Personality questions to ask job candidates:

 Tell me about yourself.

 What are three character traits that your friends would use to describe you?

 What are three positive character traits you don’t have?

 What do you like to do?

 What are your lifelong dreams?

 What do you ultimately want to become?

 What is your personal mission statement?

 Tell me about your proudest achievement outside of work.

 Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it?

 What is your greatest achievement outside of work?

 If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?

 What is the last book you read? What did you think of it?

 What magazines do you subscribe to?

 What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the last year?

 What would you do if you won the lottery?

 Who are your heroes?

 What do you like to do for fun?

 What do you do in your spare time?

 What is your favorite memory from childhood?

 What is one thing you’d like to achieve in life?

Work experience questions to ask job candidates:

 What types of jobs have you held in the past?

 What was your title at your current/previous/last job?

 What were your duties in that position?

 What did you like most/least about the position?

 Why are you leaving your present (or past) employer?

 What’s the most important thing you learned in school and/or at your last job?
 Why did you choose your major?

 If selected for this position, can you describe your strategy for the first 90 days?

 What is your understanding of the skills necessary to perform this job?

 What special training have you completed that qualifies you for this job?

 What certifications do you hold?

1. Are you the best person for this job? Why?

2. Are you overqualified for this job?

3. Describe a difficult experience at work and how you handled it.

4. Describe yourself.

5. Describe your best boss and your worst boss.

6. Describe your career goals.

7. Describe your work style.

8. Do you prefer to work alone or on a team?

9. Do you take work home with you?

10. Give some examples of teamwork.

11. Have you ever had difficulty working with a manager?

12. Have you gotten angry at work? What happened?

13. How do you handle pressure?

14. How do you measure success?

15. How long do you expect to work for this company?

16. How much do you expect to get paid?

17. How would you describe the pace at which you work?

18. How would you describe yourself?

19. How would you handle it if your boss was wrong?
20. If the people who know you were asked why you should be hired, what would they say?

21. Is there a type of work environment you prefer?

22. Tell me about yourself.

23. Tell me why you want to work here.

24. What are you looking for in your next position?

25. What are you passionate about?

26. What are your goals for the future?

27. What are your salary requirements?

28. What can you do for this company?

29. What can you contribute to this company?

30. What challenges are you looking for in your next job?

31. What did you like or dislike about your previous job?

32. What do you expect from a supervisor?

33. What do you find are the most difficult decisions to make?

34. What have you learned from your mistakes?

35. What interests you about this job?

36. What is your greatest strength?

37. What is your greatest weakness?

38. What major challenges have you handled?

39. What problems have you encountered at work?

40. What was your biggest accomplishment (failure) in this position?

41. What was most (least) rewarding about your job?

42. What relevant experience do you have?

43. What will you do if you don't get a job offer?

44. Why are you leaving your job?

45. Why do you want this job?

46. Why did you resign?

47. Why did you quit your job?

48. Why were you fired?

49. Why should we hire you?

50. What do you know about this company?