Win That Interview-BodhiSutra EDGE PDF

Win That Interview: A Workbook
Objective:
a) To present a coherent, consistent narrative of your past and present and arrive at a
forward-looking vision for your future that matches your past academic and extra-
academic performance, strengths and ambitions.
b) To present a powerful my-story to interviewers to differentiate you from other
students and create the best chance for superlative placement performance.
Best Practices:
For this exercise to be effective, it is important to remember the following:
a) No good story gets built in its first draft. So, do at least three (3) rewrites of this
worksheet. Recommended five (5).
b) Your first few answers to a particular question will always be the worst answers you
can give for that question. So, weed them out. You start saying something good from
fourth/fifth attempt at the same question. If you reach tenth, you’ve struck gold.
c) Don’t rush it. Don’t treat it as college homework. Spend time. Amount of time spent
thinking of an answer is the sole source of strength of that answer, no matter how
good you are.
d) Take a close look at your life. Only you have lived it. And only you have seen and felt
it. Now is the time to reflect on it, connect pieces together and see patterns emerge.
That would give you a huge source of unique data to build a story nobody else can.
That’s the objective.
e) Use examples liberally. Use concrete data. Your history is your big data. Cite data to
prove you have done similar things before.
f) Weed out inconsistencies. For example, you can’t justify bad academic performance
saying, “I played sports,” if you weren’t even a part of a school team. Say only what
you can defend against at least two levels of questioning.
g) Treat your past and present as the runway and build a direction for your future career
flight. You can change your field, just present it in such a way that there is a straight
line from your past to present to future.
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h) Practice answering these questions alone, with your BodhiSutra trainer, and, if
possible, with friends.
i) Take 3-5 printouts of these sheets and handwrite the answers. You may decide to type
it in after 3-5 iterations.
j) Hints given are guidelines, just one way to answer and not intended as the only way
to answer the question.
Let’s get started.
Personal
Background
1. Tell me about yourself. (3-4 sentences. Childhood/school, college, something
outstanding about acads/extra-acads, tie it up to IIMU stint and future)
2. What would you like me to know about you that is not on your resume? (An incident
from childhood or previous job/college that brings out initiative, leadership, courage,
team work, smart thinking).
3. What are the three most important events of your life? (Best answer is what you
deeply feel are most important events. Something that changed the course of your life,
or changed you or impacted you. Sad events are okay, just make sure you end it on a

positive, upbeat note mentioning specifically how it made you stronger, better thinker,
gave you perspective, helped understand things etc.)
4. What were you doing during this gap of time I see here on your resume? (Be honest.
Failures are okay too if you can show that you took that time to reflect and gain
perspective instead of just wallowing in misery.)
5. Where did you grow up? (Talk about home town. Sum up the experience. Show how it
makes you different from people who didn’t grow up in that/similar town. 3-5
sentences ideally).
6. What are your three major accomplishments? (Can be academic, extra-academic. Pick
the biggest 3. Names-dropping is good here. Find the best answer from your life-data.)

7. What was an experience in your life that you would want to go back and change? (Dig
deep. Focus on your reaction (what you would have done differently) instead of what
happened to you. It needs to come from deep within, only then will you have conviction
while speaking of it. Any answer is ok as long as it is authentic.)
Self Description
1. How would your friends describe you? (Time for polite brag. Friends are the ones
who know you best, (still!) choose to spend time with you, so they would have the
best things to say about you. One way is to think about your unique place in your
friends’ group – I am Mr Reliable/Advisor/Protector/Trouble-shooter of the group.
Or, you can talk about generic qualities that people interacting with you would know
in medium/long term more than short term)
2. Give me three words to describe yourself. (Me summary. Who are you? What’s your
story? What do you stand for? What can I expect from you? He is asking you to brag

about yourself. So, this is the absolute best picture that can exist for you. Paint that
picture. Just ensure it is your own. Authenticity is the key.)
Goals
1. What new goals have you established for yourself recently? (It’s ok if you don’t have
a clear view of the next five steps. No one does. Having a clear idea of the next goal,
and a broad idea of the direction you want to take for the next few steps is enough.
Again, formulate your own answer. Refine it. Do multiple iterations.)
2. What are your five to ten year career goals? (Generic direction of what you want to be
doing, how you want to be living, what important things you’d want to achieve and a
strategic level vision of it. Authenticity, again. They have to be your goals, things that
excite you. Must come from deep within. Doesn’t have to be very specific – ‘Associate
in 2 years, VP in 3.5 years, Partner in 7.65 years’ would be an overkill.)
3. What are the attributes of an ideal job for you? (Talk about what excites you at work.
What kind of skills you want to use and build, what kind of teams you love working

with, the kind of problems you love to solve, how do you respond to pressure – but
don’t get too specific because you won’t know much about the problems that MBA
grads solve in their first few years.)
4. If you could do “it” all over again, what would you do differently? (What all do you
wish you could have reacted differently to? What were the impacts of your original
reaction and how would the ‘different’ reaction have panned out? Essentially, asking
about your regrets. Fine to have one, max two. Don’t give a shopping list. If deep down,
you really are a no-regrets person, feel free to say: “Nothing. I would do everything
exactly the same way as before.” But, it’s a high-impact, high risk answer. They will dig
deeper and if you are not really a no-regrets person, they will know you lied.)
5. What are you looking for? (A different flavor of ‘ideal-job’ question.)

