No company hiring manager or interview team will have the time or interest to ask more than a fraction of these questions. But reviewing and preparing for any eventuality will give you an advantage over your competition!
- Tell me about a time when you were a member of a great team. What role did you play in making the team great?
- Tell me about a time when you were given a task to accomplish without any direction.
- Tell me about a time when you had to work with someone you did not get along with.
- Tell me about a time when you felt that a decision was unfair. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time when someone asked you for assistance outside the parameters of your job. What did you do?
- Tell me about a time you had to multitask.
- Tell me about a time when you were creative in solving a problem.
- Tell me about a time when you were the leader of a team and the team disagreed with your decision. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time when you were a team leader and had to mediate with members who disagreed with each other.
- Tell me about a project that did not go well.
- Tell me about a time that you worked hard to accomplish something but didn’t.
- Tell me about a time when you suggested a better way to do something.
- Tell me about a time when you had to handle conflict within your group.
- You are a team member and you disagree with an important decision that you believe will have a negative impact on the project. How will you proceed?
- Tell me about a time when someone told you that you had made an error. Describe how you would react and what you would say in your defense.
- You are a new employee at our firm and I have asked you to speak to a group of 10 employees. What would you talk about and what would you say?
- You are part of a team working on a project with a one-week deadline. The team leader does not seem to be on top of things and you are worried about reaching the deadline. What do you do?
- How do you handle a crisis? Describe one that you handled well.
- Describe one that you didn’t handle well and what you would have done differently.
- It’s five o’clock on Friday and your supervisor gives you an assignment that needs to be finished by 8:00 am Monday morning. You have plans to be away for the weekend. What do you do?
- Describe a situation that was a great learning experience.
- Describe a challenge you faced in school and how you handled it.
- Describe an experience that you felt was rewarding.
- Describe a situation where you were mentored.
- Describe a situation where you were given feedback on your performance that wasn’t what you had hoped for.
- Describe a situation where you resolved a problem.
- What would your last boss/manager say about you?
- How would your co-workers describe you?
- What do you think is the best part of working in teams?
- What do you think is the worst part of working in a team?
- How do you define “work ethic”? How would you describe yours?
- How do you make decisions?
- What type of people do you like to work with?
- What motivates you?
- Give me 10 adjectives to describe yourself.
- How do you like to be managed?
- Tell me about your best manager. Why do you consider them the “best”?
- Tell me about your worst manager. Why do you consider them the “worst”?
- What book are you reading now?
- What books have you read about leadership?
- Describe your ideal job.
- What was the most creative thing you have ever done?
- What are you most proud of?
- How do you handle stress at work?
- What would you liked to have done more of in your last internship?
- What would you like to have done less of in your last internship?
- Why did you choose your last job/internship?
- Why did you choose your school?
- If you could have done anything different during your college career, what would it have been?
- What are your short- and long-term career goals?
- In what areas would you like to develop further?
- What skills did it take to succeed in your internships?
- What do you know about our company?
- What makes you the best candidate?
- Why should we hire you?
- What made you apply for this job?
- Where else are you interviewing?
- How would you describe client satisfaction?
- What do you think is most important in great customer service?
- What will you do if you don’t get this job?