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Prepping for an interview can be nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time.
On the one hand, it's your time to show a potential employer everything you bring to the table. On the other hand, clumsy or incomplete answers could easily hinder your chances of being hired.
While it's impossible to predict every question that a hiring manager will ask you, there are a few that are almost guaranteed to come up, and bestselling management author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch knows just what you should say.
Below, Welch tells CNBC Make It exactly how you should answer seven interview questions every job seeker will almost definitely encounter:
When asked to discuss yourself in an interview, Welch says employers are looking for two key things in your answer: maturity and authenticity.
That's why, she says, you shouldn't be afraid to show who you really are, but you should also tell your story with the job in mind. 'The interviewer, usually your future boss, wants to know the parts of your life story that relate to you doing well in the open job,' says Welch.
And because a company's culture can be essential to its success, she says employers also 'want to see if you fit in culturally.'
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Talking about your salary requirements with a potential employer can be difficult. If you undersell yourself, Welch says you run the risk of being 'underpaid and undervalued from day one.' But, if you oversell yourself, then she says 'you could price yourself right out of a job offer.'
To effectively answer this question, Welch says you should follow three simple steps: 1. Do your research, 2. Determine how much leverage you have, and 3. Come up with an appropriate salary range.
'Don't blurt out what you think you're worth, or what you think they want to hear,' she says. 'Instead, show your diligence and maturity — it's as easy as one, two, three.'
Being asked to discuss your past mistakes in an interview may throw you for a loop. But, Welch says, many hiring managers ask this question because 'they're trying to figure out if you own your mistakes, or if you're the kind of jerk who passes blame around.'
She adds that interviewers are also trying to figure out how well you react when things don't go as planned. That's why, Welch emphasizes, it's important to pick the right mistake that's 'big enough to show you've got the bumps and bruises of real experience, but small enough to convey you are generally highly competent.'
But, even with the right mistake in mind, Welch warns that you want to be sure not to ruin your chances of landing the job by focusing on the negative aspect for too long. 'Spend the majority of your answer to this question on the aftermath of your mistake,' she says, 'what you learned, the ways you changed and how you grew.'
As an interview comes to an end, it's almost guaranteed that a hiring manager will ask, 'Do you have any questions?' And, according to Welch, your answer can either hurt or improve you chances of landing the job.
Rather than responding with a simple answer like, 'What would a typical day look like for me?' Welch says you should use this opportunity to shine. She emphasizes that you should ask questions that show you've been listening and that you know how to think big.
A good example, she says, is asking something like, 'I just read an interesting article about how your competitors are using artificial intelligence. How are you thinking about that development?'
This type of answer, Welch explains, will show a potential employer that you are thinking ahead about the company and how it operates.
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Describing yourself in three words can be a real challenge when you're trying to prove to a hiring manager that you're a well-rounded candidate. But, Welch says, regardless of how hard this question may seem, interviewers love to ask it in order to 'evaluate if you're authentic and self-aware.'
To deliver the perfect answer, she says you want to offer a response that describes how your mind works, demonstrates your character and reveals something interesting about you.
Discussing your strengths in an interview may sound easy, but Welch explains how this common interview question is one that many people still get wrong.
When preparing your answer, she says you should always make sure that your response passes what she refers to as the 'A.R.S.I. test.' This means, is your response 'accurate, relevant, specific and interesting?'
'Let a piece of you shine through,' Welch says. 'Let your humanity shine through.'
Asking about a candidate's current salary is banned in some states, but it's still legal in others, which is why Welch says you should always be prepared to deliver a proper response to this question.
'People are going to tell you that you should game this conversation,' she says, or that 'you should dodge this question by talking about ranges. That is no way to start a relationship.'
Instead, Welch says you should follow a two-step process when discussing your current salary with a potential employer. The first step, she explains, is to do your research so that you know your market value. The second step, she says, is to disclose your current salary and then make the case for how much you think you should be paid.
In the end, she says, 'if your potential employer games you in this conversation, it's a warning sign.'
Suzy Welch is the co-founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute and a noted business journalist, TV commentator and public speaker. If you have questions about your own career, email her at gettowork@cnbc.com.
