So I am 23 years old and i have been to many interviews for many different positions and here are some interview questions which have stumped me, how would you answer these.
What is your management style?
Tell me about a time when you lacked the skills to perform your job?
What are some misconceptions about you?
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For the first one, I would say: "I understand that probably the biggest part of being a manager is being able to get work done through other people. I also believe that being a manager is when I can be effective at getting people to work together, when I can get people to perform at a top tier level." And I'm not just saying that to sound good either. It's very true. Anyone who's ever worked under somebody before knows this is a fact.
Depending on who you speak too, one of the most common misconceptions about management in business is that being a manager is the same thing as being a disciplinary. This is so not true. In fact, a good manager will be more focused on again, getting work done through others efficiently and competently. You will want your employees to respect you, but at the same time you're going to want them to enjoy working with you because that is when they truly will perform best. If your style of "management" is finding error in every single thing a person does, that employee will not profit you as much. Plain and simple. To be truthful, anybody who disagrees is probably not worth working for anyways because they're going to have the same crappy style of management.
The second one is what managers refer to as, a "trick question".
They suck for people who aren't good at being put on the spot, but they can also be a good way to make yourself look good if you know what to do in this situation. They're questions where you have to be honest with the interviewee about your flaws. It's the same thing as getting asked, "what's your biggest weakness?" This comes across as a question where you have to talk negatively about yourself, but my answer to that would be "I'm impatient, and I'm a perfectionist by nature. Even more so when it comes to my standards/quality of work. I don't believe in procrastinating, I like to get work done in a timely matter, and I make sure that it gets done right when I do it."
So maybe figure out a way to answer that question properly but at the same time, you want to make yourself look competent and intelligent. Don't say something like "I don't work well under pressure." That is not at all the answer your interviewee is looking for.
Third question is another trick question. It makes it seem like the interviewee wants you to say something negative about yourself, but you could simply say "My previous co-workers would often joke that I was antisocial, when in reality I would just be very focused, preoccupied and deep into my work. Honestly, because of that,I didn't have tons of free time to socialize quite as much as everyone else did" or something along those lines.
Learn to work with questions like these. They're annoying, but good opportunities for you to make yourself really stand out.
Good luck my friend.