6. What other types of positions are you considering? (Time to show strong focus, only if
you have that: ‘I am only looking for finance jobs’. If you are exploring options, say so.
Find your own answer.)
7. What kind of boss would you prefer? (Talk about how you want to be given a task,
how you want to be helped, how you want to be held accountable, and how you want
to deliver.)
8. Why are you pursuing this field? (What excites you about it? How much does it excite
you? What makes you think you can do well here? Does your past corroborate this?
Have you displayed such skills in your history?)
9. What would you like your lasting impression to be? (Again, a self-brag question. No
one will paint a prettier picture of you than you yourself. A 3-line self-pitch, the
prettiest it can be. Throw in a harmless-flaw for humility. And don’t come across as a
pain-in-the-backside braggart.)

10. Do you have a final statement? (Closing remarks, a pithy summary. Include important
bits of your story that could have been overlooked, or something you wish to
particularly highlight. Tie it up with this conversation and future possibilities.)
11. What are your career options right now? (Don’t give a shopping-list of all career
options available for an MBA grad. He can get it from Google. He wants those options
that you think are compatible with you. Alternatives that you can see yourself spending
the next 10-20 years on, going deep and rising up. Match it up with your skills,
ambitions, temperament.)
12. How could you have improved your career path? (Again, a regrets question. For
someone in early twenties, studying in IIMU, the career path is pretty close to as good
as it could be. In exceptional cases, like something stopped you from going to Stanford
or acting as a lead in a Karan Johar movie or starring as an MVP for an IPL franchise,
mentioning that would be fair.)

Values
1. What does “success” mean to you? (Take your time to define success – how much does
money matter, job satisfaction, family, friends, health – an overall perspective.)
2. What does “failure” mean to you? (Can make a powerful impact if answered well.
Show you understand failures, understand they are an integral part of any creation
process, show you can reflect, take lessons and then shake them off. Do you fear failure
or are you willing to use them as stepping stones?)
3. Which is more important to you: money or the type of job? (Kinda trick question.
Money is important, at least for a fresh MBA grad. But you can’t project yourself as a
money-chaser-at-any-cost. Balanced answers are the best. Again, find your answer.
Authenticity is the key.)
4. Who do you admire? Why? (Choose your heroes wisely. It is fair to point out a specific
trait you admire in someone. It is also fair to say you don’t know much about their lives
apart from what you’ve read documented but you love a specific trait or how he/she
acted in a particular situation.)

5. What do you get passionate about? (Dig deep within. Find what excites you – like,
shaking with exciting, hair standing on its ends, eyes wide agape excited. Something
you can do day and night forgetting everything else. It’s okay to describe the type of
problems instead of a specific problem.)
6. Who is your hero, and why? (Role model question. You can use a family member or
friend, mention the trait you like about them, how they responded to a situation etc.)
Previous Bosses
1. Did you get an offer from the firm you worked for this summer? (Not relevant for
summers)
2. Do you have other offers? Why would/wouldn’t you take our offer over one of the
others? (Fact based question. Be honest. Talk about money, brand name, job profile –
any relevant factor.)

3. What can you tell me about your past bosses? (Never badmouth an ex-boss,
howsoever evil. Have good things to say – things you learnt, points where you got
supported well. An opportunity to show you are a positive person who can work with
people and not blame them for your failures or badmouth them)
4. How do you think a former supervisor would describe your work? (Think of what you
did, how you did it. Were you a quick learner? Were you dependable? What
outstanding results did you achieve? What made you unique? Relevant only if you have
previous work-ex)
5. What did you enjoy most about your last employment? Least? (Talk about what you
loved – maybe, the people, the culture, the problems they worked on, the environment,
learning opportunities. Have some specific incident ready where you felt proud/happy
to be working with them. You may skip the “like the least” part but if he presses, say
something that doesn’t blame an individual. It could be slow career growth or that you
couldn’t see yourself enjoying that work after a few years or something that holds for
you.)

6. How did you find your summer jobs? (Focus on what you liked – the work, the skills
you had to develop, knowledge you had to gain, people you worked with, the team,
work environment – things that hold for you.)
7. Describe the job or the activity which has had the greatest impact on your career
goals. (Reflection question. Think deeply about this. How has your career-ambition
been shaped by something you saw or did in a previous job? Why do you find what you
find exciting?)
Management / Leadership Style

1. What is your management philosophy? (How do you handle people? Do you work
closely on every small detail with the team, micromanage, or you give them flexibility
to choose how they do it? Do you believe in a lot of supervision or give the task trust
the guy and take status update? How would you handle intra-team issues? Can you tie
all this up in 3-4 sharp lines?)

2. Define leadership. (More than the OB definition, how do you see it in real life? What
do you think a leader does? What are critical qualities? What does a leader never do?
What is it that they have to do? The interplay of leadership-privilege, responsibility and
accountability.)
3. Tell me about a time when you successfully resolved a conflict. (Think of an example
from your past. Think of what you did? Why were you able to resolve the conflict when
others could not? What fresh thinking did you bring to the table?)
4. Give me an example of a leadership role you have held when not everything went as
planned. (Talk about when you faced a crisis as a leader. What happened? Why? What
was at stake? How did you resolve it? How much were you responsible – for the
problem, and solution? How did your team respond? Your seniors? Now, tie this into a
sharp 3-4 line story.)

5. What qualities should a successful manager possess? Do you have these attributes (of
a good manager)? (Straight-forward. Cite examples from your history when you
displayed these qualities. Use data from your life.)
6. What two attributes are most important in your job? (Straightforward. Spend time
thinking about it. The first answers you come up with won’t be the best answers. So,
iterate. Find better answers.)
7. Give an example of a situation in which you provided a solution to an employer.

