Sample Interview Questions

OPENERS

• Tell me about your favorite position, and what role your boss played in making it so unique?
• Tell me about your least favorite position.

ACHIEVEMENT-FOCUSED QUESTIONS

• What makes you stand out amongst your peers?
• What has been your proudest accomplishment? Tell me all about it.
• What would your current boss say makes you most valuable to him/her?

"PRESSURE-COOKER" QUESTIONS

• Tell me about your last performance appraisal. In which area(s) were you most disappointed?
• Where do you disagree with your boss most often? How did you handle the last time he/she was wrong and you were right?
• Were you ever in a situation where you had too many things to do in the time available? What happened and how did you handle it?
• What was you worst mistake last year, and how did you deal with it?
• How do you work with new and weak members of your group?
• What kind of people do you feel represent a challenge to work with and how do you best deal with them?

BEHAVIORAL QUESTIONS

• Tell me about the most difficult assignment you ever had. How did you go about completing it?
• Tell me about a situation in which your boss was upset with the way you did something. How did you handle your boss?
• For management-level applicants-Tell me about a particularly difficult employee you were able to turn around and help to become a good, solid worker.
• Tell me about a decision you made on the job that did not work out well. How did you make that decision? What would you have done differently in retrospect?