PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT / FUTURE EMPLOYMENT

• Describe your present responsibilities.

• What previous job was most satisfying and why?

• What previous job was the most frustrating and why?

• In what kind of environment would you like to work?

• What do you like most/least about your present job?

• What were some of the things you particularly enjoyed when you were working for your previous employer?

• What were some of the things about your job that you found more difficult to do?

• What two or three things are most important to you in a job?

GOALS

• In which areas do you feel you would like to develop yourself?

• What challenges are you looking for in a position?

• What do you see yourself doing five years from now?

• What are your long range and short range goals and objectives? (Business/career related) When and why did you establish these goals? How are you preparing yourself to achieve them?

EDUCATION

• How has your college experience prepared you for a business career?

• What skills and abilities from your education and experience do you feel would help you in performing this job?

• What extracurricular activities did you participate in during college and/or high school?

   Describe what have you learned from them.

 PAST MISTAKES

• If you had the opportunity to change anything in your career, what would you have done differently?

 • Give me an example of a time when you were criticized. How did you deal with it?

• Tell me about a time when you had to work on a project that did not work out the way it should have. What did you do?

CREATIVITY / PROBLEM SOLVING

• How do you prioritize your tasks?

• Give me an example of something you have done that was innovative.

• Describe some situations in which you worked under pressure to meet deadlines.

• If you had the opportunity to change anything in your career, what would you have done differently?

GENERAL

• What additional information do you think I should know about you?

• Why should I hire you?

• What are you looking for in this job that you do not find in your present job?

• What do you consider your greatest strength/weakness to be?

SUPERVISION / MANAGEMENT

• What efforts on your part have contributed to the development of your subordinates? How do you judge the results of your efforts?

• Tell me about a new idea you have had. Explain how you got subordinates to accept this new idea.

• Describe a situation in which you had a difficult management problem. How did you solve it?

• How do you motivate subordinates?

• What is your management style? How do you think your subordinates perceive you?

• What qualities should a successful manager possess?

• Tell me about a situation where a project was returned for errors. How did you handle the situation? What effect did this have on you?