The document contains a list of over 100 questions that are commonly asked during job interviews. The questions cover a wide range of topics including work experience, education, skills, strengths, weaknesses, goals, accomplishments, failures, and how the applicant would handle various work-related scenarios. The extensive list appears to be intended as a resource for interviewees to consider and prepare answers in advance of an interview.

1. By: VINCENT RAJ

2.  Tell me about yourself
 How would your professors and previous employers
describe you ?
 Which College did you attend and why did you choose
that college?
 What did you like the most about your college and the
least?
 Do you think you made the right career choice?
 Are you employed and if so why are you thinking of
leaving your current job?
 What didn't you like about the previous jobs you have
held?
 Why are you applying for a job outside your major and
area of specialization?
 What courses in the college did you like the most? And
the least and why?

3.  Why are you interested in this job or why do you
like to work for our organization?
 What unique abilities, qualifications and
experience do you have for this job?
 What are your greatest strengths and
achievements?
 What are your greatest weaknesses?
 Did you ever change your major in the college? if so
why ?
 How would you describe yourself?
 Tell me something about yourself that I won't find
on your resume.
 What do you know about our company?

4.  What do you know about our products or services?
 How did your previous work experience prepare you
for this position?
 Which aspect of your education has prepared you
most for this position?
 Which of your college years was the toughest? Why?
 Why did you choose to find your particular college?
 How does your college education or work experience
relate to this job?
 What types of extracurricular activities did you
participate in while you were in school and college?

5.  Do you think your GPA in the university
examinations accurately reflects your ability?
Why or why not?
 Who has financed your college education?
 Are you planning to go for further studies?
 Why should we hire you or in what specific
ways will our company benefit from hiring
you?
 What are your long - run career plans and
objectives?
 What do you expect to be doing in 5 years and
10 years from now?
 What types of work do you enjoy doing most?
Least?

6.  Why did you choose your particular field of work?
 Do you have any experience in working with teams or social
organizations?
 What do you think about the present position of this industry? Or what
three trends do you observe in the future for our industry?
 What accomplishment has given you the greatest satisfaction?
 Why do you think you would enjoy this particular job?
 Specifically, how does your education or experience relate to this job?
 How did you come to know about this job in our organization? Or how
did you learn about this job opening?
 Are you a member of any club or social organization?
 What sort of work did your parents do?
 Why do you want to change your job?
 Have you ever been fired? And if so why?
 Have you ever held a part time job?
 What did you do during summers in your college?
 Have you ever done any volunteer work?

7.  What was the most interesting or satisfying job you have ever
held? Why?
 Who was your best manager or professor? Why did you like him
or her the most? Or describe the best supervisor you ever had?
 What special skills and experience you bring to our organization?
 What is your current salary?
 What salary do you expect for this position?
 How do you define and measure success?
 Do you prefer working alone or in teams?
 Are you ready to relocate? Or would you be willing to relocate in
the future?
 Would you like to travel?
 Why do you prefer to work here? or why are you interested in
this job ?

8.  Why should we hire you?
 Do you know any of the staff members of our
organization? Or do any of your friends or relatives work
for this company?
 Why do you like to take up this job? Or why are you
interested in this job?
 Do you have the right skills and motivation to do well in
this position? Or do you feel confident in your ability to
handle this position?
 What is the salary you think is appropriate for someone
with your experience?
 What makes this job different from your previous jobs?
 Do you have any questions?
 What do you know about the position we have open?

9.  Who do you think are our three major competitors?
 Do they have any advantages over our company?
 Can we contact your present employer?
 Why do you want to enter this field?
 What have been the biggest frustrations and
failures in your career?
 Do you think you have ever done the best work you
are capable of doing?
 Why are you leaving your current position?
 Describe the best thing you ever did in your life.
 Describe the best job you ever had?
 How would you compare the quality of your work
to that of others in the same job?

