Don't over orchestrate your answers
I know a lot of people will disagree with us, but don't over plan answers to common questions. For example "What do you want to be doing in five years time?" It's a good idea to have a rough idea of how you will answer these type of questions, but you can spot somebody who has written down an answer a mile way. This backfires on you in two ways. The first being that it makes you look like you've done heaps of job interviews before. Nobody wants to hire the dud nobody else is hiring. The second part of the reason interviewers ask these questions is to see how employees react on their feet. If it looks like you pre-planned your answers then we have to ask even more odd questions to see you react on your feet. One time somebody had pre-planned all the questions I asked (well 90% of them) in the end I asked him what type of food would he be and he freaked out and said a pear then proceed to list all the good things about pears.
