Interview Advice & Sample Questions

Our recruitment consultants are in daily contact with IT employers, receiving feedback from interviews that have taken place with Just IT candidates as well as finding out the latest market information. We pass this valuable expertise on to our candidates through intensive 1-to-1 interview preparation and we cannot emphasize enough the importance of getting it right on the day.

Confidence is vital when applying for a job and is best achieved through good preparation. Most importantly you should have a very clear understanding of your
selling points and how best to market these skills at the interview.

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How To Answer Interview Questions

There are a number of key factors that need to be considered when answering
questions in an interview, these are listed below:

• Structure
• Detail
• Dates / numbers / qualifications
• Examples
• Relevance
• Don’t waffle
• Focused and precise

All of the above points may seem obvious but few candidates apply all of them to their interview technique. In order to help you put these tips into context, we’ve listed some classic interview questions below. If you would like to see how we recommend going about answering these questions, please download our free 5 minute Interview Tips PDF.

Sample Interview Questions

We’ve split these sample questions into 2 sections - general questions (about yourself and your career) and technical questions (testing your technical knowledge). Don’t worry if you don’t know how to answer these, our interview advice PDF will help and we cover both the general and technical areas of interview preparation in depth as part of the Network Professional Programme.

General questions:

• Tell me about yourself?
• What are you strengths & weaknesses?
• What do you know about our company?
• Where do you see yourself in five years time?
• What can you offer us?
• What things do you most enjoy doing in your current job?
• What important trend do you see coming in your industry?
• In your last company what were the things that you liked most and liked least?

Technical Questions

• If somebody was unable to log on to the network what would you do?
• How could you set up a new Cisco router using the settings of a remote router?
• How would you describe database?
• What is a network?
• What is the largest size of a DOS partition?
• What does DHCP stand for and its function?
• How do you create new users on NT?
• How do you make a file read only?
• How do you log on NT workstation?

Download our 5 minute interview tips PDF to see the answers to these classic interview questions!