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Common Interview Questions in an Interview - Various Categories Part 1

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Stress Questions
1.    What causes you to lose your temper?

2.    How often have you been absent from school, work or training ?

3.    How do you take harsh criticism?

4.    With your background, we believe that you are overqualified to join this job? What do you think?

5.    What would irritate you most in your manager ?


Skills / Abilities / Qualifications
1.    What do you consider to be your greatest strength ?

2.    Are you creative ? Give an example. What qualifications do you have that makes you think you will be successful ?

3.    Why should we take you ?

4.    What do you know about our company ?


Situational behavior
1.    Tell me about the time you were most persuasive in overcoming resistance to your ideas or point of view.

2.    Tell me about the last time someone made an unreasonable request of you.

3.    Describe the most disappointing and frustrating experience in gaining the support of others for an idea or proposal.

4.    Describe a situation where it was most important for you to display tact and diplomacy.

5.    Tell me about the last time you had a clash or disagreement with someone at school/college/workplace.

6.    Tell me about a time when you felt most frustrated and disappointed at a person with whom you had worked.

7.    Tell me about the last time you were criticized by a supervisor or a professor.

8.    Tell me about the time when you felt most pressured or stressed at work/ school/internship.

9.    In what aspects of your work/internship do you have the most confidence in your abilities.

10. Tell me about the time when you felt best about your ability to draw out or solicit information from another person.

11. Tell me about the time when you had to work your hardest in order to fully understand what another person was saying to you.

12. Describe the last time when someone at school/work misunderstood what you were trying to communicate.

13. Tell me about the most long term, sustained extra hours of effort that you put into your work/college/internship.

14. Describe a time when you felt most frustrated or discouraged in reaching your goals or objectives.

15. Describe the last time you did something well which went beyond the expectations in your work/internship.

16. Tell me about the last significant crisis situation that you faced in your work.

17. Tell me about a time when you were most persuasive in overcoming resistance to your ideas.


Positions of Responsibility
1.    Tell me about your experience during your internship?

2.    What positions of responsibility have you held during a job or your college?

3.    If you have worked earlier, how did your previous employer treat you ?

4.    What have you learnt from some of the jobs that you have held ?

5.    What jobs have you enjoyed most ? Least ? Why ?

6.    What have you done that shows initiative and willingness to work ?


Problem Solving and Decision Making
1.    Tell me about the last time you made a decision that backfired. 

2.    Tell me about the time when you regretted most not getting advice before you went ahead ?





Last Updated Date: June 19, 2012

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