What is your greatest achievement?
Give an example of where you used leadership skills?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
If you were trapped in a 1000 story Tower that was 10,560 Feet tall with the only way out at the top what would you do?
Ali groaned at his laptop in frustration. For the third time that morning he had the urge to throw it across his living room. He had been sat at his desk for hours but only managed to write his name down, he just couldn’t get the words out. He pushed himself away from his desk to contemplate.
What is your Greatest Achievement Ali looked back on his life he had never been active in any sports or extra curricular activities. Ali would spend his days after school gaming or scrolling through social media. “Completing this application without shooting myself”, Cant write that Ali pressed the erase key The first person in my first family to graduate university Ali wrote the title of course already belonged to his 1 year older brother Mustafa who graduated at the top his class with all the honors and while there made such an impact that he received a letter of commendation from the dean at his graduation ceremony typical Mustafa excels wherever he goes.
Give me an example of where you used leadership skills. Why do these companies always try to recruit James Bond, The only leadership skills that Ali could think of was when he witnessed Mustafa leading the school’s tragic football team to their first win in years. A smallest of smiles broke free from the corner's of Ali’s mouth as he shamelessly plagiarized his older brothers life.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years. What would the golden boy say Ali thought for a minute before writing ”I’d really like to master this role, and in five years, I’d be interested in [managing a team, being the process owner, leading a project, being the go-to expert in this area of the company
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If you were trapped in a thousand story tower that was 10,560 feet tall with the only way out at the top what would you do. This is probably one of those dumb hypothetical questions they ask to see how you think Ali thought “I would climb to the top no matter how long it took” Ali wrote “Im getting quite good at this impersonation.” He chuckled to himself.
The application was supposed to be due at Midnight but he finished early.He had only finished university a few short weeks ago graduating with a 2:2 Ali winced remembering his parents disappointed faces when he told them. He originally wanted to be an apprentice mechanic he always liked working with his hands but his parents pushed him to go to university. Growing up it was always Mustafa this Mustafa that, why cant you join the school football team like Mustafa, why cant you get good grades like Mustafa. He was always the apple of their eye, could do no wrong always bragging about him to relatives often while Ali stood right there shrinking further into his shadow”Now im £44,000 in debt applying to any job on the net, still in his shadow while their precious Mustafa is doing a government graduate scheme”.
Ali slammed the enter key sending off his application. “Another company that wont get back to me” he said while running his fingers through his short dark hair. “Why do I even bother ill never measure up to him” he sighed. When his pity party was Suddenly interrupted by the unmistakable pinging sound that could only have come from his Gmail account, he opened his inbox seeing the subject line at the top “Indeed Application: Offer Confirmation The Citadel”.Ali paused briefly before opening the message.“So this is what its like being the golden boy”
“Hi Ali Mohamed, Congratulations on being successful! We are really pleased to welcome you to our little family here at the citadel we want your start with us to be enjoyable so please read on."
Start date: Immediate upon accepting offer
Contract: Permanent
Working hours: Every waking moment
Please ensure you bring the following with you
- Heart
- Determination
- Resolve
I am looking forward to getting you started and introducing you to the team!
King regards
Rafael Zola
Internal Recruiter, Citadel
+44(0) 1384 235346345 (T), UK
[email protected]
I Accepg the offer I am no longer interested