(Example question. Use your historical data. Give a solid story. Problem. Stakes/costs.
Why was the solution difficult? How did you solve it? Why could you solve it when
others couldn’t? What fresh ideas did you bring in that others couldn’t? What was the
outcome? Now tie this all up in a 3-4 line story.)

8. Give an example of a time in which you worked under deadline pressure. (Example
question. Give a good story. Situation. Problem. Stakes. What did you do? How? What
was the outcome? What was your experience? What did you learn? Tie it up in a 3-4
line sharp story.)
9. Name a point in your life where you turned a negative into a positive. (Example
question, again. Dig deep. Find the biggest negative-to-positive in terms of the stakes.
Build the story: Situation. Problem. Stakes. Your solution. Idea. Action. Outcome. Why
you could solve it? What fresh ideas? What did you learn? Now, tie it all together.)
10. Tell me about a decision you have made that you later regretted. (Find a past regret.
What was the situation? What did you decide? Why? Why did you then regret it? What
would you have done differently? Why? In what ways did your thinking change that
you now think you would have decided it differently? Tie it all together.)

11. How do you feel about working overtime? (Find your own answer. A balanced
approach is the best – you aren’t uptight about working tight pressures but also aren’t
a joyless android who only works and has no life. Articulate your answer for impact.)
12. Give me an example of how you manage multiple projects. (If you have done it in the
past, cite the example. Say what you did. Also mention how, now that your thinking
has further improved, you would make some changes in your approach and will do it
even better this time. More relevant for people with work-ex but freshers can do the
exercise too – project in future how would you handle several projects. Fire up your
imagination, keep it grounded, build a story.)

13. What would you say to a boss that has a sub-par idea? (Definitely not: “Get off your
seat old man. Your time is up.” Find a way to smartly articulate your better idea. One
way could be - appreciate the boss’s idea, then build upon that idea to add things to it
and create a better idea and ask for his advice. Or any other way, that doesn’t make
him look bad. Find your own solution. Repeat: Don’t get all gangsta.)
Strengths / Weaknesses and Skills

1. Are you creative? Give me an example. What have you done that you consider
creative? (Find an example. Creative simply means you thought of an idea no one else
could. Build a story. Problem. Stakes. Others’ solution. Your solution. Why it worked?
What it changed? Tie it all together.)
2. What are your strongest abilities? (Think deep. Find your real strengths. Things that
you can do better than most others. Be ready with an example for each. Build each
story. You know the format by now.)

3. What is your biggest weakness? (Again, think deep. Smart alec answers aren’t good.
Never say that being a perfectionist is your biggest weakness. Some applicants think
that this makes you look better, but it seems that you not secure. Find a genuine
weakness that you have identified as an improvement area. Something that doesn’t
hinder your ability to deliver results at your job. But something you know must be
solved. Be ready with an example. Build a story for the example. Same format.)
4. Why should we hire you? (Standard question. Why you? What special do you bring to
the table that others don’t? Polite brag. Be ready to back it up with data from your life,
i.e. build an example story. The same steps.)

5. Give me an example of something that you have done that shows initiative. (Example
question. Think deep about your history. Find something. Create a story: Situation.
Problem. Others’ response. Your reaction. Your ideas/action. Its impact. The outcome.
What changed? What did you learn? Tie it all up.)
6. What makes you stand out among your fellow students? (Unique you, revisited. What
makes you distinct? What differentiates you from others? What special do you bring
to the table? Think deep. Have examples ready for each unique strength you mention.
Have examples as sharp stories of 3-4 lines. Use the format described above.)

7. What makes you different from the other candidates for this position? (As above. Still,
rewrite the answer. Remember, time spent and iterations done are the only things that
determine the strength of your answers.)
8. What can you do for us that someone else cannot do? (Unique you, but with a twist.
Build a different flavor of the above answer, this time, tailoring it to this particular
company and job. Focus on your unique skills that make you a differentiated candidate
for this particular set of interviewers.)
9. What was the most important thing you learned from your previous
experience/internship? (Dig deep. Find something that you can really trace back to

previous work-ex or internship. Tell a story. And for that, you first need to build the
story. Do it here. Same format.)
10. How do your skills relate to our needs? What can you offer us? (Connect your strengths
to the stuff they do. For this, you need to do solid company research too. Talk to seniors
who have worked here in the past. Gather info. Listen carefully. You have done a
version of this answer before. Rewrite this with a new flavor. What makes you
indispensable for them? Build a story. Use the format above.)
11. What have you disliked in your past jobs? (Think deep. Cite something that is not
connected to an individual, preferably. Take it more on your own preferences and
ambitions rather than the company. More like not a long-term fit with your strengths
and goals rather than some negative. Again, have a story, a complete argument.)

12. How long before you can make a contribution? In the past year, what have you been
dissatisfied about in your performance? (First part just means how you think about it.
Second part, a confession question. Cite an example. Give a story, a complete
argument. Talk about something fixable and that you are taking action to fix it.)
13. What major problem have you encountered and how did you deal with it? (Example
question. Think deep. Find a tough situation from your history that you handled like a
hero. Give the story complete with the problem, stakes, options, your solution, ideas
and actions, impact, what changed. Tie it all together.)

14. Have you ever had any failures? What did you learn from them? (Your chance to show
how mature, responsible, and forward looking you are. Dig deep. Find a failure story.
Format it well. Iterate. Include lessons you learnt. If there was a second Act, like, in a
similar situation you now reacted differently and got different results, include it. Tie it
all up.)
15. How do you feel about working in a structured environment? (Asking: Can you follow
rules? Say yes. Tell them things in IIMU too are pretty structured. Anywhere else you
have worked in a structured environment – school, college, hobby club, sports team –
mention that. Give a story.)

