- Tell me about yourself. How would you describe yourself?
- Who or what had the greatest influence on your life?
- What are some of the greatest personal challenges you have faced during your lifetime?
- How would you handle rejection?
- What motivates you to put forward your greatest effort?
- Why should we offer you this job?
- Describe a time when you brought value to your job and/or department. Why was that important? How was it recognized?
- Describe a time when you had to motivate yourself. Why was that necessary?
- What skills and abilities do you possess that will help make you successful in today’s job market?
- Why should we hire you?
- For you, what are some of the pros and cons of working on a team project?
- What kind of relationship should exist between a supervisor and those reporting to him or her?
- Who was the most difficult person you have ever dealy with, and how did you respond?
- How did you organize your time in school/work/play?
- What are your major strengths and weaknesses?
- In what organizational structure do you function best?
- Why did you select our company?
- What are your expectations of this company as your employer?
- What attracts you to this industry?
- What do you know about our company?
- In what ways do you think you can make a contributions to our company?
- Why are you interesting in working here?
- What do you know about our organization?
- Do you prefer a small, medium, or large organization?
- What criteria are you using to evaluate the organization for which you want to work?
- Do you have a geographical perference? Why?
- What are your short-range and long-range goals and objectives? How are you preparing to achieve them?
- What are your goals and aspirations for the next three years? Five years?
- Why do you think you would be good at this profession?
- What prior work experience have you had?
- What were your accomplishments? What were your most significant achievements?
- What would your last two employers sat about you as an employee, either good or bad?
- What projects were accomplished during your time on the job, and how?
- What experiences did you have when meeting deadlines?
- What did you enjoy most about your previous job expereiences? Least?
- Can you tell me about your toughest job assignment?
- Please tell me about a conflict situation and how you resolved it.
- Please tell me about your accomplishments in extracurricular activities.
- Please describe your most rewarding college experiences.
- If you could relive your college experiences, what would you do differently?
- What changes would you make in your overall campus life?
- What were your major responsibilities in campus organizations or activities?
- Why did you choose this major field of study?
- Why did you choose to attend that school?
- What were your favorite college courses? Least favorite? Why?
- How would you relate your academic accomplishments to future career aspirations?
- What electives did you take outside your major? Why?
- What are your academic strengths? What courses gave you the most difficulty?
- What is your grade point average? How do you feel about this?
- Do you think your grades are a good indicator of your future career potential?
- What could you see as a major objective of this job?
- If we hired you, how would you identify the major roles and responsibilities of your new position?
- In addition to your educational and professional experience, what else would you like us to know about you in order to make an appropriate decision?
- What are your greatest achievements at this point in life? Of what accomplishments are you most proud?
- Please describe the roles and functions of the position for which you are applying.
- Please describe some of your strengths and weaknesses.
- Tell me about a time when you had to evaluate someone who wasn’t meeting the requirements of the job. How did you handle that situation? What was the outcome?
- Please describe some of your strengths and weaknesses.
- Think about a time when you found it necessary to verbally communicate critical information to an employee or employees. What was the issue? How did you determine the success of that communication?
- Give me an example of a situation that required you to communicate in writing with an employee or your supervisor. How did you achieve that communication?
- Think of a time when you had to be either proactive or reactive in your communication with others. What was the situation? What was the outcome?
- Are you a proactive or a reactive communicator? Please explain.
- Describe the type of people you enjoy working with and the leaders to whom you report.
- Describe a workplace situation in which you had to deal with a difficult customer or co-worker. How did you deal with it? What were the results?
- We have a good team-oriented environment. Give me an example of a successful team experience from a previous job.
- Give me an example of an unpleasant teamwork experience. How did you manage the situation?
- Think of a time when you had to manage multiple projects and meet certain deadlines. Feel free to use examples from college, church, workplace, etc. What was the most difficult part of that situation? How did you deal with it?
- Tell me about a time when you had a lot of work to accomplish in a short time. How did you manage that situation? What was the result?
- Think of a time when you had both large and small projects to complete. How did you go about setting priorities and completing those projects? What challenges did that present?
- Think of a time when you had to organize one of your busiest workdays. What was the day like and how did you organize the day's work?
- How do you determine priorities in scheduling your time? Give examples.
- Give me an example of an important work-related goal you set and tell me about your plans to reach that goal. What did you learn from this experience? How did the outcome affect others?
- Describe one of the most difficult problems you faced on the job. What made the problem difficult to resolve? How did you solve it?
- What was your most challenging decision in the last six months? What made it challenging?
- Please name the different types of software you use regularly.
- What types of software are you interested in learning?
- Give me an example of a time when you had to learn some new software. How did you become proficient in its use?
- Think of a situation where there wasn’t a trusting relationship with another co-worker. What did you specifically do to try to build a more trusting relationship? What was the result?
- Describe a time when you had to really “walk the talk.” How difficult was it? What were the results?
- Describe a time when you had to go the “extra mile” to gain and develop trust among colleagues, staff or constituents. What did you learn from your experience?
