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1. Tell me about yourself Im from Costa Rica. Ive been living here for 35 years. Im a person who likes to travel, to learn and to meet people. Im a dynamic and a reliable person who likes to take the initiative. I like working in teams, facing new challenges and taking opportunities. That helps me undertaking with my work. 2. Tell me about your experience I have more than 8 years of experience working for some engineering private firms. In the last 5 years, Ive been working on my own by professional service contracts for some companies. My current job has provided me stability, a good work environment and specially, it has given me the opportunity to continue studying and it has permitted me to obtain a second career as a Technical in the Cisco Network Support and IT area. As the case if you hire me I would like to put my professional knowledge at your service and thus to continue growing professionally. 3. What is your most important accomplishment to date? 4. Describe a situation in which you were successful. It happened when I was chosen as supervisor and leader for a work team, where we obtained the first qualification place, over other teams with more experience in the company. I think, we were be able to achieve this goal due to the our good communication, devotion and hard work. 5. Describe a challenge you faced in a work environment and how you overcame it. When I was in charge of a work team I realized that the group had no experience. So I had to put things in order. I had to teach them how to do their job. This motivated me to lose the fear solving unexpected situations in which sometimes youre not trained. 6. Would you rather to work with information or with people? In my opinion I would rather to work with both because are important. You should never say no to any specific job. In my current job Ive learned to listen to people. I always answering calls, taking notes and replaying emails. There are certain jobs where I only have information to work. But I know that this information have to be manipulated carefully and responsibly, because ultimately it could be used by anyone to solve something important. 7. Are you a team player? Yes, I am. I always like to be willing to help out and be supportive.

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8. Tell me about some of your recent goals and what you did to achieve them. In the last years I have managed to increase my income, productivity and speed when I have to deliver some work. I have achieve them with perseverance and hard work. This has allowed me to continue studying and learning. 9. What are your short-term goals? Improve professionally in all aspects. In other words to increase my professional value getting experience in the telecommunications network area and continue increasing my English language level. 10. Do you handle conflict well? 11. How do you handle stress? Yes, I do. I try to analyze the situation being positive and addressing problems efficiently and effectively. 12. Have you ever had a conflict with a boss or professor? How did you resolve it? Yes, I had. I had a conflict with a boss, because the accounting department didnt pay me salary. Curiously, as soon as I tried to talk with my boss, he was being fired. So, I resolved my salary problem, personally speaking with the administration department who were the ones the hired me for the job. 13. What is your greatest strength? I am a committed person. I have a positive attitude and I accept criticism for learning. 14. What is your greatest weakness? I am very demanding of myself. I strongly defend my position if I'm right and I dont like the co-workers who cop out ( avoid responsibilities ). 15. Why would you be a good candidate for this job? I think this is your decision, what I can tell you is that I am a committed person, I am willing to help you in everything I can and I really want to start. 16. Why are you interested in this job? Because you are a growing company and that generates new opportunities. Also, you have an excellent reputation and a good work team. 17. Why did your live your last job? Due to that my job expectations changed, I needed more academic training and to grow professionally.

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18. When would you be available to work? Whats is your schedule like? The sooner the better, I am willing to any work schedule, but if it were not the case it would be fine to start in a couple of days to organize my new professional life. 19. How much do you expect to get paid? Prior to discussing salary. Id like to know more about the responsibilities and the challenges of the job.

Questions for the boss 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What do you demand from your employees? How and when do you give feedback to employees? What are the other team members like? What qualities make people on your team successful? How often do you interact with the people who work for you? Why did you join this company, and whats kept you here?