10.  What factors contribute most to your success on your current job?
 Can you explain the gaps in your employment history?
 What do you consider the most significant achievement in your entire career?
 What has been your biggest disappointment on the previous job?
 What do you consider the single most important idea you implemented in your
current job?
 Does your current employer know you are interviewing for a new job?
 If offered a job, How long will you stay with this company?
 What are you looking for in a job?
 Why do you think you are the best person for this job?
 Have you ever lived or travelled abroad?
 Do you have any hobbies and passions that might demonstrate dedication,
initiative or originality?
 How do you usually handle conflicts with superiors or colleagues or
subordinates?
 What is the hardest thing you ever had to do in your life?
 What would be the ideal company for you to work?

11.  What qualities do you expect from the ideal boss? Or describe your
ideal boss.
 How would your friends describe you?
 How would your co-workers describe you?
 Under what conditions do you perform your best work? Or describe
your ideal work environment.
 If you had a free afternoon, how would you use that time?
 Have you ever had a conflict with a boss or professor? How did you
resolve it?
 Do you consider yourself a leader? Why or why not?
 Describe a time when you were under pressure to perform. What was
the outcome?
 What are your hobbies and interests?
 Describe a situation in which you and your manager worked well
together in order to overcome some challenges.
 What has been your most successful experience in communicating ideas
to others?

12.  How do you keep your team motivated and informed when
everyone is very busy and facing a tight deadline?
 What interests you most about this job?
 What do you think this job will offer you?
 How many people have you supervised at any given time?
 What financial responsibilities have you had?
 What have you learned from your previous company?
 How would you describe the position for which you are
applying?
 How do you improve yourself professionally?
 Are you looking for a limited or unlimited time contract?
 What makes you unique and different from other job
candidates?
 What do you like to do during your free time?
 Are you able to work effectively under stressful situations?

13.  Can you give us some evidence of creative work you have done on the
job?
 What is your biggest failure and what did you learn from it?
 How would you respond when your manager tells you that your
performance on a particular day has not been really good?
 What type of decision do you feel is the most difficult for you to make?
 Could you describe a day when you faced many problems and how you
could deal with it?
 Do you think you’re past decisions and actions were consistent with
your values?
 How would you describe your last boss?
 How well you can get along with people of different nature and
different cultures?
 Can you discuss a time when you had a disagreement with your last
boss?
 Describe the best boss you have ever had.

14.  How do you deal with office politics?
 Why did you leave your last job?
 Did you get any other job offer?
 .What was your last salary?
 Are you ready to bring down your salary expectations?
 Do you think you were given the salary you deserve in your last job?
 What salary figure do you have in mind?
 What types of benefits do you expect from this job?
 Are you ready to work overtime?
 What do you expect to be earning in ten years?
 If you are hired, what do you plan to do in the first week on the job?
 Are you worried about what other people think of you?
 What are your leisure time activities?
 Are you undergoing any training programmes to improve your skills?

15.  What do you plan to do to improve yourself?
 Have you ever received an award or citation?
 Do you find the internet and the World Wide Web to be of value
in your daily work? If so how?
 Do you consider yourself a computer literate?
 Are you open and enthusiastic about the new technologies?
 Could you please give five reasons for your success?
 Have you ever been fired or asked to resign?
 In what areas have you received compliments from your
superiors?
 What is the best accomplishment you can name from each of
your previous jobs?
 What is your leadership style?
 What has been your biggest disappointment on the job?

16.  Recall a time when you made an independent decision.
 Describe an occasion when you managed a situation that
was your superior’s responsibility
 Recall a time when you used good judgment and logic in
solving problem.
 Provide an example of your previous company’s weakness
and the step you took to overcome it.
 Recall a time when your performance on the job led to
greater productivity and profitability to your organization.
 Give an example of situation in which you demonstrated
your great skill to solve a problem facing your company
 Tell me about a time when your hard work was rewarded.
 Describe a time when you took an active role in a project
for which you had little experience.

