About the Company
- Why would you want to work for us?
- What do you know about our company?
- How do your skills fit this job opening?
- Do any of your friends or relatives work here?
- Have you ever handled money or confidential information?
- Have you ever been bonded?
- What do you know about our company and where it stands within our particular field?
- How would our company gain by hiring you?
- Based on your knowledge of the field, who would you say are our major competitors?
- What position would you like to hold ten years from now?
- Why would you like to work for our company?
- Have you ever worked for this company under another name?
- How would you define your long-range goals and objectives?
- How does your experience qualify you for this job?
- If you are presently working, why would you want to change jobs at this time?
- Here is a problem related to your area of specialty. What could you contribute to its resolution?
- Are you willing and able to work overtime? Under what circumstances?
- How do you feel about relocating?
- Are you willing to take a lie detector test as a condition of being hired?
- Would you have any interest in working flex-time, part-time, or some schedule other than a regular work week?
- We require medical examinations as a condition of employment. Are you willing to have such an examination by a doctor we select?
- If hired, when would you be able to start working?
- Would you have any problems commuting, getting in on time, working a full day, or maintaining good attendance?
- How long would you plan to stay with our company?
- Why did you choose this field?
- What special job-related skills do you have?
- What personal and professional traits do you feel are essential for success in your field?
- How did your previous employer treat you?
- How did you secure your previous job?
- Were you ever dismissed from a job? For what reason?
- How do you happen to be unemployed at the moment?
- Does your employer know you are looking for another job?
- What type of work do you do best or enjoy most and least?
- Which of your former employers did you like best and why?
- Why are you no longer there?
- You seem to have held the same job for a long time without a promotion. What can you tell me about that?
- Would a lack of advancement opportunities cause you to look elsewhere?
- Have you ever been fired or asked to resign? Explain.
- Can you explain the gaps in your employment history?
- Why have you held so many jobs in such a short period of time?
- What kind of money are you looking for?
- What was your most recent salary?
- Would you ever work without pay? Under what circumstances?
- What supplementary income do you have?
- What was your salary progression in your last job?
- Why are you not making more money at this stage in your life?
- What were your starting and highest salaries on your previous job?
- What salary do you expect with us?
- How important to you is salary in deciding to take a job?
- Do you own life insurance, a car, or a home?
- Describe your financial status and obligations at this time.
- Did you contribute toward your family's finances or your own education?
- Have you maintained a regular savings program?
- How good are you at budgeting?
- What are your outstanding debts right now?
- Why did you select your major?
- Which courses did you like and dislike most?
- What was the most difficult subject and why?
- What was your grade point average in high school and college?
- Are you enrolled in any programs for self-improvement or college credit, or do you plan to enroll in any?
- Have you ever dropped out of a course or out of school?
- What was your major in college, and what minor subjects did you take?
- What courses did you find most exciting and beneficial?
- What courses did you feel were boring or a waste of time?
- How do you spend your spare time?
- How do you spend vacations?
- Of which clubs and organizations are you a member?
- What offices have you held in outside organizations?
- Are such activities worth your time? How much time?
- Describe other outside activities that will demonstrate your leadership skills.
- What do you do to keep in good physical health?
- What do you do for relaxation?
- What was your last boss like?
- What is your style of working?
- What do you want most out of a job?
- How did your previous employer treat you? Please explain.
- What do you know about our firm's management style?
- Where would you like to be after five years? After ten years?
- Are you more comfortable working alone or in large groups?
- If your supervisor were unfair to you or difficult to work with, how would you handle it?
- How well organized are you?
- Do you work better as a member of a team or independently?
- Are you willing to take calculated risks when necessary?
- Would you fire incompetent workers, or keep them but reduce your demands on them if they needed the jobs?
- What personal attributes make for the best supervisor?
- What would your present (or most recent) employer criticize about your work? Be specific.
- What personal sacrifices would you be prepared to make to succeed on the job?
- What is the worst thing that has happened to you in a job? What is the best?
- Do you have mixed emotions about working for a person considerably younger than you are or who makes more money than this position pays?
- What are your major professional strengths? How have you capitalized on them?
- What do you consider to be your major weaknesses? How have they affected you on the job?
- Describe the most difficult work assignment you ever tackled. How did it turn out?
- As a supervisor, what procedure would you follow in recommending the dismissal of a worker who has proved to be inadequate on the job?
- How important do you feel it is to be well-connected?
- What suggestions have you made in previous jobs that helped the organizations?
- What suggestions were turned down, and how do you feel about the outcome?
