Work Experience and Background
What this section measures
This is a biodata questionnaire, not a knowledge test. It asks about your actual work history: attendance and punctuality, how long you stayed with employers, reasons for leaving, how you handled supervision and rules, teamwork, safety habits, and whether you have done physical or shift work. The underlying traits are reliability, rule compliance, and realistic self-knowledge. Answers are compared with each other and with the rest of your application.
Answer from evidence, not aspiration
Before the exam, list three or four real jobs and recall concrete details: how often you were late, whether you ever received a warning, a time you reported a hazard, a time a schedule change disrupted you. Specific memory produces consistent answers. Answer about what you did, not what you would like to have done or what a model employee would do.
Traps
Overclaiming is the biggest risk. Answering that you were never late, never disagreed with anyone, and never missed a day can read as unrealistic and can conflict with later items. Equally damaging is blame - describing every past conflict as someone else's fault. Inconsistency between near-duplicate questions (for example, attendance now and attendance later) is flagged. Do not let a blemish push you into denial; own it and note what changed.
Rule of thumb
Truthful and consistent beats impressive. If you were late twice last year, answer twice every time it comes up. Example: a question asks how many days you missed in the past year and a later item asks whether your attendance was good - a truthful two days paired with a fair rating stays coherent; zero followed by an admission does not.