Interview - Frequently Asked Questions

by Stephanie Blye

The next interview questions collection includes

general questions

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targeted questions

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specific questions

and other:

  • How would you describe yourself?
  • What are your objectives in life? Including the ones related to your career.
  • Describe the ideal job/position for you.
  • Why did you choose this career?
  • When did you decide to follo9w this career?
  • What do you think you need in order to be successful in this career?
  • How do you determine and evaluate success? Mention one of your successful achievements.
  • Do you consider you have all the qualities and personal characteristics this career requires for?
  • What are your strengths/weaknesses?
  • What is your biggest accomplishment up to now?
  • Do you work better in a team or alone?



  • What motivates you to be the best on a certain position?
  • Taking into account the financial effort our company is ready to make in order to have you as an employee, why should we hire you?
  • Do you consider yourself driven by the purposes you wish to achieve?
  • Mention a personal objective and describe the way in which you have achieved it.
  • What are some of your personal short-period objectives?
  • Where do you think you would be in five years?
  • How do you measure your ability of coping with situations of crisis?
  • Have you ever had an interpersonal conflict with one of your co-workers or with a supervisor/boss? Describe the nature of this conflict and how you have solved it.
  • Tell me about a recent problem you have dealt with. Have you selved it successfully?
  • Do you consider you can manage pressure situations relatively easy?
  • Which of your skills and abilities have the greatest importance in the building of your career?
  • Why did you choose the college you have followed?
  • How does the college you attend help you in your career?
  • What courses and classes did you like best during college? Why?
  • What do you intend to do after college, from the point of view of your studies?



  • In order to have a productive contribution to our company, what kind of training do you think you should get?
  • Describe the qualities of a good manager.
  • Why did you choose to work in this domain?
  • Tell me something about our company.
  • Why do you want to work here?
  • Would you be willing to change your location if offered a job?
  • How much are you willing to travel for this job?
  • What's more important to you: the job itself or the salary?
  • What kind of renumeration do you expect?
  • Describe a situation in which you have better used your persuasive skills upon a person, in order to make her see things the way you do.
  • Describe a situation in which you had to make a decision in a very short period of time
  • Prove it to me that you can handle any type of person and situation.
  • Describe a period of time in which you were stressed and had personal problems which tested your capacity of successfully handling them.
  • Describe a situation in which a co-worker you worked together with within a project did not do his job. Did you tell anybody? And if so, did the manager take any measures? Do you think the manager took the correct measures?