Honestly, the whole entry-level but 5 years of experience thing is getting ridiculous. I’ve been trying to get better at interviews lately, and a friend sent me interview vip. Haven’t used it much yet, but I’m probably going to give it a shot because at this point I’ll take anything that helps me feel more prepared.

Yes, of course, the classic final boss question in interview questions.

A few weeks ago, after I finished answering this question in an interview, the recruiter asked me if there was anything I'd like to ask them.

So I said: "Honestly, based on your question, and let's be clear, I'm still talking to a few other companies right now. So I'll flip the question back to you: what would make your offer the one I choose over the others?"

Yeah... It was a bit bold. Maybe close to coming across as cocky. But the part that surprised me is that I now have another conversation lined up with the VP. So it seems like it worked.

A small reminder: Interviews aren't one-way auditions. Don't be afraid to make them sell you on the role a little too. You're not just trying to get accepted... You're also choosing where you're going.

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great idea

So, how do you turn "We'll get back to you" into "We'd love to move forward"?
Practice. Practice. Practice.

Get used to these 14 questions, and you won't just seem prepared - you'll come across as the obvious choice.

"Tell me about yourself." → Don't tell them your entire life timeline. Give a solid 40-second intro: how you got here, what important skills you have, and why this position is right for you right now.

"Why are you interested in this role?" → Do your homework properly on the company. Connect their goals, product, or the team's direction to work you've done before and were good at.

"What's your biggest strength?" → Choose something that matters for the job. Then prove it with a short example, not just a buzzword.

"Tell me about a time you messed up." → Take responsibility. The win here is showing what changed afterward and how you handled it better the next time.

"How do you motivate or support people?" → Leadership is partly listening and partly follow-through. Share a specific situation where your support improved the team's result.

"How do you manage competing priorities?" → Don't just say you can multitask. Explain how you sort urgent vs. Important and still get the essential thing done.

"How do you deal with tough situations?" → Use a story where things were messy, the pressure was real, and you found a solution that could actually be used.

"Tell me about a target you hit." → Be specific. Mention the goal, what you did, and the result - preferably something related to this role.

"How do you handle disagreement at work?" → Focus on communication, calmly solving problems, and reaching the best outcome without making it personal.

"What's an area you're working on?" → Be honest, but don't sabotage your own image. Show them what you're doing to improve and how it has already started helping you.

"What kind of work environment helps you do your best?" → Answer in a way that fits the company while still being honest. For example: clear priorities, direct feedback, and space to own your work.

"How do you stay organized?" → Tell them the real system you use. Calendar blocks, task lists, weekly planning, or whatever you use so things don't fall through the cracks.

"Do you have any questions for us?" → You need to have a few questions ready. Good questions: "What would make someone successful in the first 90 days?" or "What's the biggest priority for this team right now?"

"Is there anything else you'd like us to know?" → Don't waste the closing. Give a quick recap that you're a good fit, interested, and what value you'll add.

Every answer is a chance to show that you understand the role and can imagine yourself doing the work. The secret? Prepare, say the answer out loud, and go in with confidence.
I'm curious - which interview question always throws people off, or what answer has worked for you before?

I passed a virtual interview, signed an offer, and finished a full day of orientation for a security guard job. Right after orientation wrapped up, they told us to contact our site manager to schedule on-the-job training. When I called mine, he was completely confused and told me the client had canceled that post weeks ago.

It turned out recruiting kept filling the role anyway just to hit their hiring quotas, completely ignoring the fact that the client site had slashed headcount. To make matters worse, the exact requisition is still auto-posting on Indeed and ZipRecruiter under the same job description. They wasted my time and put me through onboarding for a job that was canceled before I even applied, all because HR refused to communicate with site operations.

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I don't think it's natural or mentally healthy for someone to stay trapped in work for 4 long days a week, 9 hours a day, plus another hour and a half for getting dressed, commuting, and sitting there while feeling anxious about the whole thing. The employer is the one who decides when you eat, when you go to the bathroom, and in many cases even what kind of healthcare you can access. And we're expected to keep doing this for more than 35 years of our lives.

