100 Potential Interview Questions
• By Thad Peterson, Monster Staff Writer While there are as many different possible interview questions as there are interviewers, it always helps to be ready for anything. So we've prepared a list of 100 potential interview questions. Will you face them all? We pray no interviewer would be that cruel. Will you face a few? Probably. Will you be well-served by being ready even if you're not asked these exact questions? Absolutely.
Tell me about yourself.
•What are your strengths?
•What are your weaknesses?
•Why do you want this job?
•Where would you like to be in your career five years from now?
•What's your ideal company
•What attracted you to this company?
Basic Interview Questions
Why should we hire you? •
What did you like least about your last job?
•When were you most satisfied in your job?
•What can you do for us that other candidates can't?
•What were the responsibilities of your last position?
•Why are you leaving your present job?
•What do you know about this industry?
•What do you know about our company?
•Are you willing to relocate?
Behavioral Interview Questions:
Do you have any questions for me? •
What was the last project you headed up, and what was its outcome?
•Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work.
•Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?
•Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight?
How did you handle it?
•Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it?
•What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?
•What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it?
•If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you do?
•What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it?
•Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it?
•What's the most difficult decision you've made in the last two years and how did you come to that decision?
•Describe how you would handle a situation if you were required to finish multiple tasks by the end of the day, and there was no conceivable way that you could finish them.
•Salary Questions:
What salary are you seeking? •
How would you describe your work style?
•What would be your ideal working environment?
•What do you look for in terms of culture -- structured or entrepreneurial?
•Give examples of ideas you've had or implemented.
•What techniques and tools do you use to keep yourself organized?
•If you had to choose one, would you consider yourself a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person?
•Tell me about your proudest achievement.
•Who was your favorite manager and why?
•What do you think of your previous boss?
•Was there a person in your career who really made a difference?
•What kind of personality do you work best with and why?
•What are you most proud of?
•What do you like to do?
•What are your lifelong dreams?
•What do you ultimately want to become?
•What is your personal mission statement?
•What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?
•What negative thing would your last boss say about you?
•What three character traits would your friends use to describe
•If you were interviewing someone for this position, what traits would you look for?
•List five words that describe your character. •Who has impacted you most in your career and how?
•What is your greatest fear?
•What is your biggest regret and why?
•What's the most important thing you learned in school? Why did you choose your major? you?
•What are three positive character traits you don't have?
• By Thad Peterson, Monster Staff Writer While there are as many different possible interview questions as there are interviewers, it always helps to be ready for anything. So we've prepared a list of 100 potential interview questions. Will you face them all? We pray no interviewer would be that cruel. Will you face a few? Probably. Will you be well-served by being ready even if you're not asked these exact questions? Absolutely.
Tell me about yourself.
•What are your strengths?
•What are your weaknesses?
•Why do you want this job?
•Where would you like to be in your career five years from now?
•What's your ideal company
•What attracted you to this company?
Basic Interview Questions
Why should we hire you? •
What did you like least about your last job?
•When were you most satisfied in your job?
•What can you do for us that other candidates can't?
•What were the responsibilities of your last position?
•Why are you leaving your present job?
•What do you know about this industry?
•What do you know about our company?
•Are you willing to relocate?
Behavioral Interview Questions:
Do you have any questions for me? •
What was the last project you headed up, and what was its outcome?
•Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work.
•Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?
•Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight?
How did you handle it?
•Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it?
•What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?
•What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it?
•If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you do?
•What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it?
•Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it?
•What's the most difficult decision you've made in the last two years and how did you come to that decision?
•Describe how you would handle a situation if you were required to finish multiple tasks by the end of the day, and there was no conceivable way that you could finish them.
•Salary Questions:
What salary are you seeking? •
How would you describe your work style?
•What would be your ideal working environment?
•What do you look for in terms of culture -- structured or entrepreneurial?
•Give examples of ideas you've had or implemented.
•What techniques and tools do you use to keep yourself organized?
•If you had to choose one, would you consider yourself a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person?
•Tell me about your proudest achievement.
•Who was your favorite manager and why?
•What do you think of your previous boss?
•Was there a person in your career who really made a difference?
•What kind of personality do you work best with and why?
•What are you most proud of?
•What do you like to do?
•What are your lifelong dreams?
•What do you ultimately want to become?
•What is your personal mission statement?
•What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?
•What negative thing would your last boss say about you?
•What three character traits would your friends use to describe
•If you were interviewing someone for this position, what traits would you look for?
•List five words that describe your character. •Who has impacted you most in your career and how?
•What is your greatest fear?
•What is your biggest regret and why?
•What's the most important thing you learned in school? Why did you choose your major? you?
•What are three positive character traits you don't have?