your efforts or by asking your higher up to come hear what the customer had to say.

3) polite means non mechanical, genuine, patient and courteous without being overly chatty.

@amoreno06, LOL nice use of #2 in trying to turn the question around from the “I need help” in the orginal question, to “I really just for fun want to hear your stories.” You should do fine on the interview!!!!

The purpose of these types of questions from an interviewer perspective:
#1. Relax you, and find out a little bit about how you think, personality, etc.
#2. Can you be persuasive, get a “no” back to a “yes”. This is not a skill everyone has, and if the position has anything to do with sales, it is helpful if this is a natural trait.
#3. Courteousness and customer service are important for this position. Do you have a natural understanding of what politeness means? Many people do not.

@PandoraBoxx i wasn’t trying to turn anything around. but thanks.