Candidates - Tips & Hints
Questions Commonly Asked at Interview
- Why do you feel you are suitable for this position?
- Tell me more about yourself...
- What sort of job would you really like?
- Are you ready for a job like this?
- Do you have a career aim?
- What motivates you?
- Why do you want to work for this company?
- What are your short-term goals?
- What are you looking for in a job?
- Do you work well under pressure?
- Do you prefer working independently or in a team?
- What are the three most important accomplishments in your career?
- What is your greatest strength? Weakness?
- How would you describe your personality?
- How do you get along with your subordinates?
- Are you considering other positions?
- Why do you feel you have the potential for further promotion?
- Why did you study ______________ at college?
- Do you think your status and salary reflect your true abilities?
- How did you get along with your last boss?
- Did you enjoy working for your last employer?
- How can you contribute to this company?
- Why do you want to leave your present company?
- Does your present employer know you are planning to leave?
- How do you think you will fit in with our firm?
- If you were starting all over again, what field would you choose?
- What did you like best about your last (present) role?
- What did you like least about your last (present) role?
- How would you describe your ideal boss?
- What do you consider to be the disadvantages of your chosen field?
- Do you feel you could have done more in your last job?
- What is the most difficult task you have ever completed?
- What is the most rewarding task you have ever completed?
- What do people say about you?
- How would this job compare with your last or present job?
- What was your biggest mistake or error of judgement?
- What are your leisure interests?
- How did you happen to get into the field of ______________?
- Why are you changing fields?
- What holidays do you expect to take?
- Are you considered by friends to be ambitious?
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