70 Tricky Interview Questions
22 November 2010
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These questions may be asked verbally during your interviews or as a questionnaire to fill out on-site or to return by mail.
Do you know the company?
1. Why did you apply to our company with an unsolicited application?
2. What caught your attention in the job posting you responded to?
3. Were you familiar with our company (or brand) before this first contact?
4. Before we introduce you to our company and the position to be filled, tell me what you think of the questionnaire we had you fill out. Do you have any suggestions or criticisms?
5. When reading the job posting, what is the interest of the position to be filled in your eyes?
6. Tell me a little about our company! Do you know what place we occupy in our sector? What products or services do you think we manufacture or market? Are you familiar with the products or services we are currently launching? What did you remember from our last advertising campaign?
7. What appeal does an SME like ours have for you, given that you have worked in a large company?
8. Are you attracted to large companies? If so, why?
9. Are you sensitive to the employee benefits our employees receive?
Childhood - Schooling - Training
10. Do you have a parent or someone close to you who works or has worked in our company or another company in the same activity?
11. As a child or teenager, what did you do at home? On vacation?
12. Do you live with your parents?
13. Which parent (father, mother, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother) has had the most influence on you? Why?
14. Do you admire your father? Your mother?
15. Did you have good relationships with your classmates?
16. What training do you have? What diplomas do your studies lead to? Why did you choose this training?
17. In what subject did you excel during your schooling?
18. Would you have liked to follow another school path? If so, which one and why?
19. Did you have extracurricular activities? If so, which ones?
20. Did you have paid jobs during your studies? If so, which ones?
21. What foreign languages do you speak? How would you rate your level? Have you lived in the countries whose language you speak? Do you read foreign press? If so, which newspapers?
22. Have you been required to follow continuing education? If so, what types of training?
Your Experience
23. Give me a general and quick description of your professional experience (internships for beginners).
24. Briefly describe your former positions in previous positions (or internships for beginners).
25. Which employer has had the greatest impact on you? Why?
26. Why did you leave your last employer?
27. What leads you to consider leaving your current employer?
28. For each of your previous employers, tell me the reasons that led you to leave them?
29. Through your experience, tell me about a successful initiative or result that you are proud of?
30. If you had to take stock of the work (or mission) that most enthusiastic you, which one would you highlight? Why?
31. How many people have you managed and what were their qualifications?
Who are you at work?
32. How do you judge yourself?
33. Name three strengths? Three weaknesses?
34. Are you optimistic, thoughtful or pessimistic?
35. Are you perceptive enough to complete a difficult mission? If so, give me an example.
36. Do you like to work alone or in a team?
37. Have your duties led you to manage a team?
38. What, in your opinion, are the human qualities required to manage or lead a service, a workshop, a department, a factory?
39. If your superior blames you for a mistake made by your department, attributable to the initiative of one of your colleagues, how do you react?
40. Do you like responsibilities? Do you know how to take them? Do you have an example?
41. What is your attitude towards hierarchy?
42. What type of superior do you like to work with?
43. Would you accept being managed by a woman?
44. As a woman, have you managed men? If so, what behavior do you adopt towards men who do not accept well to depend on the authority of a woman?
45. How do your subordinates judge you?
46. How do you react to people who do not have the same training or the same interests as you?
47. Do you like to delegate your duties?
48. How do you organize your work in a typical day?
49. Are you a fervent believer in meetings? Have you initiated work meetings? In your opinion, what are the criteria of a "good meeting"?
50. In new functions, what is your attitude towards subordinates?
51. Are you very attached to employee benefits?
Miscellaneous
52. What department and type of job attract you most? What exactly are you looking for?
53. What are your impressions after visiting or presenting our company?
54. Do you consider yourself suitable for the position? Why?
55. Do you think you will find fulfillment in this position?
56. Would you be willing to relocate? In France? Abroad? To make frequent trips? In France? Abroad?
57. Do you have a driver's license? What is your car?
58. When will you be available?
59. By the way, what is your current salary? How much do you expect to earn by joining our company?
60. How long have you been looking for a job? Since your dismissal, what have you been doing?
61. Have you met with other companies recently?
62. If so, have any of them already made you an offer of employment?
63. Do you own or rent your home?
64. What are your parents' professions?
65. What is your family situation? Married, single...?
66. What are your hobbies? Do you play any sports? Do you have many friends?
67. How old are your children and are you interested in their studies? Do you have plans for them? Which ones?
68. Does your spouse work in the same field as you? Is he or she aware of our interview? Could he or she follow you on your trips abroad? Does he or she have experience living overseas? Do you plan for your children to follow you? And their studies?
69. Apart from your hobbies, tell me about your extracurricular activities, if you have any?
70. Have you been approached by a professional journal (or other) to be interviewed or to write an article? If so, can you provide proof?
Good questions to ask during a job interview
If your questions are asked tactfully, they will not be offended, quite the contrary. This will give your interlocutors the opportunity to praise the merits of their company. By appearing seduced by their answers, you confirm them in their conviction.
1. What has been the company's evolution in recent years in terms of turnover, personnel, new products or services?
2. What are the company's main markets? In short, who are its direct clients? Does it have an export-oriented commercial policy? Which countries are its main clients?
3. What is the share of exports in the turnover? Abroad, has it created subsidiaries or does it use the services of local agents?
4. What are, without revealing your manufacturing or marketing secrets, your short and medium-term development projects?
5. What became of the person who held this position? Has he or she been promoted, reassigned within the company, dismissed or simply resigned, and if so, why?