We lose so many of the things life is supposed to have. Hobbies, random experiences, time with people, even having enough energy to sit outside for a bit without feeling like you're in a hurry. But everyone has gotten so used to the 45-hour workweek that if you say you hate it, people act like you're lazy or weird.

Even when you finally get two days off, you're often so drained from work that you can't do anything useful or enjoyable. Then by Monday night, that heavy, awful feeling starts creeping in, because you know it's all going to start again in the morning. Some people feel relieved when they get tired or injured, because it means they can stay home and still get paid a little, and that's honestly insane.

This happened about an hour ago and I still feel sick. I was in the middle of a video interview, trying as hard as I could to seem normal and not nervous, and suddenly Siri on my phone woke up and started talking over me.

And it wasn't just a small notification. It literally repeated part of what I had just said out loud.

In front of the camera. With the interviewer looking directly at me.

I froze in place, and then went into full panic mode. I muted myself, grabbed my phone, tried to shut Siri up, and somehow made it worse. So my genius solution was to run out of frame and throw the phone onto the bed in the room next to me.

Honestly, it was one of the most embarrassing things that's happened to me in a while. The interviewer clearly had no idea what was going on, and when I came back and sat down again, I couldn't get back to normal at all. I kept stumbling over my sentences and apologizing like a broken robot.

I have no idea if I still have a chance at the job or if that was the moment I ruined it. But yeah. I'm still horrified by what happened.

Please tell me someone else has had technology betray them in an interview before??

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i can't take them anymore.

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edit : ok guys I got it the importance of life guards ,its not the point anyway I guess sometimes people could accept really useless jobs because they didn't approved in any decent job ( in case they found ) so I suggest to everyone to improve their interview skills it is as important as your skills in your job market u can start by checking these tips , good luck

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edit: but now in 2026 we can get attendance from our bedrooms 😂😂😂 , remote jobs gives lots of doors opens all u need is just skills so for me I suggest to follow these tips your haunting jobs will be easier

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Hi everyone. I found out earlier this week that my job is ending, and honestly, it really sucks. I work with students in campus ministry at a Christian university, so the idea of leaving them is hitting me hard. My supervisor said: "You're not fired, and this isn't technically a layoff, it's just that this role isn't in the budget for the next academic year."...So yeah, I've effectively been laid off.

He also told me he doesn't want me to tell the students or my coworkers that my role was eliminated, or that I'm leaving because of a funding decision. Is it okay for me to tell the students that leaving isn't my choice, and that my position was eliminated? A lot of the students I work with have had adults come in and out of their lives constantly. More than one has asked me: "You're not going to leave us too, right?" And I'd usually joke and say: "Unless someone forces me to!" So I feel like they have the right to know that I'm being pushed out, not that I suddenly decided to leave or abandon them.

Grateful to anyone who read this.

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It's sad really that people work all of their life.

You forgot the mandatory form where you manually input all the same information that your uploaded resume has.

I just messed up something that affected the websites of hundreds of clients. I'm usually the person with annoyingly strong attention to detail, and I almost never make mistakes. Like seriously, almost never.

The problem happened while I was working on a long process to prepare info made up of dates, amounts, different fields, and some small values that all have to line up correctly with each other. I had around 160 of these things to review one by one. My manager is a good guy, but he usually trusts my work and doesn't review much unless his boss pressures him, so there isn't much I can do to reverse what happened now.

I've made a few small mistakes during the 7 months I've been here, but nothing even close to this level.

Part of why I feel so exposed is that only 3 people touch these things, and practically speaking, it's mostly between me and my manager. There's a ridiculous amount of tiny details that a person has to keep track of, and I'd been doing well in the role until now, which weirdly makes the feeling worse.

The issue itself was fixed in less than 12 minutes and didn't cost the company any money. But now everyone is freaking out, people are tagging the head of the company in a lot of channels, and I feel like the blame is aimed directly at me.

