How to Face Job Interview in English

September 15, 2006

I received lots of email from Indonesian fellows who ask for advice to get a job outside the country. Well, first of all, the company where you want to work for should know that you exist. I won’t discuss how to get there. I just want to share some tips how to face job interview, the next step in getting the job, in english.

You want to work abroad, don’t you? So expect to get the job interview in english. Unless the company insists to use some other language, english is the most common language that is used during the interview.

There is nothing to worry about when you have job interview in english, either in face-to-face meeting or over the phone. The secret is: you have to practice how to answer the questions.
As you may have already noticed, most job interviews share common questions like:
- describe yourself
- why you want to quit from current job
- what are you looking for in the new job
- your strongest and weakest points, etc

Write down the list of questions that may come up during the interview and practice to answer them in english. I used to practice while driving. It will make you look silly by talking to yourself, but it’s worth to try. You will get used to answer the question and when the real interview comes you should be able to handle it without any problem.

I have been in so many job interview, with native and non-native speakers, and believe me answering technical questions is much easier than the questions listed above. Maybe because we have already got used to read books and reference written in english so we can qoute from there in our answers.

So keep practicing.
You never know, you may get unexpected phone interview anytime.

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  1. terima kasih atas sharingnya Pak!

    Comment by islamet — September 17, 2006 @ 6:22 am

  2. yoih… jawab pertanyaan teknikal, walaupun lewat TELEPON sekalipun lebih GAMPANG dari pada jawab “Please describe your self” *sigh*

    Comment by Azil — September 18, 2006 @ 4:33 am

  3. Thanks for your inspiring writings…

    Currently I am a fresh graduate working at system integrator and Cisco Silver Certified Partner (Packet Systems). Your writings keep my learning spirits ON! :D

    May I put your blog’s link at mine?

    Comment by sigit — October 13, 2006 @ 7:24 pm

  4. Thanks for Suggestion which will really help me, right now i am going to write the questions and will prepare there answer for the interview.

    Comment by BACHHAN GIRI — April 6, 2008 @ 12:03 pm

  5. thanks for this help , tomarrow i am going for intervewe ,really i dont know tahts thing thanks for it

    Comment by mohd raza uddin — May 31, 2008 @ 4:14 pm

  6. as a good

    Comment by akram — September 15, 2008 @ 12:44 pm

  7. i have to face interview with leasing company

    Comment by asanga — December 1, 2008 @ 9:51 pm

  8. i want to practice my English especially for job interview,

    because my final test is: how to face job interview??

    so thank you for the tips!!!

    Comment by amox — December 21, 2008 @ 9:50 pm

  9. Hi, All, i am also like you all, getting idea from variouse source on how to face a job interview. i hope it would be enable me to face me any kind of job interview.

    Thanking you

    siva

    Comment by Siva — August 10, 2009 @ 2:52 pm

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