How to Conduct a Job Interview
Sample Interviewing Questions
- What were/are your last/present
job duties?
- Could you describe a typical day
at your past/present job?
- What attracted you to this type
of work?
- What aspects of the job were challenging?
- What aspects of the job gave you
the most trouble? Why?
- If you had it to do all over again,
would you still go into the same kind of work? Why? Why not?
- How do you feel about the progress
you made?
- Why did you decide to make a change?
- What might be the toughest aspects
of the job if you were to accept the position? What will be the
most enjoyable aspects? The least enjoyable?
- What do you think your greatest
contribution to the job will be? Where and how do you think you
would be able to make your greatest contribution?
- What do you feel were your most
significant accomplishments on the job?
- Which of your accomplishments in
your past/present position are you most proud?
- What personal accomplishments and
attributes make you the proudest?
- What are your goals in your present
position for the next one, two and three years?
- What would you have liked to accomplish
in your present position that you were not able to? What prevented
you from accomplishing these goals?
- What made you decide on majoring
in that particular field?
- Were there any accomplishments you
felt particularly proud of at school?
For Recent College Graduates
- How did you feel about the college
you attended?
- To what extent did it live up to
your expectations?
- What made you decide on majoring
in that particular field?
- Were there any accomplishments you
felt particularly proud of at school?
