Typical Interview Questions
14 December 2011
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To help you prepare for a job interview, here is a list of typical interview questions. Choose a few and practice developing your answers (go beyond yes or no, develop your argument, give examples); do this exercise first alone, then with someone, preferably a professional with experience in recruitment, who can then give you objective feedback on your presentation.
About yourself:
How do you go about looking for a job?
What is your ideal job?
What are the most important criteria in your choice?
How will you make the final choice?
If you had three adjectives to define yourself, what would they be?
How do you know you are what you say you are?
What are the weaknesses you know you need to work on?
Draw a self-portrait.
How would your entourage describe you?
What qualities/defects do you look for/hate in others?
On your professional goals:
Why did you apply to our company?
What image do you have of our company?
What caught your attention in our ad?
What do you think of the offered position?
What do you expect from this job?
What can you bring us?
What are your professional projects?
What are the qualities required for the position, in your opinion?
What will change for you by joining us?
How do you see yourself evolving?
What are you looking for in your supervisor?
Do you prefer to work alone or in a team?
Describe the human environment you would like to integrate?
How do you react when you disagree with your hierarchy?
How do you react to criticism?
Do you easily accept orders?
What are the most difficult decisions to make?
What are your salary expectations?
What is your mobility/flexibility in terms of working hours?
On your education:
Why did you choose this training?
Did you participate in any extracurricular activities?
If so, what and how?
Why didn't you continue your studies?
If you had to do it again?
Would you like to follow another training?
If you were to change something about the education system, what would you do?
Tell us about your studies.
Have you stayed in a foreign country?
On internships/summer jobs:
How did you find this internship?
What did you learn from it?
What difficulties did you encounter?
Which experience interested you the most?
(structure, industry, relationships, work…)
On your professional experience:
What did your experiences bring you?
What difficulties did you encounter?
What was your main success? Failure?
Tell us about your job changes.
Tell us about the "gaps" in your resume.
What decisions did you have to make in your previous jobs?
What were your relationships with management? With colleagues? With collaborators?
How do you see your evolution?
From your experiences, what character traits have helped you and which have hindered you?
Why are you looking for a new job?
Success-and-career.ch
Posted on December 14, 2011.
About yourself:
How do you go about looking for a job?
What is your ideal job?
What are the most important criteria in your choice?
How will you make the final choice?
If you had three adjectives to define yourself, what would they be?
How do you know you are what you say you are?
What are the weaknesses you know you need to work on?
Draw a self-portrait.
How would your entourage describe you?
What qualities/defects do you look for/hate in others?
On your professional goals:
Why did you apply to our company?
What image do you have of our company?
What caught your attention in our ad?
What do you think of the offered position?
What do you expect from this job?
What can you bring us?
What are your professional projects?
What are the qualities required for the position, in your opinion?
What will change for you by joining us?
How do you see yourself evolving?
What are you looking for in your supervisor?
Do you prefer to work alone or in a team?
Describe the human environment you would like to integrate?
How do you react when you disagree with your hierarchy?
How do you react to criticism?
Do you easily accept orders?
What are the most difficult decisions to make?
What are your salary expectations?
What is your mobility/flexibility in terms of working hours?
On your education:
Why did you choose this training?
Did you participate in any extracurricular activities?
If so, what and how?
Why didn't you continue your studies?
If you had to do it again?
Would you like to follow another training?
If you were to change something about the education system, what would you do?
Tell us about your studies.
Have you stayed in a foreign country?
On internships/summer jobs:
How did you find this internship?
What did you learn from it?
What difficulties did you encounter?
Which experience interested you the most?
(structure, industry, relationships, work…)
On your professional experience:
What did your experiences bring you?
What difficulties did you encounter?
What was your main success? Failure?
Tell us about your job changes.
Tell us about the "gaps" in your resume.
What decisions did you have to make in your previous jobs?
What were your relationships with management? With colleagues? With collaborators?
How do you see your evolution?
From your experiences, what character traits have helped you and which have hindered you?
Why are you looking for a new job?
Success-and-career.ch
Posted on December 14, 2011.