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A fruit snack is a sugary processed food marketed to the parents as a snack for children in the United States. Fruit snacks are very similar to gummy candies.[1] The main content is sugar, especially refined sugar derived from concentrated white grape juice and apple juice.[1] Some fruit snacks have more sugar than gummi candies, and they usually have less protein.[2] The main differences between gummi candies and fruit snacks are the marketing and advertising approaches, and the use of refined sugar extracted from tapioca or fruit juice in addition to, or sometimes instead of, refined sugar extracted from sugar beets, corn, or sugarcane.
Well-known manufacturers of chewy fruit snacks include Promotion In Motion (Welch's brand), Kellogg's, General Mills and Betty Crocker.
Fruit snacks gained popularity from their convenience, candy-like taste, and marketing that positioned the product as being healthier than candy. Most are stored in disposable plastic packaging that does not need to be refrigerated; therefore, they can be taken virtually anywhere. However, they do have an expiration date. Fruit snacks vary in the amount of fruit content. Some, like Welch's, contain some fruit purees. Others only have trace amounts of juice, in addition to sugar.
Fruit leathers differ in that they have a different shape. The ingredients may be the same, or they may be made primarily from pureed, dried fruit and concentrated, high-sugar fruit juice.
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Nutrition[edit]
More than half the weight of the fruit snacks is simple sugars.[3] They also contain an average of 12% water by weight, 25% starch, a small amount of fat, and a negligible amount of protein.[3]
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The nutritional value or content of fruit snacks has long been contested.[4] Much of the controversy surrounds the nutritional value (or possible lack thereof) in sugar, which is found in large amounts in some fruit snacks.[5] Parents are advised to treat their children's consumption of fruit snacks the same way they would a candy or any other sugary snack food item.[6]
Price[edit]
As of 2015, fruit snacks generally cost two to five times the price of gummy bears.[2]
History[edit]
The modern, highly processed fruit snack has nothing in common with dried fruit. The first modern fruit snack was Joray Fruit Rolls, which were developed by confectioner Louis Shalhoub in the 1970s.[1] It was used by backpackers as a lightweight, high-energy food rather than as healthful-sounding candy for children.
The name fruit snack was first used in 1983 by General Mills, which they used to describe their version of Shalhoub's product, Fruit Roll-Ups, which contained far more sugar.[1]
By the mid-1980s, the fruit snack was a multimillion-dollar business. However, sales peaked in 2013 and declined over the next few years.[7]
Lawsuits[edit]
In some cases, manufactures of fruit snacks have faced class-action lawsuits over their marketing claims that fruit snacks are 'healthy.'[8]
- In 2015, two women filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against Welch's Fruit Snacks, alleging illegal supplementation with vitamins, in violation of the jelly bean rule. The jelly bean rule prohibits food manufacturers from deceiving consumers into buying candy by adding vitamins and marketing the candy as a healthful food.[2] The licensed manufacturer[9] replied that the complaint is without merit,[10] 'It is a fact that fruit, whether in the form of juices or more recently purees, has always been the first ingredient in Welch’s Fruit Snacks. Our labeling is truthful and gives consumers the information they need to make informed decisions.”[11] The case was voluntarily dismissed in 2017.[12]
- In 2017, another person filed a class-action lawsuit in New Jersey against Welch's Fruit Snacks, alleging that the snack food is marketed as being more healthful than similar products despite being nutritionally similar to candy.[13]
Well-known companies[edit]
Betty Crocker via General Mills[edit]
General Mills, owner of Betty Crocker products, introduced the first Fruit Corners Fruit Roll-Ups in 1983 and then Fruit by the Foot. Fruit Roll-Ups and Fruit by the Foot are packaged similarly, and the products are rolled around a material so the snack does not stick to itself. However, the two snacks differ with respect to taste, texture, and consistency.
Fruit Gushers[14] are fruit snacks in the shape of elongated hexagonal bipyramids, which made primarily from sugar and fruit juice, with small amounts of other ingredients. Introduced in 1991, they are produced by General Mills under the Betty Crocker brand name, and may be found in generic forms as well.[15][16]
Welch's[edit]
Among the many product types under the Welch's brand are Welch’s Fruit Snacks, which are manufactured and marketed under license by The Promotion In Motion Companies, Inc. Welch’s Fruit Snacks are made with fruit purees, corn syrup, sugar, starch, and juices, among other ingredients.