- How would you coach someone else on building trust?
- Describe a situation in which you were able to use persuasion to successfully convice someone to see things your way.
- What qualifications do you have that make you think you will be successful in this field?
- What do you think it takes to be successful in our organization?
- In what ways can you contribute to our organization?
- Describe the relationship that should exist between a supervisor and employee.
- What factors are most important to you in your job?
- Describe a situation where others you were working with on a project disagreed with your ideas. What did you do?
- Describe a situation in which you found that your results were not up to your supervisor’s expectations. What happened? What action did you take?
- Tell of a time when you worked with a colleague who was not completing their share of the work. Who, if anyone, did you tell or talk to about it? Did the manager take any steps to correct your colleague? Did you agree or disagree with the manager’s actions?
- Describe a situation in which you had to arrive at a compromise or guide others to a compromise.
- Tell me about a time when you worked successfully as a member of a team.
- Describe a situation where you were successful in getting people to work together effectively.
- Describe a situation in which you were a member (not a leader) of a team, and a conflict arose within the team. What did you do?
- How do you feel about working for a company of this size? What do you see are the benefits and drawbacks?
- How long would you plan to stay with this company?
- What are your salary expectations?
- Why should we hire you?
- Why did you choose this particular career?
- Where would you like to be in five years? ten?
- What are your long-range goals?
- Who is the greatest influence in your self-development?
- Describe the ideal organization that you would like to work for.
- What do you know about our organization, including its history?
- What do you know about our products and services?
- Sometimes it’s easy to “get in over your head”. Describe a situation where you had to request help or assistance on a project of assignments.
- Give an example of how you applied knowledge from a previous job to a project in another job.
Analysis
- What steps do you follow to study a problem before making a decision?
- We can sometimes identify a small problem and fix it before it becomes a major problem. Give an example of how you have done this.
- Describe a situation in which you had to collect information by asking many questions of several people.
Adaptability
- Tell me some situations in which you have had to adjust quickly to changes over which you had no control. What was the impact of the change on you?
- Describe a project or goal that has caused you frustration.
- Tell me about a time when you changed your priorities to meet others’ expectations.
- Describe a time when you altered your own behavior to fit the situation.
Work Standards
- Describe some times when you were not very satisfied or pleased with your performance. What did you do about it?
- Describe some times when you were not very satisfied or pleased with your performance. What did you do about it?
- What are your standards of success in school? What have you done to meet these standards?
- How have you differed from your professors in evaluating your performance? How did you handle the situation?
Initiative
- Describe some projects or ideas (not necessarily your own) that were implemented, or carried out successfully primarily because of your efforts?
- Describe a situation that required a number of things to be done at the same time. How did you handle it? What was the result?
- Have you found ways to make your job easier or more rewarding?
Ability to Learn
- What tricks or techniques have you learned to make you job easier or more effective? How did you learn that?
- When give something new to learn, how do you like to go about learning it?
Sensitivity
- Give an example of when you had to work with someone who was difficult to get along with. Why was this person difficult? How did you handle that person?
- Describe a situation where you found yourself dealing with someone who didn't like you. How did you handle it?
Organizational Awareness
- Describe the culture of your organization and give an example of how you work within this culture to achieve a goal.
- Describe the things you consider and the steps you take in assessing the viability of a new idea or initiative.
- Tell me about a time when you used your knowledge of the organization to get what you needed.
Results Orientation
- Tell me about a time when you set and achieved a goal.
- Tell me about a time when you improved the way things were typically done on the job.
- Describe something you have done to improve the performance of your work unit.
- Describe something you have done to maximize or improve the use of resources beyond your own work unit to achieve improved results.
Developing Others
- Tell me about a time when you coached someone to help them improve their skills or job performance. What did you do?
- Describe a time when you provided feedback to someone about their performance.
- Give me an example of a time when you recognized that a member of your team had a performance difficulty/deficiency. What did you do?
Impact and Influence
- Describe a recent situation in which you convinced an individual or a group to do something.
- Describe a time when you went through a series of steps to influence an individual or a group on an important issue.
- Describe a situation in which you needed to influence different stakeholders with differing perspectives.
Innovation
- Describe something you have done that was new and differetn for your organization, that improved performance and/or productivity.
- Tell me about a time when you identified a new, unusual or different approach for addressing a problem or task.
- Tell me about a recent problem in which old solutions wouldn't work. How did you solved the problem?
- Describe a situation in which you took a creative approach to resourcing to achieve a goal
- Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a particular resource management issue regarding either people, materials or assets.
- Describe the options you would consider to resource a project or goal if you did not have the available resources within your own span of control.
- Describe the level of stress in your job and what you do to manage it.
- Describe a time when you were in a high pressure situation.
- Describe a time when things didn't turn out as you had planned and you had to analyze the situation to address the issue.
- Describe a challenge or opportunity you identifed based on your industry knowledge, and how you developed a strategy to respond to it.
- Describe a time you created a strategy to achieve a longer term business objective.
- Describe a time when you used your business knowledge to understand a specific business situation
