1. Tell me about yourself?

2. What is your greatest strength?

3. what can you offer us that someone else can’t?

4. What are your three most important career accomplishments?

5. How would you describe yourself?

6. Why should I hire you?

7. Describe the biggest crisis in your life (career)?

8. What is unique about you?

9. How would your supervisor describe you?

10. Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10.

11. Tell me a story.

12. How have you benefited from disappointments?

13. What is your greatest weakness? (similar to, What do you most need to work on?)

14. Have you ever been fired or asked to resign?

15. Why have you changed jobs so frequently?

16. Why have you been out of work so long? What have you been doing?

17. What is the biggest mistake you ever made?

18. What are your career goals?

19. What do you really want to do in life?

20. How long have you been out of work?

21. What personal, non-job-related goals have you set for yourself?

22. Are you willing to relocate?

23. Are you willing to travel overnight?

24. How do you feel about overtime?

25. What have you learned from your past mistakes? What were some of them?

26. What do you think determines a person’s progress with a good company?

27. Who has exercised the greatest influence on you? How?

28. What public figure do you admire most, and why?

29. What are your primary activities outside of work?

30. Would you have any concern if we did a full background check on you. What would we find?

31. What qualities do you most admire in people?

32. What have you done to increase your personal development?

33. What types of books and magazines do you read?

34. What was the last book you read (movie you saw) and how did it affect you?

35. How do you feel about your career progress?

36. What was the most useful criticism you ever received?

37. What is the biggest change you’ve made in your life in the past ten years?

38. If you won the $5 million lottery today, what would you be doing a year from now?

39. Can you work well under stress?

40. Do you prefer to work individually or as part of a team?

41. Are you a team player?

42. Tell me about the last incident that made you angry. How did you handle it?

43. What are the things that motivate you?

44. How do you handle people that you really don’t get along with?

45. What have you done that shows initiative?

46. What personal qualities are important for success in this field?

47. Sell me this pen.

48. Are you willing to take calculated risks?

49. Can you establish effective methods and procedures?

50. We have some very difficult and demanding customers. Can you handle that?

51. We need someone who is resourceful.

52. What has been your greatest challenge?

53. Describe a team project where you are proud of the team’s result, as well as of your personal contribution.

54. Describe a difficult decision you’ve made, and the process you went through to reach that decision.

55. Give me three qualities that are really helping you get ahead and three qualities you must work on if you are going to achieve your career goals.

56. What is the most important lesson you’ve learned in the last ten years?

57. Describe your perfect job.

58. What is most important to you in a job?

59. Why do you want to change careers?

60. Why do you want to get into this field?

61. Why did you leave your last job?

62. How long will it take before you make a positive contribution to our organization?

63. What do you like least about this position? Most?