This list is not exhaustive, you will probably find others to ask, but beware of the killer question
Posted on November 22, 2010
100cv.com
Do you know the company?
1. Why did you apply to our company with an unsolicited application?
2. What caught your attention in the job posting you responded to?
3. Were you familiar with our company (or brand) before this first contact?
4. Before we introduce you to our company and the position to be filled, tell me what you think of the questionnaire we had you fill out. Do you have any suggestions or criticisms?
5. When reading the job posting, what is the interest of the position to be filled in your eyes?
6. Tell me a little about our company! Do you know what place we occupy in our sector? What products or services do you think we manufacture or market? Are you familiar with the products or services we are currently launching? What did you remember from our last advertising campaign?
7. What appeal does an SME like ours have for you, given that you have worked in a large company?
8. Are you attracted to large companies? If so, why?
9. Are you sensitive to the employee benefits our employees receive?
Childhood - Schooling - Training
10. Do you have a parent or someone close to you who works or has worked in our company or another company in the same activity?
11. As a child or teenager, what did you do at home? On vacation?
12. Do you live with your parents?
13. Which parent (father, mother, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother) has had the most influence on you? Why?
14. Do you admire your father? Your mother?
15. Did you have good relationships with your classmates?
16. What training do you have? What diplomas do your studies lead to? Why did you choose this training?
17. In what subject did you excel during your schooling?
18. Would you have liked to follow another school path? If so, which one and why?
19. Did you have extracurricular activities? If so, which ones?
20. Did you have paid jobs during your studies? If so, which ones?
21. What foreign languages do you speak? How would you rate your level? Have you lived in the countries whose language you speak? Do you read foreign press? If so, which newspapers?
22. Have you been required to follow continuing education? If so, what types of training?
Your Experience
23. Give me a general and quick description of your professional experience (internships for beginners).
24. Briefly describe your former positions in previous positions (or internships for beginners).
25. Which employer has had the greatest impact on you? Why?
26. Why did you leave your last employer?
27. What leads you to consider leaving your current employer?
28. For each of your previous employers, tell me the reasons that led you to leave them?
29. Through your experience, tell me about a successful initiative or result that you are proud of?
30. If you had to take stock of the work (or mission) that most enthusiastic you, which one would you highlight? Why?
31. How many people have you managed and what were their qualifications?
Who are you at work?
32. How do you judge yourself?
33. Name three strengths? Three weaknesses?
34. Are you optimistic, thoughtful or pessimistic?
35. Are you perceptive enough to complete a difficult mission? If so, give me an example.
36. Do you like to work alone or in a team?
37. Have your duties led you to manage a team?
38. What, in your opinion, are the human qualities required to manage or lead a service, a workshop, a department, a factory?
39. If your superior blames you for a mistake made by your department, attributable to the initiative of one of your colleagues, how do you react?
40. Do you like responsibilities? Do you know how to take them? Do you have an example?
41. What is your attitude towards hierarchy?
42. What type of superior do you like to work with?
43. Would you accept being managed by a woman?
44. As a woman, have you managed men? If so, what behavior do you adopt towards men who do not accept well to depend on the authority of a woman?
45. How do your subordinates judge you?
46. How do you react to people who do not have the same training or the same interests as you?
47. Do you like to delegate your duties?
48. How do you organize your work in a typical day?
49. Are you a fervent believer in meetings? Have you initiated work meetings? In your opinion, what are the criteria of a "good meeting"?
50. In new functions, what is your attitude towards subordinates?
51. Are you very attached to employee benefits?
Miscellaneous
52. What department and type of job attract you most? What exactly are you looking for?
53. What are your impressions after visiting or presenting our company?
54. Do you consider yourself suitable for the position? Why?
55. Do you think you will find fulfillment in this position?
56. Would you be willing to relocate? In France? Abroad? To make frequent trips? In France? Abroad?
57. Do you have a driver's license? What is your car?
58. When will you be available?
59. By the way, what is your current salary? How much do you expect to earn by joining our company?
60. How long have you been looking for a job? Since your dismissal, what have you been doing?
61. Have you met with other companies recently?
62. If so, have any of them already made you an offer of employment?
63. Do you own or rent your home?
64. What are your parents' professions?
65. What is your family situation? Married, single...?
66. What are your hobbies? Do you play any sports? Do you have many friends?
67. How old are your children and are you interested in their studies? Do you have plans for them? Which ones?
68. Does your spouse work in the same field as you? Is he or she aware of our interview? Could he or she follow you on your trips abroad? Does he or she have experience living overseas? Do you plan for your children to follow you? And their studies?
69. Apart from your hobbies, tell me about your extracurricular activities, if you have any?
70. Have you been approached by a professional journal (or other) to be interviewed or to write an article? If so, can you provide proof?
Good questions to ask during a job interview
If your questions are asked tactfully, they will not be offended, quite the contrary. This will give your interlocutors the opportunity to praise the merits of their company. By appearing seduced by their answers, you confirm them in their conviction.
1. What has been the company's evolution in recent years in terms of turnover, personnel, new products or services?
2. What are the company's main markets? In short, who are its direct clients? Does it have an export-oriented commercial policy? Which countries are its main clients?
3. What is the share of exports in the turnover? Abroad, has it created subsidiaries or does it use the services of local agents?
4. What are, without revealing your manufacturing or marketing secrets, your short and medium-term development projects?
5. What became of the person who held this position? Has he or she been promoted, reassigned within the company, dismissed or simply resigned, and if so, why?
This list is not exhaustive, you will probably find others to ask, but beware of the killer question
Posted on November 22, 2010
100cv.com
