Sample Interview Questions

Top Interview Questions

I/ Top 10 interview questions

1. Describe your ideal job and/or boss?

2. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

3. Describe some of your most important career accomplishments?

4. What are your short-term/long-term goals?

5. Describe a time when you were faced with a challenging situation and how you handled it?

6. What are your salary requirements?

7. What would your former boss/colleagues say about you?

8. What do you know about our company?

9. Why do you want this job?

10. Where do you want to be in five years?

II/ Top 20 interview questions

1. How does your job fit in to your department and company?

2. Give an example of when you have worked under pressure?

3. What kinds of people do you like working with?

4. Give me an example of when your work was criticized?

5. Give me an example of when you have felt anger at work. How did you cope and did you still perform a good job?

6. What kind of people do you find it difficult to work with?

7. Give me an example of when you have had to face a conflict of interest at work?

8. Tell me about the last time you disagreed with your boss?

9. Give me an example of when you haven’t got on with others?

10. Do you prefer to work alone or in a group? Why?

11. This organization is very different to your current employer – how do you think you are going to fit in?

12. What are you looking for in a company?

13. How do you measure your own performance?

14. What kind of pressures have you encountered at work?

15. Are you a self-starter? Give me examples to demonstrate this?

16. What changes in the workplace have caused you difficulty and why?

17. How do you feel about working long hours and/or weekends?

18. Give me an example of when you have been out of your depth?

19. What have you failed to achieve to date?

20. What can you bring to this organization?

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Illegal Interview Questions

I/ Overview of illegal interview questions

The employers should not ask illegal interview questions because this is a rule of local labor low, code of conduct issued by company itself or customers.

II/ Types of illegal interview questions

Employers should not ask about any of the following, because to not hire a candidate because of any one of them is discriminatory:
1. Race
2. Color
3. Sex
4. Religion
5. National origin
6. Birthplace
7. Age
8. Disability
9. Marital/family status

III/ Sample list of illegal interview questions

1. How old are you?

2. When is your birthday?

3. In what year were you born?

4. In what year did you graduate from college/high school?

5. Are you married or do you have a permanent partner?

6. With whom do you live?

7. How many children do you have?

8. Are you pregnant?

9. Do you expect to become have a family? When?

10. How many children will you have?

11. How tall are you?

12. How much do you weigh?

13. Do you have any disabilities?

14. Have you had any recent illness or operations?

15. Please complete this medical questionnaire?

16. What was the date of your last physical exam?

17. How’s your family’s health?

18. When did you lose your eyesight/ leg/ hearing/ etc.?

19. Where were you/your parents born?

20. What is your native language?

21. What is your country of citizenship?

22. Are you a Canadian citizen?

23. Have you ever been arrested?

24. What clubs or social organizations do you belong to?

25. Do you go to church?

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Good Interview Questions

It include 36 good interview questions as follows:

1. Good personal goal questions

• Why are you interested in leaving your current assignment and why do you feel that this assignment would be better for you?
• Describe tow or three major trends in your profession today.
• Why did you choose this profession/field?
• Describe the best boss and the worse boss you have ever had.

2. Good experience questions

• Tell us a little more about your professional experience, particularly those not mentioned on your CV

3. Good competencies questions

• What qualities or experience make you the best candidate for this position?
• Describe a situation in which you did “all the right things” and were still unsuccessful. What did you learn from the experience?
• Can you describe how you go about solving problems? Please give us some examples.
• What is the biggest conflict you have ever been involved in at work? How did you handle that situation?
• Describe some basic steps that you would take in implementing a new program
• Tell us how you go about organizing your work. Also, describe an experience you have had with computers or other tools as they relate to organization.

4. Good education questions

• What new skills have you learned over the past year?
• Tell us how you would learn your new job in the absence of a formal training program
• Can you share with us your ideas about professional development?

5. Good new job questions

• How does this position fit into your overall career goals?
• What do you dislike most about your current job?
• On the basis of the information you have received so far, what do you see as the major challenges of this position and how would you meet them?
• Do you have any questions for us?

