Interview

QUESTION 1: Tell me about yourself.

My name is I am a student at the University of Guelph. I am currently working towards my Bachelor of Commerce degree in Hotel and Food Administration. While attaining my degree, I have developed strong communication skills through presentation assignments as well as working customer service at my part-time job, Cineplex Entertainment. I’ve also developed strong commitment to team environment dynamics with the ability to contribute expertise and follow leadership directives at appropriate time. I’ve also possess strong lead leadership capabilities through past experience of being the School treasurer and graduating class valedictorian. Lastly, I have past experience in drama as I’ve partook in drama courses throughout my high-school years, as well as been in various one-act plays and was the director of my very own one act-play.

QUESTION 2: Tell me a time when you undertook a specific task which was a challenge for you.

There was a time in which my entire family went on a vacation together to our home country, Palestine. This is the first time in a long time that we’ve been together thus we planned this entire trip to go around different cities. I decided to be the coordinator, so I was in charge of finding a coach bus, accumulating the expenses for food as well as creating the route for our destination. I was under a lot of stress but with help from families and my determination the trip was very successful and most importantly everyone had fun.

QUESTION 3: Can you provide an example that demonstrates your ability to organize when you have multiple tasks to accomplish?

For sure! Well there was a time where I had 2 midterms in the same week, along with other assignments and online quizzes and on top of that I also had work commitment. In order to be prepared for the stressful week ahead of me, I decided to use my agenda that has a calendar and write out when everything is due. This gave me a clear picture of what needed to...