17.  Did you ever take on a task that was not part of your job
description?
 Could you give some evidence of your investing time or money
in developing your career?
 Can you give me an examples, of using a skill you have
acquired to solve a problem?
 With specific examples explain what you did at your
last/Current job to increase income for the company
 Why are you thinking of leaving your current job?
 How do you deal with your problem creating subordinates?
 How do you deal with difficult customers?
 How do you deal with difficult co - workers?
 When did you learn new skills?
 If you were unfairly criticized by your superior, what would
you do?
 Would you like to have your boss’s jobs? Why or why not?

18.  Do you manage your time well?
 How do you handle change in the workplace?
 How do you arrive at making important decisions?
 Who do you think are our company’s major competitors?
 Have you managed / supervised people in any of the
positions you have held?
 What were the most memorable accomplishments in
your career?
 What was the greatest failure in your career?
 What measures did you take to overcome that failure?
 If you were starting your college life tomorrow what
courses would you take?
 Who is your favorite author?
 What is your favorite book?

19.  Which magazines do you read regularly?
 Which person has the most important influence on your life? why?
 Have you ever been elected to a leadership position in a club or a
professional association?
 Do you volunteer to do social work?
 How long have you been looking for work?
 What is the most important quality you possess?
 What factors determine a person’s promotion in a good organization?
 What types of people are your best friends?
 What unique abilities do you have?
 How many days of work (or college) did you miss last year?
 How will you handle criticisms?
 Are you ready to work with people of different races, ethnic and
cultural backgrounds, religions, cultural and life styles?
 When are you available to start the job?
 How did your previous employers treat you?

20.  What have you learned from your previous jobs?
 Did you have a good relationship with your past boss?
 What types of jobs have you enjoyed the most and the least?
 In what ways have your current job or the last job prepared
you to take on more responsibilities?
 What experience do you have that qualifies you for this
position?
 How would you describe your personality?
 What are the most important things for you in any job or
company?
 Do you think you are overqualified for this positions ?
 Tell us about the biggest project you have worked on from
start to finish.
 Will you can handle a stressful situation?
 What was the most difficult problem you have ever handled?
How did you deal with it?

21.  Could you ever influence your previous boss by providing your new
ideas?
 What was the most difficult training course you have ever taken?
 What type of marketing strategies would you use to sell a newly
introduced unfamiliar product?
 Are you able to work with numbers?
 Are you a good listener and a fast learner?
 Do you have good analytical skills?
 Are you goal oriented?
 Are you able to make quick and appropriate decisions?
 Are you able to plan, organize and implement new projects and
programmes?
 Are you able to build good customer relations?
 Are you well aware of the current economic and business situation
and industry structure and customer needs?
 Are you adaptable and able to hand multiple tasks?
 Can you give a brief description of your transferable skills?

22.  Do you have good problem solving skills? Do you have good
leadership qualities and capable of overcoming and dealing
with obstacles?
 Are you able to maintain constant contact with the team
members and able to motivate them to do better tasks?
 Do you think your career so far has been successful?
 Why have you been working so long with your present
employer?
 How do you get the best from people?
 How do you prepare a particular project?
 Are you a natural leader?
 What motivates you to take up a job?
 How do you avoid misunderstandings in the work place?
 Tell me about an occasion where you had to take on the role of
leader.
 How do your skills and experience match the job descriptions
of our company’s vacancy for which you are applying?

23.  What appeals to you most about this vacancy?
 Are there any other organizations to which you are applying?
 How quickly can you adapt to a new work environment?
 Do you mind if we contact your current or previous boss for reference?
 Are you able to make difficult decisions and tough choices?
 What reservations do you have about working for us?
 What character flaws do you have?
 What makes you better than any of the other candidates I am interviewing?
 How do you manage your staff?
 Why are you thinking of leaving your current job?
 How did you get your last job?
 How does this job fit into your career plan?
 How have you handled criticism of your work in the past?
 How has your employer rewarded your accomplishments?
 What are your short term and long term goals?
 Have you ever taken a position that did not fit into your long term plans?

