HR Interview is a necessary first step before any final selection round.
Hence before your future boss can even know you exist, you stand a chance to get rejected by the HR department.
The reason for conducting an HR interview is to assess you competencies and fit for the role in question.
Hence it is crucial that you come across as an objective and confident individual.
Confidence can be faked and hence HR interviewer asks tricky questions to make you loose your cool.
If you survive these questions unperturbed, your chances of getting selected increase exponentially.
One such question is "Rate me as an interviewer.
" The question just sounds simple, but in reality, it is quite sinister.
You are in a fix, if you give a great score, you may come across as a suck up.
But if you are too objective about it, and give a low score, interviewer might not like it.
Because honestly, even an HR executive is human and may not be completely open to criticism.
The way out is to stay away from giving a numerical score.
Never ever give a number.
A better strategy is to talk about one characteristic of the interviewer which s/he exhibited during the interview.
For e.
g.
if you are being interviewed for a technical job and the interviewer previously asked very relevant questions about your field, compliment them on their in-depth knowledge of the technical field apart from their obvious specialization i.
e.
HR.
In this case you will be able to give exact reason for your observation.
Stay away from any generalizations or global statements.
If you plan to say, you are a great listener, make sure you have a reason ready.
Don't fear this tricky but effective interview question.
Use this opportunity to show you positive attitude and objective nature.