This document provides a sample list of interview questions categorized into various topics that could be asked during a job interview. The questions cover areas such as work history, job performance, education, self-assessment, career goals, creativity, decisiveness, interests, motivation, work standards, leadership, presentation skills, flexibility, stress tolerance, stability, self-development, and a note not to ask discriminatory questions. Some example questions include asking about accomplishments and disappointments, evaluating past job performance, education/training relevant to the job, strengths and weaknesses, goals, creative work, decision making examples, civic involvement, defining success, and coping with stress and change.

1. APPENDIX E
Sample INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
KILLER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Warm-up Questions
o What made you apply for this position?
o How did you hear about this job opening?
o Can you briefly summarize your work history and education for me?
Work History
o Can you describe for me one or two of your most important accomplishments?
o Describe for me one or two of the biggest disappointment in your work history?
o Why are you leaving your present job? (or why did you leave your last job?)
Job Performance
o Do you prefer to work alone or in groups?
o What would you say is the most important thing you are looking for in a job? Why?
o How did your supervisor on your most recent job evaluate your job performance? What were
some of the high points & low points of that rating?
Education
o What special aspects of your education or training have prepared you for this job?
o What courses in school have been most helpful in doing your job?
Self-Assessment
o What aspect of work provides you with the greatest satisfaction?
o What aspects of work frustrate you most? How do you usually cope with them?
o What are your exceptional abilities? (The things that you do best.)
Career-Goals
o Can you pinpoint any specific things in your past experience that affected your present career
objectives?
o Why might you be successful in this job?
o What might make you leave this job?
Creativity
o In your work experience, what have you done that you consider truly creative?
o Of your creative accomplishments big or small, at work or home, what gave you the most
satisfaction?
o What kind of problems have people recently called on you to solve? Tell me what you have
devised.
Decisiveness
o Do you consider yourself to be thoughtful, analytical or do you usually make up your mind fast?
Give an example.
o The last time you did not know what decision to make, what did you do?
o What was the last major problem that you confronted? What action did you take?
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2. APPENDIX E
Sample INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
Range of Interests
o To what organizations do you belong?
o How do you keep up with what’s going on in your company/industry/profession?
o Tell me specifically what you do in the civic activities in which you participate.
Motivation
o What is your professional goal?
o Can you give me examples of experience on the job that you felt were satisfying?
o Did you achieve the goals you had set for yourself within the past year?
o I’m not convinced that you are right for this job, what do you think?
Work Standards
o What are your standards of success in your job?
o In your position, how would you define success? On what basis did you determine your
definition?
o When judging the performance of your subordinate, what factors or characteristics are most
important to you?
Leadership
o What specifically do you do to set an example for your employee’s?
o How frequently do you meet with your immediate subordinates as a group?
o How do you get people who do not want to work together to establish a common approach to a
problem?
Oral Presentation Skills
o Have you ever done any public or group speaking? Recently? Why? How did it go?
o Have you made any individual presentations recently? How did you prepare?
Written Communication Skills
o Would you rather write a report or give a verbal report? Why?
o What kind of writing have you done? For a group? For an individual?
o What is the extent of your participation in major written reports?
Flexibility
o How do you feel when you hear the word CHANGE?
o What do you think about continuous changes in company operating policies & procedures?
o How effective has your company been in adapting its policies to fit a changing environment?
Stress Tolerance
o How would you react if I told you that your interview, so far, was terrible?
o What is the worst thing you have heard about our company?
o Do you feel pressure in your job? Tell me about it.
o What has been the highest-pressure situation you have been under in recent years? How did you
cope with it?
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3. APPENDIX E
Sample INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
Stability & Maturity
o Describe your most significant success & failure in the last two years.
o What do you like to do most?
o What do you like to do least?
Interest in Self Development
o What has been the most influential person or event in your self-development?
o How much of your education did you earn?
o What kind of books & other publications do you read?
o What was the last book you read or the last movie you saw and how did it affect you?
DON’T ASK
“Questions may not be asked for the purpose of discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, birthplace, age or physical disability.”
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