24.  Have you progressed in your career as per your expectations?
 Why did you choose this career?
 What makes you think that this job is right for you at this point in your
career?
 What career path interests you within the company?
 Do you have any hobbies?
 What are some of the things you do to relax?
 Are there any community projects that have benefitted from your
professional experience?
 Are you punctual for your work?
 Are there any issues in your personal life that might in some way affect
your professional career?
 after learning more about this job, which aspect interests you most?
 Do you have any concerns about performing this job?
 Will you be able to respond to customer complaints effectively?
 Several of our clients have not paid their bills. If we hire you, how will
you collect the money from them?

25.  Are you able to maintain confidential information about our
product and services?
 As my assistant, will you able to do my work sincerely,
whenever I will be out of my office?
 Do you have any problem in working around the clock for a
week three to four times a year?
 What kinds of jobs did you have during your college days?
 How is the present job different from that ones you had
before it?
 What duties of your last job did you find difficult to perform?
 What additional benefits do you expect to get from this job
that your last job did not provide?
 Is there any special reasons for you to choose the job in this
industry your career?
 What particular aspect of our company interests you most?
 How will you be successful in this job?

26.  Do you have sufficient knowledge about our recent growth and
performance?
 Do you know much about the major clients of our company?
 If you are given an opportunity to develop a new product for our
company, what would it be?
 Can you identify our company’s distinct advantages over our
competitors?
 Could you suggest some new strategies for improving our advertising
campaign?
 Can you identify some of the areas where our company’s need
considerable improvement?
 If we allow you to run our company, what would you do differently?
 Do you know about the missions and the visions of our company?
 Do you think our company will have a bright future?
 What would be your dream job?
 What would you say if one of our company competitors offered you a
job?
 How have your career changed over the past few years?
 How does this job fit in your career goals?

27.  Do you have an up to date Knowledge about the goal of this
business?
 Why is unemployment so high in Europe?
 Why is unemployment very high in India?
 What will you contribute to the growth of this company?
 Are you aware of your job description if we hire you?
 If you were hired today, what will be the first thing you would
do?
 Are you planning to do an MBA degree programme?
 Why did you choose to study at Madonna university ?
 How did you manage to score very high GPA at the university
exams?
 Why did you score lower grades in school exams?
 Why haven’t you done any internship?
 Did you do any internship during the college days?
 What did you gain from attending the college?

28.  How would your professors describe you?
 Did you ever have any disagreement with your teacher in the school or
your professor in the college?
 What did you like the most about your college?
 Which aspects of your work are most often criticized?
 How do you feel when things go wrong on a project? How would you
handle it?
 Did you ever work with a boss who was unfair to you?
 Why did you work in the previous jobs for a short period?
 Why did you stay in your room last job for such a long time?
 Do you think that you are qualified and skilled to take up more
challenging jobs?
 Would you be able to work longer hours if the job required you to?
 Are you sincerely interested in working with our company in this
available position?
 How good are your communication and presentation skills?
 What really wakes you up in the morning looking forwards to work?

29.  How important to you is your work / life balance?
 Do you think your lack of accounting knowledge will be a
disadvantage in this job?
 What opinions have you formed of the people you have met so
far?
 Do you enjoy hard work?
 In your opinion, what is the ideal relationship with your boss?
 How does your present team see you?
 How will you know when you have found the right job?
 How do you manage your subordinates?
 How do you deal with interpersonal conflicts?
 What factors will make a successful team?
 Would you describe yourself as a good manager?
 What is your attitude towards delegation?
 In what ways do you intend to improve upon your performance?
 What are you most afraid of?

30.  Are you satisfied with your current earning?
 Would you still be interested in this job, if your current employer offered a pay
rise?
 Can you tell me about your most admired teacher?
 In what job position did you make the best use of your communication skills?
 In which job position were you the best at motivating yourself or others?
 Which was the most difficult client interview you faced last year? How did you
prepare and respond to the client’s concerns?
 What are your views on diversity? How would you manage a diverse team?
 How would you differentiate between a manager and a leader?
 What will be your next step if you don’t get this job?
 How do you deal with failures in life?
 Are you good at doing research?
 What personal characteristics do you think will assist to your overall success?
 Do you consider yourself a leader or follower?
 Have you ever had difficulties in getting along with others?
 Have you successfully worked with a different person?
 What do you expect regarding your salary?

