Hello there, my name is Richard McMunn from
the interview training company, PassMyInterview.com.
And in this tutorial, I am going to teach
you how to pass an electrical engineer interview!
If you have an electrical engineering interview
coming up for any organization from across
the world, please make sure you stay tuned,
watch this tutorial from beginning to end,
because I promise to help make you the STANDOUT
CANDIDATE! To achieve that goal, this is what
I will cover. I'm going to give you a list
of electrical engineer interview questions
that I recommend you prepare for. I will also
give you great, top scoring, sample answers
to help you pass your electrical engineering
interview. I will tell you the qualities that
the interviewer is looking for, and therefore,
the ones that you must demonstrate throughout
the duration of your interview to succeed.
And I will also tell you about where you can
get access to further resources to help you
prepare fully. So, there’s 4 reasons why
you should stay tuned and watch this presentation
fully. Now, quickly, before I get in to the
electrical engineer interview questions and
top scoring answers… A very warm welcome
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it for you. Okay, let's get into those electrical
engineering interview questions and the top-scoring
answers. So, the first question I want you
to prepare for is: Tell me about yourself
and why you will make a good electrical engineer
for our company? This will be the first interview
question that you need to answer. Let's make
sure that you load your response with the
skills, the qualities and the experience you
have that will enable you to ADD VALUE to
their organization. That's important. We want
to prove that we can ADD VALUE within the
role. Here's a great answer. “Thank you
for inviting me to be interviewed for this
position today. I would like to think I am
a safety-focused, results-driven and professional
electrical engineer who can be relied upon
to carry out my tasks competently within strict
rules and procedures in a fast and efficient
manner. I say this because over the years
I have developed lots of transferrable skills,
qualities and experience that make me highly
effective as an electrical engineer. For example,
in my previous role, my supervisor would often
ask me to work on challenging electrical engineering
projects that needed an analytical and data
driven approach to solving difficult problems.
I understand there comes a huge amount of
responsibility as an electrical engineer,
and if you hire me within this position, I
will work hard to repay the faith you will
have shown in employing me.” That’s a
very good answer. You use that kind of answer
at the start of your interview and you are
up and running, because you have demonstrated
how you can ADD VALUE to their organization.
Now, you can either pause the video if you
want to and take notes of these answers as
I progress, or if you wait, I will tell you
where you can download my full set of 21 Electrical
Engineer interview questions and top-scoring
answers. The next question: Why do you want
to work for us as an electrical engineer?
And the only way you can answer this interview
question with confidence is if you RESEARCH
their organization. Here is a model answer
to assist you. “As soon as I saw the position
advertised, I knew this was where I wanted
to work as an electrical engineer. There are
three specific reasons why I want to work
for your company. You have a strong reputation
within the industry as a high-achieving organization,
which means I will be able to work on various
electrical tasks and projects utilizing my
skills and experience in the process. You
also have a reputation as a supportive employer
who encourages your staff to continually train,
improve and maintain professional competence.
Finally, I am looking for long term employment
as an electrical engineer, and providing I
perform to high standards in the role, which
I can assure you I will do, I plan to stay
here for a long period of time.” I like
that answer because you are not just giving
one reason why you want to work for them,
but you're actually giving three specific
reasons, and they are positive, genuine reasons
as well. The next question, what skills are
needed to become a competent electrical engineer
in this role? This is your chance to show
the interviewer you fully understand the important
skills needed to be a highly effective, safe
and competent electrical engineer. Here is
my suggested answer. “Whilst there are many
different skills needed to be an effective
electrical engineer, there are 8 that I rely
in to perform consistently to high standards
in my work. These include, an ability to OPERATE
SAFELY WHILST FOLLOWING RULES AND PROCEDURES.
This is the number 1 most important skill
needed to be an electrical engineer. You also
need excellent PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS, because
essentially, electrical engineers are problem
solvers. You need a high level of COMPETENCE
IN TECHNICAL CIRCUITS AND ELECTRICAL CONCEPTS,
ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS and
also strong ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITIES to
manage your workload and deliver tasks and
projects on time. Finally, you must be able
to BUILD STRONG PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS,
COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY and also possess a
desire to CONTINUALLY LEARN AND IMPROVE within
your role.” I like that answer because you
are focusing on a set number of skills, and
in this particular example, I've given you
8 that I believe are fundamental to the role
of an electrical engineer. Now, please don't
go anywhere because I still have more questions
to run through to help you pass. But when
you are ready, if you want to CLICK THAT LINK
in the top right hand corner of the video,
it takes you through to my website, PassMyInterview.com,
where you can download my full set of 21 Electrical
Engineer interview questions and top-scoring
answers, including the ones that I'm going
through right now. The next question: As an
electrical engineer, how would you develop
professional relationships? An organization
wants to know not only can you be a competent
and professional electrical engineer, but
you can also build long lasting, positive
working relationships with key members of
staff, contractors and stakeholders. Now,
this is a common electrical engineer interview
question. So here is my suggested answer.
“I believe it’s important to build strong
relationships as an electrical engineer for
two main reasons. Firstly, it can help you
to complete tasks quickly and more effectively,
if you can call on people for help, advice,
or support. The second reason is, positive
relationships with your work colleagues and
senior managers is essential, because you
are all working towards the same goal. If
you are all working together collaboratively,
you will be able to get more done in a faster
timeframe. I would develop professional relationships
by keeping in regular communication with important
team members, my supervisors and also vital
stakeholders. I would also support them in
their work and always make sure I represented
your company in a positive manner at all times
when both communicating and also carrying
out essential electrical engineering work.”
That's a great answer! You show there you
understand the importance of building professional
relationships as an electrical engineer. The
next question… Give me an example of a technical
electrical engineering project you have worked
on? It's important that you give a SPECIFIC
EXAMPLE here of where you worked collaboratively
as part of a team to achieve a successful
outcome during an important project or design
process. Here is my suggested answer, and
you will notice that I use what's called the
STAR technique of situation, task, action
result. Here we go. “In my previous electrical
engineering role, I was part of a team that
was responsible for designing and installing
an electrical patient lift in a new hospital.
It was our task to work together as a team,
discuss the design and build options and then
install the patient chair safely whilst following
all relevant standards and safety procedures.
During the initial team brief we discussed
the specification needed by the hospital,
and I explained the limitations from an electrical
engineering perspective and what I could do
to make the project work successfully. Throughout
the project I maintained a flexible approach
from an electrical engineering angle, I supported
the other team members and made sure I focused
at all times on the needs of the hospital
whilst keeping a close eye on safety and technical
standards. Three months after starting work
on the project, the electrical patient chair
had been designed and installed successfully
and it became an important part of the hospital’s
day-to-day operations.” You will see there
that by focusing your answer using situation,
task, action result, you can give a TOP SCORING
ANSWER that is situational based, and that’s
very, very important! The next thing to do,
I'll take you through to my website, so don't
go anywhere. But if you CLICK THAT LINK in
the top right hand corner of the page, it
takes you through to my website, PassMyInterview.com.
Let's just quickly go there. It’ll take
you through to this page, and you can download
my full set of 21 Electrical Engineer interview
questions and answers. There's a full list
of the questions there that I recommend you
prepare for. You can download the answers
as well. I've also given you FIVE TOP TIPS
here to help you prepare fully for your electrical
engineer interview. Make sure you read those
as well, and you can download them by clicking
the link at the bottom of the page. You can
get access to those within literally two minutes
from now. And it will certainly go a long
way to helping you pass your interview! I
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