6. Good questions for candidates to ask employer

• What is the rate of turnover in the department I am applying to work in?
• What is the best way to advance in this company?
• Do you feel this company is financially sound?
• How much do you think this company will grow in the next 3-5 years?
• What kind of projects and assignments will I be working on?
• Can you tell me what happened to the last person that held this position?
• How would you describe this company’s personality?
• Are there any current problems facing the company or the department with the job opening?
• What are the top five things you like about working for this company? Are there any things that you do not like?
• What are your company’s strengths?
• Do you feel your company has any weaknesses?
• What aspects of this organization made you want to work for them?
• Does your company offer any job training opportunities or professional development?
• Is there job training for this position?
• Which departments will I be working most closely with?
• Can you tell me what do you like about working for this company?
• Does your company have any current plans for expansion or cutbacks?
• How would you describe your company’s management style

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Common Interview Questions

It include 60 most common job interview questions as follows:

1. Common general questions

• Tell me a little about yourself.
• Why should I hire you?
• How do you define success?
• Where would you like to be in five years? Ten years?
• Describe your personality.
• What past accomplishments have given you satisfaction? Why?
• What made you choose to apply to this position?
• Why do you want to leave your current position?

2. Common last job questions

• Why did you leave your last job?
• Tell me about your last position and what you did?
• If you don’t leave your current job, what will happen there? How far can you advance?
• What did/do you enjoy most/least about your last/p resent job?

3. Common new job questions

• What are you looking for in a job?
• What kind of people do you like to work with?
• What type of work environment do you prefer?
• Do you have any questions for me?
• What do you know about this position?
• What do you know about this company?
• Explain why you are qualified for this job.
• Are you looking for a permanent or temporary job? Why?

4. Common experience questions

• How would you define a great work environment?
• Have you ever worked for a difficult person?
• Have you mostly worked alone or in groups?
• How many projects can you handle at one time?
• What was your workload in your current/last position?
• What are some things you find difficult to do on the job? Why?

5. Common education questions

• What tertiary qualifications have you attained?
• What if (if any) self improvement courses have you attended?
• What certificates have you attained?
• What is the most recent skill you have learned?
• What have you learned from your past jobs?

6. Common competencies questions

• What are your strengths?
• What is your weakness?

7. Common behavioral questions

• How do you work with new people?
• We have a problem with “______”. How would you handle this problem?
• Are you a persistent person? Give me an example of this, if so.
• Where do you stand with your former employer?
• Explain a difficult situation in which you were involved and how you handled it.

8. Common stressful questions

• How long have you been looking for a new job? Why?
• How long would you stay with us?
• Have you ever had problems getting along with others?
• What can I tell you about my organization?
• What can you bring to the table that someone else could not?
• What outside interests do you pursue?
• Do you have any reservations about the job of the company?

9. Common goal setting questions

• What (exactly) do you want to achieve?
• Who needs to be involved in this goal process in order to accomplish it successfully?
• Why invest time and energy into this goal?
• Why would this goal relate to purpose, vision, or organizational values?
• Who possesses the skills and talent necessary to meet the goal or do we need to train?

10. Common management skills questions

• How do you handle a subordinate whose work is not up to expectations?
• How do you coach a subordinate to develop a new skill?
• What have you done to develop the skills of your staff?
• When do you give positive feedback to people? Tell me about the last time you did?
• Give an example of how you handle the need for constructive criticism with a subordinate or peer?

11. Common conflict resolution questions

• What Is conflict resolution?
• Tell me about a situation when you were given job instructions and you were unable to comprehend the instructions. How did you go about completing the task?
• What types of disputes can be addressed through conflict resolution?

12. Wage negotiation

• What kind of salary do you need?

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Difficult Interview Questions about Candidates their Self

10 difficult interview questions about candidates their self

I. Contents of difficult interview questions

Questions below will help you interview candidates about candidates their self at difficult level.

II. Difficult interview questions of candidates their self

1. How many hours a day/week do you need to work to get the job done?

2. If you stayed with your current company, what would be your next move?

3. How do you measure success?

4. Describe a job that would be your worst nightmare?

5. Where do you see yourself in ten years?

6. What is your long-range objective?

7. How do you balance life and work?

8. What is your favorite book? How about your favorite movie?

9. What did you do during this six month gap in employment?

10. What do you feel this position should pay?

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Difficult Interview Questions about Management

12 difficult interview questions about management

I. Contents of difficult interview questions

Questions below will help you interview candidates about their management skill at difficult level.

II. Difficult interview questions of management skill

1. What do you look for when you hire people?

2. Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a co-worker who wasn’t doing his/her fair share of the work. What did you do and what was the outcome?