31.  Can you give a brief description about your education and work
experience?
 In which job description did you make the best use of your
communication skills?
 Could you describe a time when, despite your best efforts, you were
unable to meet a technical challenge or solve a technical problem?
 What factors encouraged you to apply for this role?
 What do you think of our facility here?
 How did you come to know about this job?
 What do you know about our organization?
 Did you experience any difficulty in finding our organization?
 Could you describe about your study and time at the university?
 Do you regularly read the news paper in the morning and if so which is
your favorite news paper?
 From which source did you see this job advertisement?
 Describe briefly about your work history.
 In your last job, what exactly were you responsible for?
 What could you learn from the jobs that you have held?

32.  Some of the terms you have used in your resume are unclear to
us , could you please explain those terms concisely and clearly ?
 What did you gain from your bachelor’s degree?
 Why did you choose that particular course of study?
 How will your knowledge from your studies will help you in this
job?
 Don’t you think you are over qualified for this position?
 What have you learned from your previous jobs?
 How do you update your knowledge?
 What measures have you taken to improve your marketing skills?
 Why did you choose to become a marketing manager or
operations manager?
 What is your opinion about the current important trends in our
industry?
 With very little work experience do you think you can perform
well in this position for which you interviewing?

33.  Do you really want this job?
 What are the major goals you would like to achieve?
 What personal qualities do you possess which will make you successful
in this position?
 How much freedom do you expect to get in a job?
 What kind of management potential do you have?
 In what way do you think this role will be the right next step for you ?
 What has been the right point of your career?
 Why do you want to change your present job?
 Why did you leave your last job?
 Will you respond positively, if your present employer offers you better
pay package?
 .What are your expectations in your ideal job?
 Would you like to work for us on voluntary basis?
 What do you identify as our biggest market advantage?
 How would you rate your career growth compared with your peers?

34.  Describe a time when you had to make an unpopular decision under tremendous
pressure from top management?
 How do you evaluate your work performance?
 How did you know you were doing a good job?
 What type of individuals do you think will do well in this job? Can you give the
evidence?
 We are interested in employing people with specific competencies. How does
your experience match our requirement?
 How did you get along with your team members in your last job?
 Can you give examples of a time when you had to work with a difficult team?
 Have you ever persuaded your colleagues in the work place to do some work
they were unhappy about?
 Have you ever failed to achieve a goal that had been set for you?
 Did you ever have to work under pressure and how did you successfully manage
it?
 How well can you motivate and manage people?
 Could you tell me about a time when you took a tough decision as a manager?

35.  Could you give me examples of leadership qualities you have displayed in your
life?
 Are you able to save sufficient money for the organization which has employed
you?
 How do you describe us as a business organization?
 Have you ever been asked to resign from your job?
 How did you get along with your previous boss?
 Have you ever been asked to accept a pay and how did you respond?
 Have you ever worked without supervision?
 Did you ever fail to meet a challenge in your life?
 Have you ever had any problems with previous supervisors?
 Can you give a examples to prove that you are reliable?
 What kind of problems do you normally encounter in your job?
 What were your reasons for leaving your last job?
 What kind of decisions do you make in your current job?
 How well can you follow instructions of your superiors?
 What are the reasons for your success in the current profession?
 How do you rate your confidence? Or Are you ready to take up any challenging
tasks?

36.  What measures would you take to improve our business performance?
 How can you find out what your competitors are doing?
 Do you have a good understanding of specific sales and marketing techniques for
selling our products?
 In which fields / areas do you have good experience and specialized knowledge?
 How do you handle specific tasks and assignments?
 How do you approach specific problems that confront you in implementing an
important decision?
 How do you get the knowledge of what is happening in other departments of the
organization where you are working?
 What is the definition of a good job in your profession?
 Have you ever supervised people more qualified than you?
 Do you have any objection to being supervised by a person less qualified than
you?
 Are you able to write procedures, specifications and tenders in your job
confidently, clearly and accurately?
 What steps do you take to make important decisions?
 How do you define a pleasant working environment?

