As I have mentioned several times, I will not only help you with your visa application process, I will also help you arrive and settle in Canada!

One of the most important tasks that you will have to accomplish after you arrive to Canada will be attending to several job interviews so that you can get the job of your dreams in Canada! Today, I will give you some useful advice and recommendations to help you answer TOUGH questions during your job interview in Canada! Remember, Canadians are very nice, but sometimes they can be tough!

O.K. let’s get started…

After a little practice, most of us can become quite confident answering some interview questions, such as “What are your strengths?” or “Why do you want this job?” These common questions have been heard by millions of job seekers over the years and have been answered with varying degrees of success.

However, there are other questions that are more difficult to masterfully answer. These are the ones interviewers like to throw at us when everything else seems to be going smoothly in the interview. Just when we think we’ve done a great job, we hear something like “Why did you get fired from your last job?” or “How come you’ve had so much trouble finding a position since the layoff?” or “If you could be any television character, who would you be and why?” or “How does your husband/wife feel about you taking this job?’ The problem with most of these questions isn’t that we don’t know the answers; it’s that they take us by surprise for a moment and throw us off our game. We miss the catch because the ball came out of nowhere.

Now you could practice answering all of these potential questions, but there’s always a good bet that a savvy interviewer will still throw something your way that you didn’t see coming. After all, they want to see how well you handle something unexpected. So this section won’t provide you with definite clever answers for all of the possible “trick” questions in the world, but we will look at numerous examples and I’ll give you some basic guidelines and suggestions on how to handle them. As a result, you might be a caught off-guard for a moment by an unusual question, but you’ll recover quickly and answer with a thoughtful response that should “Wow!” the interviewer. With that goal in mind, let’s begin our journey into the world of unusual and difficult interview questions.

Questions About Former Employers & Employment Chances are you won’t escape an interview without facing some questions about your past and/or current employers. Some questions are fairly simple, such as “Tell me what you liked most about your last job.” Those questions you can answer without too much pressure and without becomingly overly worried about slipping up and saying the wrong thing. On the other hand, you may also face more difficult questions about your work history. Here are some examples:

- Why did you leave your last job? - Why were you fired? - Why has there been such a large gap between your jobs? - Why are you switching careers? All of these questions have the potential to cause you to lose your composure during an interview and to stumble around for an answer. Thankfully, however, there are ways to answer these questions effectively.

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