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1. Are you the best person for this job? Why? - Best Answers 2.

Describe a difficult experience at work and how you handled it. - Best Answers 3. Describe yourself. - Best Answers 4. Describe your best boss and your worst boss. - Best Answers 5. Describe your career goals. - Best Answers 6. Describe your work style. - Best Answers 7. Do you prefer to work alone or on a team? - Best Answers 8. Do you take work home with you? - Best Answers 9. Give some examples of teamwork. - Best Answers 10. Have you ever had difficulty working with a manager? - Best Answers 11. Have you gotten angry at work? What happened? - Best Answers 12. How do you handle pressure? - Best Answers 13. How do you measure success? - Best Answers 14. How long do you expect to work for this company? - Best Answers 15. How much do you expect to get paid? - Best Answers 16. How would you describe the pace at which you work? - Best Answers 17. How would you describe yourself? - Best Answers 18. How would you handle it if your boss was wrong? - Best Answers 19. If the people who know you were asked why you should be hired, what would they say? Best Answers 20. Is there a type of work environment you prefer? - Best Answers 21. Is there anything else I can tell you about the job and the company? - Best Answers 22. Tell me why you want to work here. - Best Answers 23. What are you looking for in your next position? - Best Answers 24. What are you passionate about? - Best Answers 25. What are your goals for the future? - Best Answers 26. What are your salary requirements? - Best Answers 27. What can you do for this company? - Best Answers 28. What can you contribute to this company? - Best Answers 29. What challenges are you looking for in your next job? - Best Answers 30. What did you like or dislike about your previous job? - Best Answers 31. What do you expect from a supervisor? - Best Answers 32. What do you find are the most difficult decisions to make? - Best Answers 33. What have you learned from your mistakes? - Best Answers 34. What interests you about this job? - Best Answers 35. What is your greatest strength? - Best Answers 36. What is your greatest weakness? - Best Answers 37. What major challenges have you handled? - Best Answers 38. What problems have you encountered at work? - Best Answers 39. What was your biggest accomplishment (failure) in this position? - Best Answers 40. What was most (least) rewarding about your job? - Best Answers 41. What relevant experience do you have? - Best Answers 42. What will you do if you don't get a job offer? - Best Answers 43. Why are you leaving your job? - Best Answers 44. Why do you want this job? - Best Answers 45. Why should we hire you? - Best Answers

46. What do you know about this company? - Best Answers 47. What interests you about this opening? (Or why do you want to work for us?) 48. What interests you about this opening? (Or why do you want to work for us?) 49. What do you know about our company so far? 50. Why did you leave your last job? (Or why are you thinking about leaving your current job?) 51. Tell me about your experience at ___. (Fill in past job.) 52. What experience do you have doing ____? (Fill in each of the major responsibilities of the job.) 53. Tell me about your strengths. 54. Tell me about a time when (Fill in with situations relevant to the position. For instance: Tell me about when you had to take initiative you had to deal with a difficult customer you had to respond to a crisis you had to give difficult feedback to an employee You get the idea.) 55. What salary range are you looking for? (See these suggestions for answering questions about salary.) 56. What questions do you have for me? (You can find ideas for your own questions here.) 57. What are the first five things you would do if you got this position? 58. Whats most important to you in a new position? 59. How does this position fit in with the career path you envision for yourself? 60. What has been your biggest professional achievement? 61. If I spoke with your previous boss, what in which areas would he or she say you need improvement? 62. How would you deal with an angry or irate customer (or STUDENT )? 63. What is the name of our CEO? 64. What questions havent I asked you? 65. What was the last book youve read for fun? 66. Discuss your educational background. 67. Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of. 68. Tell me about a time you made a mistake 69. What is your dream job? 70. How did you hear about this position? 71. What would you look to accomplish in the first 30/60/90 days on the job? 72. Discuss your resume 73. What makes you uncomfortable? 74. What are some of your leadership experiences? 75. How would you fire someone? 76. What do you like the most and the least about working in this industry/field?
Sources: http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2011/01/24/the-10most-common-job-interview-questions http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewquestionsanswers/a/top-50-job-interviewquestions.htm http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/01/11/how-to-ace-the-50-most-commoninterview-questions/

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