37.  What would you do to improve our business if you were
given a free hand by us?
 What kinds of decisions do you think are most difficult
for you to make?
 .When was the last time you have to shout at a
colleague?
 How do you motivate your co-workers?
 How do you prioritize your work load?
 Are you able to influence and persuade people?
 How do you recruit a new member to a team?
 How do you conduct an effective and efficient meeting?
 How familiar are you with total quality management and
control and do you use it currently?
 What methods do you use to predict the future
workloads?

38.  Do you have a positive view on customer
service?
 How do you get along with people of
different cultures, different nationalities
and different ethnicities?
 What skills do you think are most important
to handle people tactfully?
 Do you think your lack of experience and
lack of qualifications could be a problem
for tacking up this job?
 Do you think you will be successful in your
current job?

39.  How do your skills and experience help you to take up
this job?
 Can you describe in detail about your last two positions?
 What do you know about our firm’s competitors? Do
they pose any threat to us?
 If you are a good and efficient employee, why didn’t you
get promotion in your previous job?
 What is the most recent skill you have learned?
 Have you ever been involved in long range planning?
 In how many months time will you be able to make a
meaningful contribution to our organization?
 Do you have any reservation about working with us
here?
 In what way did you your pervious job prepare you to
take on greater responsibilities?
 How does your previous boss describe you?

40.  The present job requires multiple
responsibilities. How will you do those
tasks efficiently and effectively?
 How quickly can you make an important
decision in your department?
 For what types of decisions have you been
most frequently criticized?
 How will you deal with difficult people?

41.  Can you describe your management style?
 What kind of procedure do you follow in
hiring?
 What are people’s greatest misperceptions
about you?
 How do you deal with disgruntled
subordinates?
 Have you ever fired anyone and did you
ever doubt your decision about firing
someone?

42.  What do people like most about you and least about
you?
 How do you rate yourself on the scale of efficiency?
 Do you ever say lie to get things done?
 How often are you disturbed and what makes you mad?
 How do you make your opinions known when you have
disagreement with your management or boss?
 Do you think that you are a successful individual? Can
you give some examples for your career success?
 Did you ever face any personal hardship in your life?
 Could you mention about a situation where you
personally or professionally failed?
 Who is your greatest personal mentor?
 How did you manage to get your last job?

43.  When do you expect promotion?
 When do you plan on retrieving?
 How much time did you take off from work?
 Do you have any objection to honesty or
psychological testing?
 Will your boss feel upset when you resign from
your job?
 What was the least satisfying job that you ever
had?
 What kinds of personal experience, outside of
work, do you have for this job?
 How do you manage to interview while still
employed?
 Can you describe the way you moved up through
the organization?

44.  What was your favorite position, and what role did
your boss play in making it so unique?
 What was your least favorite position? What role
did your boss play in your career at that point?
 What makes you stand out among your peers? (
P.11)
 What have you done in your present / last position
to increase your organization’s total revenue?
(P.13)
 What have you done to reduce your department’s
operational costs or to save time? ( P.14)
 What has been your most creative achievement at
work?
 What are the broad responsibilities of a job title? (
P.20)

45.  What aspect of your job do you consider most crucial?
 How many hours a week do you find it necessary to work in
order to get your job done? ( P. 23)
 What does growth mean to you? ( P.33)
 What kind of mentoring and training style do you have? Do you
naturally delegate responsibilities? (P.52)
 How would you describe the amount of structure, direction and
feedback you need in order to excel in your career?
 What type of corporate culture will you create if we hire you?
(P.55)
 How does your degree prepare you for a career in industry or to
excel as a job title?
 What qualification do you have beyond academics that qualify
you to make a successful transition into business? ( P.61 )
 Do you think your grades are a good indicator of your ability to
succeed in business? (P.63)
 What other type of companies and positions are you considering
right now? ( P. 64)