Interview Questions
Use these questions as a guide as you prepare for your interview.
Essential Questions you must be prepared to answer:
1. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
2. Why are you the best person for this position?
3. Why will you be successful at this company?
4. What motivates you?
5. Where do you want to be in five years? Ten years?
6. What is the single most important thing I should know about you?
Frequently Asked Questions
General Questions about you and your background
What is the most difficult challenge you have faced in your life?
Tell me about yourself.
Why are you interested in this field?
What do you do to relax?
Describe a stressful situation that you have excelled in.
What are you most proud of in your life? Why?
Describe your perfect job.
How would co-workers and previous managers describe you?
How do you define success?
Questions about your education
Why did you choose your major?
Why did you choose to attend your college?
Do you feel you received a good education? Why? Why not?
What activities meant the most to you during college?
What was your favorite class in your major? Why?
What was your least favorite? Why?
What was your favorite elective class? Why?
What was your least favorite? Why?
Questions about your skills, qualifications and experience
What skills would you bring to this position?
What were three important responsibilities in your last job?
Describe a time when you took initiative.
Why should I hire you?
Example based Questions
Tell me about a difficult decision you have made.
Tell me about a time when you disagreed with a manager. What was the nature of the disagreement? What did you do about it?
How would you describe your most recent boss? . . .your ideal boss?
Things can get stressful around here as they do in most businesses. Can you give me an example of how your coping skills were tested when things became stressful on a job?
What aspect of your last job did you enjoy the most? The least?
Describe a time on a job when you made a mistake. What did you do about it and what did you learn from it?
Describe a situation when you were faced with conflicting priorities. How did you determine what was important and the order in which you would get each task done?
We all occasionally miss deadlines. I≠m interested in hearing about a time when this happened to you. What happened, and how did you handle the fallout?
Questions about the position/company
Why do you think you would be an asset to our company?
What do you know about our industry?
Why do you want this job?
