- Tell me about yourself.
- Why do you want to attend our program?
- Tell us about a time when you overcame a difficult challenge.
- Describe one of your favorite hobbies and why it is essential to you.
- How do you work under pressure?
- What is your greatest strength and weakness?
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How to Ace Your Kira Talent Interviews
Kira Talent is an online interview platform, currently being used by some universities as part of their admissions process. This guide will tell you everything you need to know to put your best self forward in this remote, virtual interview environment.
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What is “Kira Talent”, and How is it Used for Admissions?
Touted as a tool for use in holistic review of candidates, Kira Talent is an online interviewing platform. With text and video questions as an interview format that applicants complete at home, online, on their own time, this platform allows institutions to remotely interview potential students. Kira Talent is by invitation only, meaning the institution will tell you how/if you need to use this platform, and it is often (though not always) used as a precursor to in-person or Skype interviews.
In the Kira Talent interview, you will not interact with live people; rather, you will be presented with video- and text-based questions and will devise video- or text-based responses (video responses to video questions, text responses to text questions). These interviews are intended to evaluate your leadership potential, verbal and written communication skills, comprehension of key concepts, drives and motivations, and professionalism. The questions themselves are randomly assigned, and preparation and response time can vary widely. As will be discussed further below, preparation time is given only for video questions (for text questions, you’ll begin typing your response immediately), and this prep time can be as brief as 5 seconds, or as long as a few minutes. Likewise, response times are highly variable, with some as low as 30 seconds, up to several minutes.
After the interview, multiple reviewers will analyze your answers as they are sent to the institution. As well, an automated system within Kira Talent reviews the technical aspects of your written responses, like spelling and grammar. Each applicant’s responses receive a written communication score based on spelling and grammar, relative to other interviewees, and this score is sent to the institution with your video and text answers.
Common questions on the Kira video interview
These are some typical questions asked in the Kira video interview. Notice that they are not particularly hard-hitting questions, but designed to help the admissions staff get to know you better and assess whether or not you are able to communicate ideas well.
The Kira written questions test your ability to write a short essay under timed conditions. You’ll be shown a question and at the same time, a timer will start – typically 5 minutes. A live word count will display how many words you have written – but don’t try and target a particular length. Keep in mind that the Kira written questions are meant to test whether or not you are able to write a passable text in English (or any other language) under timed conditions. You are not expected to be the next coming of Shakespeare in 5 minutes! After you are done writing your answer, hit the “submit” button. Another thing that many people worry about is whether they will be recorded while answering the written questions. Kira claims applicants are not recorded. So you can write your answer without worrying about how you look on camera!
Set 1
Q1: How do you work under pressure?
Q2: Tell me about a time when you had many tasks you had to work on at the same time. How did you prioritise?
Q3: Tell me about a time when you had to make a quick decision? What were the circumstances and what did you do?
Q4: Describe an accomplishment that has given you the most satisfaction and why?
Q5: Tell us something about yourself that we cannot find in your application.
Q6: How would you describe yourself?
Q7: Tell us about a person or an event that has been influential in your personal development.
Q8: How do you think a close family member or friend would describe you? How would you define leadership?
Q9: Tell me about a time when you went out of your way to help a colleague or a client.
Q10: Tell me about a time when you worked successfully as a part of a team.
