70 Tricky Questions You Might Be Asked in a Job Interview
19 October 2012
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Do you know the company?
1. Why did you apply to our company with a speculative application?
2. What caught your attention in the job posting you answered?
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 asked you to fill out. Do you have any suggestions or criticisms to make?
5. In reading the advertisement, what is the interest in your eyes of the position to be filled?
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 latest advertising campaign?
7. What appeal does a 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 social benefits enjoyed by our employees?
10. Do you have a relative or someone close to you who works or has worked in our company or in another company in the same activity?
Childhood - Schooling - Training
11. As a child or teenager, what did you do at home? On vacation?
12. Are you living with your parents?
13. Which parent (father, mother, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother) 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 sanction your studies? Why did you choose this training?
17. In what discipline 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 do paid jobs during your studies? If so, which ones?
21. What foreign languages do you speak? How do 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 had to follow ongoing training? If so, what type of internships?
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Your experience
23. Give me a general and quick description of your professional experience (internships for beginners).
24. Briefly describe your previous positions in previous positions (or internships for beginners).
25. Which employer has marked you the most? Why?
26. Why did you leave your last employer?
27. What leads you to consider leaving your current employer?
28. For each of the previous employers, tell me the reasons that led you to leave them?
29. Through your experience, tell me about a successful initiative or a result you are proud of?
30. If you had to take stock of the work (or mission) that has excited you the most, 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 department, workshop, department, factory?
39. If your superior criticizes a mistake in your department, attributable to the initiative of one of your collaborators, 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 hierarchical 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 find it difficult to accept being dependent on a woman's authority?
45. How do your subordinates judge you?
46. How do you react towards 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 been the instigator of work meetings? In your opinion, what are the criteria of a "good meeting"?
50. In new positions, what is your attitude towards subordinates?
51. Are you very attached to social benefits?
52. Which department and what type of job appeal to you the most? What exactly are you looking for?
Miscellaneous
53. What are your impressions after the visit or presentation of our company?
54. Do you consider yourself capable of filling 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 do frequent travel? 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 remuneration? 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 currently met other companies?
62. If so, have some already made you an offer of employment?
63. Are you the owner or tenant of your accommodation?
64. What are your parents' professions?
65. What is your family situation? Married, single...?
66. What are your hobbies? Your hobbies? Do you play a sport? 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 aware of our interview? Could he follow you on your trips abroad? Does he have experience of life overseas? Do you plan for your children to follow you? And their studies?
69. Apart from your hobbies and hobbies, tell me about your extra-professional 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 won't be offended, on 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 evolution of the company 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 customers? Does it have a sales policy geared towards export? Which countries are its main customers?
3. What is the share of exports in turnover? Abroad, has it created subsidiaries or does it use the services of local agents?
4. Without revealing your manufacturing or marketing secrets, what are your short and medium-term development projects?
5. What has become of the person who held this position? Has he been promoted, given a new assignment within the company, dismissed, or has he simply resigned, and if so, why?
This list is not exhaustive, you will undoubtedly find others to ask, but beware of the killer question!
100CV.com
Posted online October 19, 2012.
1. Why did you apply to our company with a speculative application?
2. What caught your attention in the job posting you answered?
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 asked you to fill out. Do you have any suggestions or criticisms to make?
5. In reading the advertisement, what is the interest in your eyes of the position to be filled?
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 latest advertising campaign?
7. What appeal does a 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 social benefits enjoyed by our employees?
10. Do you have a relative or someone close to you who works or has worked in our company or in another company in the same activity?
Childhood - Schooling - Training
11. As a child or teenager, what did you do at home? On vacation?
12. Are you living with your parents?
13. Which parent (father, mother, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother) 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 sanction your studies? Why did you choose this training?
17. In what discipline 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 do paid jobs during your studies? If so, which ones?
21. What foreign languages do you speak? How do 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 had to follow ongoing training? If so, what type of internships?
Access to all and the rest of professional writing advice by downloading your individual and paid access right.
Your experience
23. Give me a general and quick description of your professional experience (internships for beginners).
24. Briefly describe your previous positions in previous positions (or internships for beginners).
25. Which employer has marked you the most? Why?
26. Why did you leave your last employer?
27. What leads you to consider leaving your current employer?
28. For each of the previous employers, tell me the reasons that led you to leave them?
29. Through your experience, tell me about a successful initiative or a result you are proud of?
30. If you had to take stock of the work (or mission) that has excited you the most, 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 department, workshop, department, factory?
39. If your superior criticizes a mistake in your department, attributable to the initiative of one of your collaborators, 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 hierarchical 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 find it difficult to accept being dependent on a woman's authority?
45. How do your subordinates judge you?
46. How do you react towards 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 been the instigator of work meetings? In your opinion, what are the criteria of a "good meeting"?
50. In new positions, what is your attitude towards subordinates?
51. Are you very attached to social benefits?
52. Which department and what type of job appeal to you the most? What exactly are you looking for?
Miscellaneous
53. What are your impressions after the visit or presentation of our company?
54. Do you consider yourself capable of filling 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 do frequent travel? 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 remuneration? 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 currently met other companies?
62. If so, have some already made you an offer of employment?
63. Are you the owner or tenant of your accommodation?
64. What are your parents' professions?
65. What is your family situation? Married, single...?
66. What are your hobbies? Your hobbies? Do you play a sport? 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 aware of our interview? Could he follow you on your trips abroad? Does he have experience of life overseas? Do you plan for your children to follow you? And their studies?
69. Apart from your hobbies and hobbies, tell me about your extra-professional 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 won't be offended, on 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 evolution of the company 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 customers? Does it have a sales policy geared towards export? Which countries are its main customers?
3. What is the share of exports in turnover? Abroad, has it created subsidiaries or does it use the services of local agents?
4. Without revealing your manufacturing or marketing secrets, what are your short and medium-term development projects?
5. What has become of the person who held this position? Has he been promoted, given a new assignment within the company, dismissed, or has he simply resigned, and if so, why?
This list is not exhaustive, you will undoubtedly find others to ask, but beware of the killer question!
100CV.com
Posted online October 19, 2012.
