Other Common Straightforward Questions

For other straightforward questions, you’ll want to use your skills
lists and Q statements that you prepared earlier in the book. For
example, looking back at your skills arsenal:

1. Do you remember your general skills list by heart so that you can recall them in the interview?
2. Do you have a good command over your personal traits list so that you can supply examples of them to the interviewer?
3. Do you remember your list of three competencies, and do you have anecdotes to support them all?
4. Finally, do your Q statements really paint a clear picture of what you did, whom you did it for, where you did it, and, most important, the results you achieved? If so, great!

If your memory of your Q statement and skills lists are not quite up to par, now is the time to go back and review them or make changes so that you have plenty of information to demonstrate to the interviewer that you are his or her top choice.
Here are some examples:

QUESTION: What are some of your strengths?
ANSWER: My strengths are my negotiating, training, and marketing skills. An example of my training ability is a project for which I trained a group of 16 new employees for the help desk, and they were able to function 20 percent faster than their predecessors.
To answer the question above, this interviewee:
• Cited three of her top skills from her skills arsenal
• Elaborated on one of them with a Q statement

Taken from : Fearless Interviewing - How To Win The Job