Elno Yusuf Shugana

1210141044

3D4 Telkom B

Assertive Responses In the Interview

1. Interviewer asks you a series of questions that require detailed answers
but gives you little opportunity to set out what you have to offer. What
would you be most likely to do?
- Answer the questions, but say that you would like to add some
information that you considered to be more directly supporting your
application
2. You find yourself in a discussion with the interviewer, whose disapproval
is clearly mounting as the discussion becomes an argument. What would
you be most likely to do?
- Break off the argument while you can still be calm and friendly saying
that the discussion is obviously not leading to agreement
3. The interviewer keeps asking closed questions that can easily be
answered with a single word. What would you be most likely to do?
- Expand your answers, so that you provide more information in support
of your application than the questions demand
4. It seems to you that the interviewer has a dominating personality. What
would you be most likely to do?
- Speak up and say what you mean in as straightforward a way as you
can manage
5. The interviewer makes a congratulatory comment on a post of
responsibility that you occupied on a student committee. What would you
be most likely to do?
- Accept the compliment with a brief indication of pleasure
6. The interviewer -for some personal reason that they explain to you- is
upset. You feel a little unsettled by this. What would you be most likely to
do?
- Show your embarrassment and attempt to soothe the interviewers
distress by minimizing the cause
7. The interviewer asks you a technical question, to which you do not know
the precise answer, since your course did not cover this field in any
detail. What would you be most likely to do?
- Say that your course did not cover this subject and that you do not
know the answer, but go on to offer a probable answer based on logic,
limited knowledge and common sense.
8. The interviewer becomes very aggressive, raises their voice and makes
remarks you consider insulting. What would you be most likely to do?
- You shrink back in your chair or beat a hasty retreat to the door.
9. You feel extremely nervous at an interview, and you are quite sure that
your nervousness is apparent to the interviewer. What would you be most
likely to do?
- Admit to your nervousness with as much good humour as you can
muster adding a very brief explanation: such as that the situation is
uniquely unfamiliar and that the outcome of the interview is very
important to you.

Elno Yusuf Shugana

1210141044

3D4 Telkom B

10. The interviewer asks an hypothetical question: what would you do in a

given situation under certain specified circumstances? The situation and
the circumstances are so far fetched as to seem both confusing and
ludicrous. What would you be most likely to do?
- Allow the interviewer to see your perplexity but not your amusement
in the hope that they will take pity on you and help you out.
11. You are invited by the interviewer to say whether you agreed with the
employer's policy as set out in the information that was sent to you
before the interviewer. You had not been happy with all you read. What
would you be most likely to do?
- Praise the policy statement adding that you did not feel that your
endorsement was really significant.
12. The interviewer invites you to agree that your course was an easy
option. You are offended by the suggestion. What would you be most
likely to do?
- Say in as even a tone as you can manage and without demonstrating
the anger you may feel that you are offended by the suggestion, and
give a reasoned assessment of the difficulty of the course.