Food Service Manager Mock Interview
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Question 26 of 30
Rate your listening skills from 1-10. What would your coworkers say about your listening skills?
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"I spend my day listening to my professors, taking notes in numerous lectures. I have trained myself in the art of active listening and would rate my listening skills as an 8/10. My fellow students often thank me for listening so well because it helps them when I offer free tutoring sessions or when I lead a group project."
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
The interviewer would like to know how you rate your listening skills overall. Avoid giving yourself a 10, as nobody is perfect, and you do not want to come across as someone who does not strive to grow. Alternately, avoid giving yourself too little credit. You do not want to paint the picture that you are a terrible listener! Stay in the 7.5-9.5 range and back your rating with a comment you have received from a coworker recently.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"I am certainly not perfect so that I will rate myself an 8.5/10 for listening skills. I could be more present at times, especially when a conversation with a coworker seems to be trivial. I think my current boss would rate me around the same, if not a bit higher. I do have a penchant for recalling small details of a conversation, which seems to impress him quite often."
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I think they would say I am good.
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Can you support your claim in some way? Has a manager ever complimented you in a review or just regularly about your listening skills? Are there any examples you can cite of a time when you listened well and it helped you be compassionate or solve a problem? The more details you can give, the better!
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