Sample Comprehensive List of Interview...

WARM-UP QUESTIONS

• 1. What made you apply for this position?
• 2. How did you hear bout this job opening?
• 3. Briefly, would you summarize your work history and education for us?



WORK HISTORY



• 1. What special aspects of your work experience have prepared you for this job?
• 2. Can you describe for me one or two of your most important accomplishments?
• 3. How much supervision have you typically received in your previous job?
• 4. Describe for me one or two of the biggest disappointments I your work history?
• 5. What are you leaving your present job? Or why did you leave your last job?
• 6. What is important to you in a company? What things do you look for in an organization?



JOB PERFORMANCE



• 1. Everyone has strengths & weakness as workers. What are your strong points for this job?
• 2. What would you say are the areas needing improvement?
• 3. How did you supervisor on your most recent job evaluate your job performance? What were some of the good points and bad points of that rating?
• 4. When you have been told, or discovered for yourself, a problem in your job performance, what have you typically done? Can you give us an example?
• 5. Do you prefer working alone or in groups?
• 6. What kind of people do you find most difficult tot work with and why?
• 7. Starting with your last job, tell us about any of your achievements that were recognized by your supervisors
• 8. Can you give me an example of your ability to manage or supervise others?
• 9. What are some things you would like to avoid in a job? Why?
• 10. In your previous job, what kind of pressure did you encounter?
• 11. What would you say is the most important thing you are looking for in a job?
• 12. What are some of the things in a job you feel you have done particularly well or in which you have achieved the greatest success? Why do you feel this way?
• 13. What were some of the things about your last job that you found most difficult to do?
• 14. What are some of the problems you encounter in doing your job? Which one frustrates you the most? What do you usually do about it?
• 15. What are some things you particularly liked about your lat job?
• 16. Do you consider your progress on the job representative of your ability? Why?
• 17. How do you feel about the way you and others in the department were managed by your supervisor?
• 18. If I were to ask your present (most recent) employer about your ability as a ________ what would he/she say?



EDUCATION



• 1. What special aspects of your education or training have prepared you for this job?
• 2. What courses in school have been of most help in doing your job?



CAREER-GOALS



• 1. What is your long-term employment or career objectives?
• 2. What kind of job do you see yourself holding five years from now?
• 3. What do you feel you need to develop in terms of skill and knowledge in order to be ready for that opportunity?
• 4. Why might you be successful in such a job?
• 5. How does this job fit in with your overall career goals?
• 6. Who or what in your life would you say influenced your most with your career objectives?
• 7. Can you pinpoint any specific things in your past experience that affected your present career objectives?
• 8. What would you most like to accomplish if you had this job?
• 9. What might make you leave this job?



SELF-ASSESSMENT



• 1. What kind of things do you feel most confident in doing?
• 2. Can you describe for me a difficult obstacle you have had to overcome? How did you handle it? How do you feel this experience affected your personality or ability?
• 3. How would you describe yourself as a person?
• 4. What do you consider to be your greatest achievements to date? Why?
• 5. What things give you the greatest satisfaction at work?
• 6. What things frustrate you the most? How do you usually cope with them?



CREATIVITY



• 1. In your work experience, what have you done that you considered truly creative?
• 2. Can you think of a problem you have encountered when the old solutions didn’t work and when you came up with new solutions?
• 3. Of your creative accomplishments big or small, at work or at home, what gave you the most satisfaction?
• 4. What kind of problems have people recently called on you to solve? Tell us how you solved them.



DECISIVENESS



• 1. Do you consider yourself to be thoughtful, analytical or do you usually make up your mind fast? Give an example ( what time taken to respond)
• 2. What was your most difficult decision in the last six months? What made it difficult?
• 3. The last time you did not know what decision to make, what did you do?
• 4. How do you go about making an important decision affecting your career?
• 5. What was the last major problem that you were confronted with? What action did you take on it?



RANGE OF INTERSETS



• 1. What organizations do you belong to?
• 2. Tell us specifically what you do in the civic activities in which you participate. (leading questions in selected areas i.e. sports, economics, current events, finance, etc.)
• 3. How do you keep up with what’s going on in your company/your industry/your profession?