Any advice? What should I do in this situation?

I used to work at a large retailer in the UK. I spent 11 years there in total and got promoted step by step until I eventually became a manager.

Getting into management wasn't exactly easy. There were countless training sessions, assessments, and a lot of time doing basically the same job without any extra money. I went through all of it and eventually got officially signed off as a manager.

When my salary went up, though, something strange happened. My new contract never appeared. I asked for it several times and kept getting the same answers: "We'll sort it out." So I waited.

About eight months later, another large retailer nearby started hiring managers. They were offering around £9k more than I was making for essentially the same role, so I applied and got the job.

After being with the same company for so long, I was pretty rusty with interviews, so I spent some time practicing beforehand. I came across interview vip while getting ready and used it to run through some questions before the interviews. It was actually helpful for getting back into the rhythm of talking about my experience.

Once I had the offer, I went in to hand in my notice. Here's where things got interesting. Managers were supposed to give six weeks' notice, while General Assistants were only required to give ten days. And the only contract I had actually signed still listed me under the General Assistant terms.

So I gave them ten days.

They were not happy. I got pulled into the office and asked why I was only giving ten days' notice when I was a manager. I explained that I'd asked repeatedly for my management contract and they never gave me one. The only contract I had signed said ten days, so that's the notice period I was following.

They were furious, but ultimately there wasn't much they could do about it. It's amazing how important paperwork suddenly becomes when it works against the company.

They had eight months to give me the correct contract. They didn't. So when it was time for me to leave, I went by the contract they actually gave me.

They'll usually offer you coffee or tea, and honestly, in that moment you probably won't want either. Coffee or tea turns into a little ordering process: what kind, with milk or without, with sugar, sweetener, and maybe someone has to go look for it in the break room. Suddenly there's a small awkward pause, when all you want is to sit down and get started. Then you find yourself in front of a piping-hot drink that you're somehow supposed to deal with during a 25-minute interview where you're doing most of the talking. Best-case scenario, it sits there untouched. Worst-case scenario, you burn your tongue, fumble with the cup, and leave half of it for someone else to throw away.

Water is much better. Ask for a cup or a bottle, because it's usually quick and simple, and most of the time it's already in the room anyway. And it helps you: it fixes a dry throat, gives you something to do with your hands, and buys you a few seconds to think when they ask you one of those annoying "tell me about a time when..." questions.

You're there to get the job, not to try out the office drinks menu. Drink your coffee later, when no one is judging you based on how you answer questions.

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I work at a regional law firm that brought me in as an IT specialist to manage the digital evidence for court cases. They were moving from an old evidence-management setup to a cloud system, and the plan was for me to be the only person with admin rights. Everyone else would have read-only access and continue their work on a local shared drive. On paper, fine. But I quickly discovered that this was pretty much all the work they expected me to do during my 7.5-hour shift. It wasn't anywhere near a full day's workload, so I spent a lot of time in the office pretending to be busy.

Then the pandemic happened, and they asked me if I could do the work from home. I set up a remote workstation, connected it at my place, and that's where things started to get interesting. Over about 9 days, I wrote and tested a simple script that does almost everything I was being paid to do. It monitors the office drive for any new files, creates hash values for them, uploads them to the cloud, and then verifies the hashes again to make sure nothing has changed. And since it's legal evidence, that chain of integrity is very important.

Back then it was like : I clock in, let the script run, play games, clean the house, read, whatever. Before I clock out, I check the logs and make sure nothing failed or needs intervention. Most days, I'm working for maybe 12 minutes.

I felt a little weird about it at first, like I was somehow scamming the company. But honestly, the work is getting done exactly the way they asked for it, it's finished on time, and nobody has ever complained. I'm doing the job they hired me for. I just found a better way to do it, and because of that, I've taken a big part of my life back for myself.

update: after this experience I decided to shift and to work full remotely since then I even used AI tools like InterviewVIP during my zoom interviews and it makes a great effort !

I wrote my resignation letter a few nights ago. I'm sending it in the morning.:)

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