16. Are you able to work on several assignments at once? (Asking: Are you flexible enough
to work with or do you nitpick and squabble? Give examples from your past. Tell them
how you handle multiple assignments. Show them you are flexible and can adapt your
work-approach depending on the task at hand.)
17. In what kind of work environment do you do your best work? (Dig deep. Find what
doesn’t work for you. One approach could be, you talk about a couple things that
hinder your ability to work well. All else, you can adapt to. He is asking if you have a
strong streak that makes you unsuitable for certain work environments. Plus, you
wouldn’t know much yet about specific work environment at their company. So, going
too specific into what you want may not be the best strategy. Alternative could be to
tell what you don’t want and all else is fine. This, of course, isn’t the only way to answer
this. Find your sweet spot.)

18. What kinds of tasks and responsibilities motivate you the most? (Dig deep. Find
challenges and problems that excite you, that make you want to spend hours on them.
Things that you can’t wait to do. Use any examples from your history. Build a complete
argument.)
19. What has been your greatest challenge? (History question. Find the biggest challenge
you faced. Preferably, the one that made you push your boundaries, learn new stuff,
move outside your comfort zone and accomplish something. Build the complete story.)
Interpersonal Skills
1. How competitive are you? (Me question. Dig deep. Find what motivates you. Do you
want to stand first or do you want to improve upon your past performance? Any
answer is good, different jobs require different types of competitiveness. They are
trying to determine how well you fit with what they want.)

2. How do you work under pressure? (Me question. And good answer always covers the
idea that you handle pressure well. Think of all the times you worked overnight to
submit an assignment the next day, studied the night before the exam. It’s a quality
they want – ability to handle pressure. Find examples. Have the story ready.)
3. Give me an example of a time when you successfully worked within a team. (Example
question, again. And, an important one at that. Your chance to show you are a team
player. Find an incident. Tell them the different personalities you worked with. Tell
them how you coordinated. Tell them how the team went about using its collective
strengths, in cohesion to achieve the team goal. Build a full story.)

4. What types of people seem to rub you the wrong way? (Trick question. Talk about the
traits that miff you, instead of individuals. Keep them at max at one or two. A long list
would mean you are difficult to work with. Zero would mean you haven’t thought
about it. Build a complete argument. Iterate.)
5. Define cooperation. (Find your definition. Show that you can work with people keeping
the team goals at the top, find win-win situations and tide over minor irritants).
6. What kinds of people do you enjoy working with? (Dig deep. Find what kind of a team
would be your ideal team – what skills, what attitudes. Alternatively, you can go the
via-negativa route: define the kind of people you don’t want to work with, and all else,
you can adapt. Build a full argument.)

7. What kinds of people frustrate you? (Find what traits in people make them frustrating
for you. Have one or max two, not a long list. Find an example – see if you can
corroborate it in your life history-data).
8. Have you ever managed a conflict? How? (A great, juicy question – an opportunity to
showcase your leadership, people skills, and conflict resolution. Find an example. Build
a story. What was the situation? Problem? Stakes? Why weren’t the parties involved
able to solve it? How could you solve it – ideas, actions? What was the outcome?
Change? Tie it all up.)
9. Have you ever spoken before a group of people? How large? (Find an example of public
speaking from your life data. Build a complete story, the above format. How was the
experience? What did you learn? Did you enjoy it?)

10. With what kind of people do you like to work? (My ideal team question, with a twist.
One format could be: I can work with everybody except _____ kind of people. But I am
in my best form with people who ______. There can be other formats too, of course.
Find your sweet spot – an answer that you can deliver with twinkling eyes, deep
conviction and infectious energy. Iterate.)
Education
1. Why did you decide to get an MBA? (History question. Go honest. Joining MBA because
after first degree, it was the best option to expand career opportunities is a fair answer
too. So also, is the answer that everyone in your family is an investment banker and
you too wanted to be one. Any answer works, as long as it is your answer. So, find your
answer instead of an ideal one. Iterate. Do several versions of it. See how you can
articulate it best.)
2. Why IIMU? (Me question. Go honest. Dig deep to find your reasons for joining IIMU.
This was the best I got – is a fair answer too. As would be any other answer. Has to
come from deep within. Conviction. Remember, you are the one thing you are
supposed to know best. So, you can’t be tentative and inconsistent here.)

3. What made you decide to major in____? (Interest, career opportunities, seniors
suggested, I was curious – any answer is good. Honest and deeply felt. Your interviewer
has seen several people as smart as you. He will know when the answer isn’t coming
from deep conviction and is spoken just to sound nice. That would be death knell. So,
find a good answer. Do several iterations. Find the best way you can articulate it.)
4. What have you learned at IIMU that will help you on this job? (Great opportunity to
show you are aware, and a keen learner. What all skills, knowledge, attitude, mindsets
did you gain here? What did you learn from books, profs, system, peers? How does
that make you better now than what you were before this? How well have been these
months/years spent? Again, find an answer and iterate.)
5. Do you hold any leadership positions? (Fact based question. If you don’t say so. You
can talk about different priorities. Or, that you have held such positions in the past and

wanted to focus on something else. Or any other answer. Don’t get defensive. It is ok
to not hold a post because most of those interviewing won’t be holding one.)
6. What electives have you taken? Which did you enjoy the most? (Fact based. Need to
come from deep inside. Conviction. Also, be sure to brush the fundamentals of what
you cite as your favorite. Would be odd to be caught on the wrong foot in an elective
you yourself claim as a favorite.)
7. What college classes did you like the least? Why? (Fact based. Find your answer. Just
make sure you don’t cite Finance subjects as least favorite in a Fin interview. Iterate
your answer. Find the best articulation.)
8. Why didn’t you attend (another school)? (Why IIMU – different version. Kinda simple.
Authenticity and conviction are the key.)

