In stress interview questions, stressful situation is created by the interviewers deliberately to appraise the candidates whether they can perform well under such a situation. Stress is a term used in physical science which is related to impact of one object on another. Higher is the impact, higher is stress level. This phenomenon is used in human life too. Stress interviews are still in common use. One type of stress interview is where the employer uses a succession of interviewers whose mission is to intimidate the candidate and keep him/her off-balance. The ostensible purpose of this interview: to find out how the candidate handles stress. Stress interviews might involve testing an applicant's behavior in a busy environment. Questions about handling work overload, dealing with multiple projects, and handling conflict are typical.
1. Do you consider standing in a line as stressed work?
2. Define stress and when do you get stressed out?
3. Are you able to work under stress?
4. Give us an example about you work with a team that faced stress from your experience?
5. What is the worst thing when you faced with stress?
6. Which transaction is not good for your colleagues whom also faced the stress at the same time?
7. How do you handle stress? What is the best thin or work you do when you are stressed out?
8. How do you handle rejection?
9. What is the worst thing that you have heard about our company?
10. Why are manhole covers round?
11. Why did you switch to political science? Is it because you couldn’t handle engineering? Why did you do so poorly on this test?
12. What kinds of people do you find it difficult to work with?
13. What are some of the things that you find difficult to do?
14. How would you evaluate me as an interviewer?
15. What interests you least about this job?
16. See this pen I’m holding? Sell it to me.
17. You need to work a full whole one month because of quarter results nearby what reason will you give to exempt from the work?
18. If you are a leader of the team, what could you do better than the truly leader?
19. What do you think that you have learned from it?
20. Would you like to have your boss’s job?
21. Why should I hire an outsider when I could fill the job with someone inside the company?
22. Why were you out of work for so long?
23. If you caught a student cheating on their test, what would you do?
24. How do you feel this interview is going?
25. How would you evaluate me as an interviewer?
26. What qualifications do you have that makes you think you will be successful?
27. Can you please jump from that window?
28. Long silence even after the entry of the candidate in the interview room.
29. Asking another question before the candidate completes the answer of the previous question.
30. Pretension through body language by the interviewers that they do not listen to what the candidate is saying but actually they might be listening attentively.
31. Criticizing the candidate’s views vehemently even though they may agree with these views.
32. Harassing the candidate with some activities which might not be conducive for congenial environment for the interview.
Tackling stress interview[/b]
1. Displaying a hostile attitude
2. Being aggressive or arrogant
3. Behaving in an uninterested manner
4. Avoiding eye contact
5. Interrupting during answers
6. Failing to “listen”
7. Taking notes
8. Taking long breaks – not speaking after answers
9. Asking irritating or ‘demanding’ questions
10. Disagreeing and arguing
11. Repeating the same questions
12. Asking sarcastically: “Is this your answer? Are you sure about that?”
13. Making you wait a long time before the interview starts
14. Always keep yourself cool and composed throughout these stressful interviews. Try to control your anger. Pause and take a few deep breaths while you think of an appropriate response.
15. Do not try to make an issue of the questions (even though they may be irrelevant and discriminatory). Make your answers concise and non-specific:
16. Clarify the question and the nature of the answer desired. This can buy you some time to think. What is the interviewer trying to get at? Don't be afraid to ask questions to get clarification; sometimes, this is exactly what's expected of you.
17. Communicate what you're thinking and doing. State assumptions, and ask for unknown information
18. Just remember that the purpose of the questions is mainly to test your response. The answers are not really important. Hence just focus on the way in which you're solving the problem. Don’t keep looking for the "right" answer.
19. Most importantly: Be yourself, Be open, Be honest and Be direct