Kellogg's[edit]
Kellogg's created 'Fruit Winders' in the UK, which is similar to the American Fruit by the Foot by General Mills, only in fewer flavors. Unlike Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Winders contain no artificial colorings and each flavor is made with real purée derived from the fruit it represents (e.g. the strawberry flavour contains real strawberry purée).
Fruit Winders were introduced in the UK and Ireland in 2001 under the Kellogg's brand. The product was first called 'Real Fruit Winders', which was later changed to 'Screamin Fruit Winders' before being changed finally to 'Kellogg's Fruit Winders'. When the product first came out, the flavors were Orange, Strawberry and Blackcurrant, with Apple introduced shortly after.
Later, a public call-in contest was held where people would vote for a new Fruit Winders flavor. The choices were Tropical, Raspberry and Lemon. The winning flavor was Tropical, but Raspberry and Lemon were introduced later on afterwards. In 2006, Fruit Winders discontinued the Orange, Tropical, Raspberry and Lemon flavors along with the spin-off products, and made the strands small enough ti fit two on each winder. Apple and Blackcurrant were placed into the Doubles, including brands with Strawberry, leaving Strawberry the only flavour to be sold as a single packets, but with two smaller winders. As of 2017, there had been a new flavor of Very Cherry added, and is sold only in select stores.
The spin-off products were a squeezable product called Screamin Fruit Squidgers and gummy candies with a liquid centre, which were called Screamin Fruit Spurters. These were discontinued in 2006.
The television adverts for Fruit Winders showed a fruit with eyes and a mouth being winded into a Fruit Winder by a character that was a humanoid version of the fruit it was harming, these ads often had the slogan 'Unwind the fruity fun, FOREVER!'. On the paper attached to the Fruit Winder, a comic strip is shown, it shows a comic of the characters winding the fruit. Every Winder has a different story or way of being winded.
Fruit Winder Gang
- Blabber the Male Orange Jokester
- Booster the Male Blackcurrent Genius
- Max the Female Apple Athlete
- Sorbabe the Female Strawberry DJ
- Voodoo the Male Tropical Witch Doctor
- Unknown Cherry Character
- Unknown Female Lemon Genie
- Unknown Male Raspberry Secret Agent
Other brands[edit]
Annie's Homegrown Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks, owned by General Mills, uses sugar refined from sweet cassava roots.[2]
Sunkist has manufactured and licensed several fruit snacks brands:
- Sunkist Fun Fruits was a licensedsnack food from Leaf Confections Limited, manufactured with fruit from Sunkist Growers, Incorporated and packaged by Thomas J. Lipton. The snack, which was introduced in 1987, was small, soft, and pellet shaped. Initially, the product was available in four flavors: cherry, grape, orange and strawberry. Later that year, assorted shapes, such as dinosaurs and rock 'n' roll shapes, were introduced in order to appeal to children. With the dismantling of Leaf Confections, Sunkist licensed the production of fruit snacks:[17]
- Sunkist First Fruit Snacks, in Canada, are manufactured by Ganong Bros. Limited
- Sunkist Fruit Gems are manufactured by the Ben Myerson Candy Company
- Sunkist Fruit Snacks are manufactured by General Mills, Inc.
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- ^ abcdeMoyer, Melinda Wenner (September 25, 2015). 'Don't Be Fooled Into Thinking Welch's Fruit Snacks Are Any Healthier Than Candy'.
- ^ ab'Basic Report: 19013, Snacks, fruit leather, pieces'. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (Release 27). Retrieved 2015-09-28.
- ^Kawash, Samira. 'The Candification of Our Food: The Case of the Fruit-Less Fruit Snack'. The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^O'Connor, Anahad (2016-06-08). 'Is Sugar Really Bad for You? It Depends'. Well. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
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- ^'Lawsuit alleges Welch's Fruit Snacks are more candy than fruit'. Fortune. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^Watson, Elaine (23 Sep 2015). 'Welch's fruit snacks are 'no more healthful than candy', says false advertising lawsuit'. Food Navigator.
- ^Hamm, Nia (12 Oct 2015). 'Lawsuit: Welch's Fruit Snacks 'No More Healthful Than Candy''. Public News Service.
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- ^'Fruit Gushers - The 25 Greatest Fruit Snacks of All Time'. Complex. 25 July 2013.
- ^'Kids` Snack Gushes With Fruit Flavor'. Sun Sentinel.
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