9. How do you balance the different priorities MBA student life presents? (Talk about
different things you do – exercise, reading, hobby/club, sports, if you do them and how
do you find time for all of them. A chance to show you are an interesting person.
Authenticity is the key. Any activity you say you do despite the rigors of MBA life, you
should be able to withstand two levels of questioning on it.)
10. Did your grades accurately reflect your ability? Why/Why not? (Find your answer.
Articulate it well. A chance to show how great you are despite your bad grades, if they
are bad, that is. You can talk about how academic testing evaluates a limited number
of parameters while a person’s abilities could have several other dimensions. Or any
other lines. Just make sure you are not making excuses for your bad grades – system
is bad, exams don’t mean anything etc, and are also not bogged down by it. Best
answer would always follow the line: I didn’t perform well in the exams but there is a
lot more to me than exams can capture. Find a variant that holds for you.)

11. Describe the course that has had the greatest impact on your thinking. (Great
opportunity to show what you can do in things that excite you. Build a full story.
Iterate. Tell him about the change in thinking. Why it happened? Why is it important?
Tie it together.)
Extra Curriculars
(All these are fact-based questions from your life. Find those facts and then, interpret them.
See what those facts mean to your life and you. Put them in perspective. See what picture
emerges. As always, it is important to build a complete argument/story and also, iterate it
multiple times to find the best articulation.)
1. What extra-curricular school activities are you involved in? (While it is a good idea to
show that you are well rounded, it is a good idea to stress those activities which show
team involvement and leadership. Find the data, and do the first level interpretation.
Build a picture.)

2. What have you learned from your activities? (Interpretation of data question. What
do your extra-curriculars mean to you? How have they impacted you, made you better,
build your skills, given you capability to solve problems?)
3. Were your extracurricular activities worth the time you put into them? (The last
question, a different flavor. They were worth the time if you can find a meaning behind
those activities/facts – things you learnt, things you saw, skills you build, what
problems can you now solve better due to your exposure to those activities?)
4. How did you become involved in your extracurricular activities? (Story time. Tell me a
nice story about how you got started with the fun activities. Tell me what made you
continue doing them? What did you like about them? Yes, I want to know what kind of
a person you are.)

5. What do you enjoy doing outside of work-in your free time? (Are you a fun person to
be with? If I am stuck with you at an airport for three hours, will you bore me to death
or make me wish those three hours stretch to five? What can you talk about with the
excitement and energy of a happy child? Of course, it would be the things you like to
do outside work. As always, understand what he is really asking and then build your
answer based on facts and their interpretation. Iterate.)
6. What is your favorite book/movie/song/painting-or author/actor/singer/artist?

(Similar question, different flavor. Tell me what really gets you going outside work. And
then, let me test you if you are bluffing me. So, whatever you answer, make sure you
can hold a brief conversation over it and won’t stumble at first level questioning.)
7. Which magazines/newspapers do you read regularly? Which books have you read
recently? (Whatever you say, make sure you can talk about it. Worst answer to this

could be you saying something and then appearing clueless over it. You should know
more about it than him because it is your choice – basic logic: I am supposed to know
more about things I like than you, unless you too turn out to be a fellow-enthusiast. In
that case, congratulations. This is a good turn in the interview.)
8. Have you ever done volunteer activities? (Again, same rule. Honesty and authenticity.
Be ready to talk about it. Know more about it than the interviewer. If not, say so. One
doesn’t need to be a social worker at twenty-two, or for that matter, at any age. If you
haven’t, its fine too. I am sure you have found other interesting things to do in your
free time. Netflix, or its cousins don’t count.)
Job / Company / Industry

(A critical component. They want someone who is excited to join their company, especially
the top recruiters. But how do they measure excitement? The twinkling in your eyes? Well,
that could be a decent measure but can also be manipulated – you could be an Oscar level
actor, after all. A better metric is to check how much effort you have spent in knowing about
their company. An easier problem to solve. That’s why top recruiters often ask these
questions.)

1. Why are you interested in ______? / Why do you want to work for us? (Combine your
company research with your me-research. Find the common ground. Expand on it.
Show me how you see creating a win-win for everyone. Build a complete story. Iterate.)
2. What makes you want to be a _____? (Combine job-research with me-research. Do

you know what it means to be a consultant/I-banker/Salesman? Would you really
want to do it for years on end? What, you haven’t really thought about that? All you
want is your first job? Bad form, boy. It’s a big life decision for you. And, it’s an
important decision for us too, else I wouldn’t be here. We want someone who will stick
around, be excited and bring his best. If I find someone who has done this thinking and
is sure he would love to be what we offer, we will take him. You can do your
experiments and testing elsewhere.)
3. What makes you think you would be successful in _____? (Again, an interest question.
How strong is your interest in this role/career we offer? Have you made the effort to
think about it – about how it fits with your strengths and temperaments? Are you sure
you want to do this? How do I find out, you ask? Simply, by asking you a plain looking
question, then probing you and looking for inconsistencies. If you tie yourself in knots
or contradict something you said before, you’re toast.)

