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Sample Job Interview Questions
Nimish Thakkar, MS, MBA,
CCMC, CPRW, SaiCareers.com,
New York
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. What are your strengths?
3. Walk me through your resume.
4. What are your goals?
5. What are your long term goals?
6. What are your short term goals?
7. Where do you see yourself five years from now?
8. Where do you see yourself ten years from now?
9. Why should we hire you?
10. What is your weakness?
11. Tell us about a time when you failed? What did you learn? How have
you improved since?
12. Why do you want to work with us?
13. Why did you choose this profession? What makes you (or would make
you) successful in this career?
14. Where do you want to go from here?
15. Tell us about some of your accomplishments.
16. Have you ever worked with teams?
17. Tell us about your best boss; your worst.
18. How do you generally resolve conflicts? Did you ever have a
conflict with your peers or colleagues? How did you convince them to
view or accept your perspective?
19. Give us an example of a problem you recently solved? How did you
solve the problem? What was the
outcome?
20. How would you rate your leadership skills? Can you give some
examples of your leadership skills?
21. What are your salary expectations?
22. Are you willing to relocate?
23. Are you willing to travel?
24. Give examples of how you benefited your previous employer? How can
you benefit us?
25. How would you describe "goals"? How do you establish goals? How do
you go about achieving them? Tell us about some goals you set and
whether you achieved them.
26. Tell us about a time when you prevented a major loss or failure.
How did you go about it?
27. Tell us about a time when you convinced an employer, peer,
colleague, vendor, or client to accept your perspective.
28. Describe (in detail) some of the major projects you undertook in school.
29. What career path would you like to choose after finishing your
studies? Why? What would make you successful in that path?
30. You don’t seem to have much experience. Why should we hire you?
31. You appear to be overqualified. Why should we hire you?
32. Was there ever a time when you disagreed with your previous
employer, supervisor, or professor? How did you resolve the
disagreement?
33. Why do you say you perform well under pressure? Can you describe a
time when you did perform well under pressure?
34. What coursework did you take in school? How did it impact your
career?
35. Which professor, mentor, or supervisor had the greatest influence
on you? Why?
36. Do you plan to continue your education? What educational path do
you wish to follow?
37. Tell me about your volunteer experience.
38. Describe your career’s (or school’s) most ambitious projects. What
were your contributions to these projects?
39. Did you ever have to make an impromptu decision? Provide details.
40. Describe some of the programs you introduced.
41. Tell me of a time when you did not perform up to expected
standards. What did you do after that?
42. Did you ever lead teams? Did you ever have a problem employee? How
did you handle her or him?
43. Were you ever assigned a project that was beyond your
capabilities? How did you handle the project?
44. What was the most successful moment of your career?
45. What was the worst moment of your career?
46. Why do you consider yourself a multi-tasker? Can you give examples
of situations where you handled multiple tasks simultaneously?
47. Describe examples of when you had to speak with large groups of
people.
48. Did you ever have to work with a peer or colleague who wasn’t easy
to work with? How did you manage working with her or him?
49. Describe how you motivated others and led them to successfully
complete a task or project.
50. Why do you want to leave your present job?
51. What adjectives would you use to describe yourself?
52. What motivates you to work hard?
53. Why did you choose your college major?
54. How did you apply your coursework to some of your projects? How
can you apply your knowledge in real life?
55. What makes you unique?
56. What motivates you the most?
57. What experience do you have that qualifies you for this position?
58. Tell me about a time when you had a confrontation
with a co-worker? How did you resolve the disagreement?
59. Tell me about the most difficult assignment you’ve ever had?
60. Tell me about a time when you had to adapt to change very quickly.
How did you succeed?
61. Can you give an example of working in a fast-paced environment.
62. One of our key objectives for the person who is offered this
position will be to (a top performance objective). Can you tell me
about your most important comparable accomplishment(s)?
63. If you were offered this position, how would you go about
implementing ?
64. How do you think a friend or professor who knows you well would
describe you?
65. In what ways have your college experiences prepared you for a
career?
66. How do you determine or evaluate success?
67. Describe your most rewarding college experience.
68. Which one of our products is your favorite?
69. What interests you about our product or service?
70. What college subjects did you like the most? Why?
71. What college subjects did you like the least? Why?
72. How is your academic performance an indicator of your work
potential?
73. How have your extracurricular activities influenced you?
74. Describe your personality.
75. Describe your ideal job.
Sample Questions You Could Ask At An Interview
1. I am very interested in this position. What would be a typical
career path for a person starting from this position?
2. How do you measure performance/excellence? How often?
3. What is the next step in the hiring process?
4. How soon do you want the person to start?
5. What are your plans for this decision process? When do you expect
to make a decision? I’d like to stay in touch with you should other
information or thoughts surface that might be relevant to our
conversation.
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