3. Are you a good manager? Can you give me some examples? Do you feel that you have top managerial potential?

4. Give me an example of a time when you took the time to share a co-worker’s or supervisor’s achievements with others?

5. Tell me about a time that you misjudged a person?

6. How do you get along with older (younger) co-workers?

7. What is your management style?

8. How do you deal with authority?

9. What qualities do you feel a successful manager should have?

10. What is your biggest strength as a manager?

11. How to do measure your own effectiveness?

12. Have you worked with someone you didn’t like? If so, how did you handle it?

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Difficult Interview Questions

9 difficult interview questions about new job.

I. Contents of difficult interview questions

Questions below will help you interview candidates about their new job at difficult level.

II. Difficult interview questions of new job

1. How long would it take you to make a meaningful contribution to our firm?

2. How long would you stay with us?

3. Please give me your definition of the position for which you are being interviewed?

4. What important trends do you see in our industry?

5. Why do you want to work for us?

6. What do you know about our organization?

7. Why do you want to work here?

8. How would you evaluate your present firm?

9. Do you have any questions?

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Stress Interview Questions

It include 27 Stress questions as follows:

1. Direct stress questions

• Do you consider standing in a line as stressed work?
• Define stress and when do you get stressed out?
• Are you able to work under stress?
• Please give us an example about you work with a team that faced stress from your experience?
• Why do you think it will conduce stress?
• What is the worst thing when you faced with stress?
• Which transaction is not good for your colleagues whom also faced the stress at the same time?
• How do you handle stress? What is the best thin or work you do when you are stressed out?

2. Stress questions by conflict

• Okay, if that’s the best answer you can give me. Then what about this question…?
• I don’t really feel like your answering the question. Could you please clarify / could you please start again?”

3. Stress questions Pressure

• How do you handle rejection?
• What is the worst thing that you have heard about our company?

4. Other stress questions

• Why are manhole covers round?
• Why did you switch to political science? Is it because you couldn’t handle engineering? Why did you do so poorly on this test?
• What kinds of people do you find it difficult to work with?
• What are some of the things that you find difficult to do?
• How would you evaluate me as an interviewer?
• What interests you least about this job?
• See this pen I’m holding? Sell it to me.
• You need to work a full whole one month because of quarter results nearby what reason will you give to exempt from the work?
• If you are a leader of the team, what could you do better than the truly leader?
• What do you think that you have learned from it?
• Would you like to have your boss’s job?
• Why should I hire an outsider when I could fill the job with someone inside the company?
• Why were you out of work for so long?
• If you caught a student cheating on their test, what would you do?
• How do you feel this interview is going?

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Behavioral Interview Questions

1. Interview questions of knowledge and education

  • It include 15 interview questions about knowledge and education.

2. Interview questions of working experiences

  • It include 30 interview questions about experience.

3. Interview questions of soft skills

  • Negotiation skill
  • Time management
  • Analytical skill
  • Interpersonal skill
  • Decision making
  • Problem solving
  • Persuasion skills
  • Communication skills

4. Interview questions of management and leadership skills

  • Conflict resolution
  • Motivation skill
  • Goal Setting
  • Change management
  • Strategic planning
  • Coaching skill
  • Leadership skill
  • Management skills
  • Manager interview questions
  • Planning skills
  • Organizing skills
  • Controlling skills
  • Delegation skills
  • Executive interview questions

5. Interview questions of abilities and personalities

  • Employee ambition
  • Initiative / creativity ability
  • Team work
  • Pressure ability

6. Competency-based interview questions

It include general interview questions about Competency-based.

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Situational Interview Questions

Situational Interview Questions

1. What is Situational interview?

Situational interview in the interview in which, the candidates are asked for their opinions on certain situations that may arise in relation to the job. The candidates are supposed to give their opinions and provide solutions to such hypothetical situations.

The purpose of a situational interview is to evaluate the candidate’s problem solving skill in the workplace environment. A typical tip to address such situations is to tell a story of your previous experience in which, you have dealt with a similar problem.

2. Steps to answer situational questions

• Describe the objectives of the situation and method to resolve it;

• List down steps to resolve the situation;

• Recommend measures to prevent and correct the situations.

3. Some examples of situational interview

• Your colleague was repeatedly making mistakes that affect on the customer service and your ability to do your work. You talked to this colleague about the problem but he kept making mistakes again. What would you do next?

• You figured out that an employee was stealing from the company. What would you do?

• Have you ever worked with a client who seemed dislike you? How did you do under such a situation?

• Have you ever been in a situation in which the customers have difficulties describing their needs? How did you do under such a situation?

• Describe a difficult decision you had to make with assistance with your managers?

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