4. What do you think this job requires? (Job research question. Best is, talk to a senior
who joined them, or has had similar jobs. More relevant for final placements. If senior
isn’t reachable, find another way to know more. What skills, attitudes and
temperament it needs. You don’t need to be exactly right – directionally right is fine
too. Just show me you made the effort and that effort didn’t lead you down the wrong
direction.)
5. Given that you have no background in this field why are you interested in it?
(Interesting question. If answered smartly, it can be the clincher for you. Dig deep. Find
your skills, and temperament elements. Find a match with what the job needs. And
then add a dash of passion – with electric energy, twinkling eyes and the conviction of
V Kohli talking about cricket, tell them what makes you so excited about it.
Fundamental skill/temperament match plus unmatched passion for it – any knowledge
gap would be easy to fill, as it is you are a fast learner. But, before all that, build an
answer. Create a complete argument. Iterate. Uncover the best articulation you can.)

6. What do you predict is going to happen in this industry in the next 5 years? (More of
a ‘am I just a paycheck to you’ or ‘did you spend some effort reading around’. Know
bigger, broader pointers. No one expects you to be an expert in an industry you haven’t
even entered. More like, do you have the potential to be one. And how do they find
out? By seeing if you did some reading and thinking about it. Do you know what you
are getting into? Do you have a stronger intent than others? Does that intent show in
your efforts? Again, form a complete argument. Iterate. Find the best version.)
7. How would you go about evaluating a business? (More of a Fin question. Knowledge
based and hence with enough effort, a great answer to this is highly possible. Find it,
then iterate it to arrive at the best articulation of it.)

8. What do you know about our company? (Hygiene factor level research is okay. They
don’t expect you to have an insider’s knowledge. But have you done basic searches
and asking around? Do you know as much as anyone vaguely interested in our
company would? A great opportunity to not just show your interest in their company
but also to showcase your meticulousness and resourcefulness. You can find info and
insights if you want to. Do this, at least for all top companies you have in your list.
Make that effort. Again, a complete argument, iterations, best articulation.)
9. Do you know who are competitors are? (Part of company/industry research. Find the
main players. How are they stacked against each other? What are the market shares?
The more coveted the recruiter, the more your research in them becomes important.
Do your searches. Formulate your hypothesis. Back it with data. Iterate. Find the best
articulation.)
10. What interests you most about this position? What parts of the job do you think you
would find the least satisfying? (Again, have you done enough searches and asking
around question. Combined with a do you know yourself bit. Spend time. Do the
searches. Ask around. Be resourceful. Formulate a good answer.)

11. You have five minutes to describe the most relevant and specific items in your
background which show you are uniquely qualified for this position. (Similar question.
Two parts: Do you know enough about us, and Do you know enough about yourself. A
third hidden part: Can you find a match? Build a complete argument. Iterate. Write
and rewrite.)
12. What would you add to our firm? (Similar question, with a dash of ‘why you?’.
Formulate your answer. Build a complete argument. Iterate. Research into the
company, job role and reflection into yourself are pre-requisites. Spend time.)

13. What particular expertise do you have that would lend itself well to this position?
(Why you? Focus on your matching strengths and their requirements. Borne out of
research. Do the homework – complete argument and iterated to discover the best
articulation you can do.)
14. Demonstrate/illustrate skills that you can transfer from past experience. (Example
question. But focus on relevant skills. Research beforehand into what they want and
then match it up with what you offer. Find examples in your past when you displayed
that skill to good effect. Build a complete story. Iterate.)
15. What concerns you about our company? (You in any case, know too little about the
company to be really concerned about it, unless there has been a very public, visible
recent issue, which is a rarity. Show you have done the research, you have the info that
an outsider can get, and then, you may stop short of naming a specific concern. Of
course, there are other ways to approach it as well – feel free to choose others if you
think you can pull them off. The idea is to come across knowledgeable about the
company and the industry but also to realise the limitations of your current
understanding. Find your own answer. Iterate.)

16. What do you believe are the key issues and problems in our industry today? (An
industry research question. Talk about how the industry is growing, what issues you
see the industry facing, be it regulatory or demand side or supply side. Show that you
know about the industry and also, understand enough to have a first level defensible
opinion. Build a complete argument and iterate.)
Location
(More of a flexibility question. Having too strong a preference for a location could be
counterproductive. Decide based on the context. Even if you want to convey a location
preference, don’t bring it up as a constraint. And don’t forget to underscore that you are
flexible.)
1. Why do you want to relocate to______? (Tell them what excites you about the place.
Family ties, earlier experience, long held desire, love for nature, city. Whatever. Make
sure you don’t come across as too rigid and hung up on a particular location.)

2. Are you willing to relocate every two years or so? (Flexibility is key. At this stage, more
so. Unless you have kids in school, wife working, old parents recuperating, there is
really no reason not to be open to relocation. A young man/woman would be in the
exploration mode and willing to step out. As always, formulate your own answer. Build
a complete argument. Iterate.)
3. How do you feel about travel? (Isn’t that what youth is for? Kidding. But, generally the
best answer is that you are excited about travel. Shows you are flexible – this is the
only time when you can be – as you grow old, flexibility will reduce. Find your own
answer. And then, find its best articulation.)

4. Are you familiar with how taxing travel can be? (Trying to get you to second guess. But
even if it is taxing, youth is still the best age to do it. Show them you have the energy
and the pizzazz to cope up with it. Tell them you find it exciting. Or, find another
approach that works for you. Just make sure you don’t come across as a stuck up, rigid
grumpy uncle.)
Functions
General
1. Tell me a joke. (Icebreaker. Polite small talk. Show them you are a fun guy. The stuck-
at-the-airport-for-three-hours test. Needless to say, don’t go raunchy, sexist, racist. A
joke you can tell in a family outing and expect people to laugh. Or any other. But, know
what you are going to say. Find your own answer.)
2. What if I told you that you’d work very hard, but recognition of your contributions
would be nil? (Of course, that won’t happen. They know a smart person won’t be okay
with that, not for long in any case. They want to see how recognition-hungry you are
because if you are, that’s a red flag. They realise this is an interview so you are at your

best behavior and most politically correct. They will extrapolate from your answer. But
saying ‘recognition doesn’t matter’ would be too insincere. They would know you are
saying it to sound nice. One approach is: “For the first couple of years, I want to focus
on learning and skill building. Recognition, if comes, is good, if not, doesn’t matter.”
Or your version of it. Or any other approach. Just make sure you don’t paint yourself
as an accolade-hungry show pony.)
3. What stocks do you recommend? Why? Should I buy stock in _______? (Relevant for
Fin jobs. Maybe even Consulting. Give an opinion only if you have done research, know
what you are talking about and can give arguments in favor. Also, if you are looking
for a hardcore finance job, especially trading or equity research, this is what you must
do – have some opinions on stock market. And it’s a time taking process, so start early.
Yes, a good way to stand a good chance at fin jobs is to start building an understanding
as early as possible, maybe months even years in advance. Formulate your answer.
Build a complete argument.)
4. Where are interest rates going in the next 3 months? (Corporate finance question.
Exposes how interested you really are or have you just heard about the glamorous

corp-fin jobs and that’s your main driver here. Show you’ve done homework. And for
that, you actually have to do the homework. Corp-fin, focus really helps because that
gives you a chance to build all these strengths.)
5. How many new highs did the Dow reach last year? (Another corp-fin question. Your
study of stock market would cover that. If you don’t know Dow but know Sensex, you
can talk about that. Again, formulate your answer. Don’t leave it to be thought of at
the interview chair.)
6. If you could make a major policy change IIMU, what would it be? (A chance to show
you can think strategically, identify problems or reasons restricting potential and find
ways to unlock what is already available or can be easily had. Formulate a good
answer. Define the problem. Find what’s currently causing it. Find how your ideas can
resolve it. And also check if there would be any unintended consequences. Build a
complete argument. Iterate.)

7. If you had six months ahead with no obligations and no financial constraints, what
would you do? (Time to show what really excites you and who you are as a person.
Build a good answer consistent with your strengths, weaknesses and temperament,
the story you have built for yourself. Build a complete argument. Refine it.)
8. If you could invite anyone you would like to a dinner party (famous or historical
figures, dead or alive), which ten people would you invite? (People you admire. People
you think can teach you a thing or two. People you look up to. Find a good answer.
Time to show your spark and creativity. Give them something interesting. Refine.)
9. If you could trade places with someone for a week, who would it be? (Another way of
asking what would you like to become if you didn’t have the constraints of location,

skill or resources. Another way to see the real you – things that excite you, things you
aspire for. Build a complete answer. Refine and rewrite.)
10. Sell me the desk. (A sales skill question. Find creative ways. Think of a good answer.
Reiterate because your first few thoughts would be everyone’s first few thoughts. Dig
deeper. Find answers that nobody else would give.)
11. Rate me as an interviewer. (Look for specifics. Find positives. Again, specific holds more
weight than generic, vague positive strokes. Tell him something he would like to hear
but make it meaningful by going specific. Like: I liked how you grilled me on the
strengths question. It just showed you weren’t just okay with what I said but wanted
to dig deep and explore.)

Consulting
1. Why consulting? Why this firm? (Needs a good answer. They are evaluating you on
how well can you make a case. How well can you articulate it, back it with data and
articulate it. Company research comes handy here, in fact, is indispensable. For all top
consulting firms, do this exercise well in advance of the interview. Build a complete
case. Do it separately for each consulting firm you interview for. Iterate.)
2. What does a consultant do? What are the three most important qualities of a
successful consultant? How is our practice different from other consulting firms?
(Company and job research. A huge part of preparation for consulting jobs. You need
to talk to someone working in the company, seniors are a best bet. It is a must for
consulting jobs. Read the material available online about work culture and experience
at those firms. Find out how is the work environment and culture different from other
companies. Find what qualities are needed to succeed there. Then, formulate your
answer over multiple iterations. Build a full argument.)

3. How do you rank in relation to your peers? (Or, tell me in which relevant skills would
you rank at the top. It’s not just academic. You can talk about skills - analytical,
communication, convincing, problem solving – since they haven’t specified the scale,
choose your own. Just make sure it is relevant and you rank at the top on it. Build a
complete argument and iterate.)
4. Imagine we are reviewing your performance at our firm after working with us for six
months. What do you think our evaluation would be? (Asking you the question they
themselves are seeking an answer to in the interview. They want to see how you
analyze and how you see yourself. And, in any case, your own assessment would be
the best-case scenario. Build a good answer. Don’t be unnecessary humble and don’t
be vacuously bragging. Formulate the complete argument. Explain what skills you see
seeing you through. Explain how you much effort you want to put in and show them
you have the drive to succeed in the hyper-competitive consulting world. Iterate.)

5. Highlight your top achievements/accomplishments? (Name the achievement. Give a
story about why you rate them so high. Was the scale of achievement so big? Or the
change it brought in you or your life journey was huge. Or the amount of effort it took
you, the amount of growth you had to undergo. Build a complete story. Several
versions and then finalize the best articulation.)
6. What has been your biggest setback? (Again, me-question. Dig deep. What was it?
Why do you call it the biggest setback? What did you lose, or failed to gain? What were
the reasons? What went wrong? How did the experience change you? How did it help
you grow?)
7. With whom are you interviewing? How have you fared? (Fact based question. Be
honest. Give a good, positive reply. Don’t predict results. Something like: The
interviews were good. Let’s see. Or something like that. Or, some other approach. As
always, you and your context determine the best approach. Just make a complete
argument.)

8. What is the most important thing that you have learned in the past year? (Talk about
a skill you picked. Knowledge is cheap, everyone can get it reading up online. And have
a story ready. What did you learn? Why do you call it the most important? Can you
defend this statement if he starts questioning you? Generally, enough background to
withstand first level questioning is enough. You don’t have to be a master. Just don’t
throw high sounding words from a hat. Say something relevant and defensible in your
context. Iterate.)
9. Give me an example of a situation in which you had a problem, how you identified the
problem, the methods you used to solve the problem and discuss the resolution.
(Great opportunity to show the future consultant in you. And the best part, you can
prepare the answer months before the actual interview. So, build the complete story.
Problem. Separating symptoms from the disease. The solution. Implementation. Other
consequences. Build a complete case. Again, iterate.)

10. If given an offer, how will you decide whether or not to accept it? (Talk about what
important criteria you would use to choose an offer. The question can take different
forms depending on the context. If they are asking whether you would accept theirs,
say what you intend to do.)
Marketing
1. What is marketing? Define the difference between marketing and advertising.
(Knowledge based question. Make sure you don’t mess this up. Write it down. And
iterate it too.)

2. What does it take to be successful in marketing? (Knowledge based. Use all your
understanding from the classes and cases. Find a good answer. Iterate.)
3. What are the attributes of a successful marketing campaign? How do you motivate
others, particularly those over whom you have no direct authority? (Good answer.
And be ready to explain it. Give examples. Cite data. Prepare in advance. Iterate.)
4. How have you developed your interpersonal skills? (Trace back to when you flipped
from being an awkward teenager to a confident youth able to talk and connect to
people. Or your journey of building interpersonal skills. What prompted you? What did
you do? How do you rate your interpersonal skills today? Full argument, and iterate.)

5. Give me a specific example of a time you solved a problem creatively? (Example
question. Build a complete story. Problem. Stakes. Reasons. Solution. Idea. Actions.
Resolution. What changed? Why do you call it creative? Iterate to find the best
articulation.)
6. What is the most important thing that you’ve learned about managing people from
your previous work experience? (Talk about work experience, or if you have none, say
so and then talk about something you learnt while managing some task in
college/school. Give some insight. Build a complete story. Make sure you do enough
prior research on your learning – read up on it. Refine and iterate.)

7. Rank order characteristics important for brand management. (Knowledge based.
Don’t mess this up.)
8. Scenario: Create a plan to market Brand X in Bangalore. (Can you apply what you’ve
learnt in class? Or at least give a viable plan that can stand first level scrutiny? So, build
an answer. And then, do a second and third and fourth version of it, because the first
few answers will always be your worst.)
9. What did you dislike about your former employer? (Avoid individual criticism. Avoid
negativity. Best answers usually revolve around career aspiration mismatch, or
disinterest in doing that work for long. Find your own answer. Don’t come across as a
complaining, whining little baby.)

10. Give me a 30 second commercial about yourself. (Why you question. In a creative
form. Say something interesting. Iterate.)
11. Pick a good and bad ad campaign and discuss them. (The more visible the campaign,
the better. Have a solid case for both good and bad examples. Prepare reasons and full
arguments on why you think the way you do. Iterate.)
12. Give an example of a well/managed product. (Showcase your industry awareness and
ability to apply what you learnt in class. Find good reasons, build a complete
argument.)

13. Pick a product and position it. (Application question, again. Have a complete argument
with 3-4 points to support your stance. Iterate.)
14. Give me an example of a leadership role you have had. Give me another one, give me
another one, give me another one............
Corporate Finance (Investment Banking)

1. Why investment banking? Why this bank? (Job and industry awareness question. Read
up enough. Know what they do. Talk to seniors. Find what you would like about the
job. Also find how working with this bank is different. Then weave your answer. Do this
for every top I-bank you interview for. Do it multiple times for each bank.)
2. Why corporate finance as opposed to sales and trading? What are your outside
activities? Why would you be willing to give them up for such a demanding job? (Corp-
fin needs a strong fit. So, explore deep within. Is your interest in corp-fin strong enough

to allow for a pretty demanding job? Would you want to do it for a long enough time?
If yes, your answer should convey the conviction. Iterate. If no, skip to the next section.)
3. What role do you play in group situations? (Are you the leader? Are you reliable? Ideas
man? Heavy lifter? Find your own answer. Conviction with which you express it and
how well can you defend it against first level questioning is what’s critical.)
4. What would you do if offered drugs as part of the deal? (Or other ethically focused
questions. Never take an ethically compromising position. And some of these questions
could be tricky. Like: Tell me an incident where you bent the rules. Talk about breaking
school rules, college rules etc. if you must but never ever about breaking a law. Such
questions are common so do your homework. Know what to say. Articulate it well so
that you don’t tie yourself up in knots. Iterate.)

5. How smart are you? How do we know how smart you are? (Tricky question. Find a
smart answer. Then junk it. Find another smart answer. Junk it again. Another smart
one. Junk it again. Reach 7-8th answer, preferably 10th. That’s your smart one. Make
sure you build a complete argument.)
6. Sell us on your quantitative skills. (Dig deep question. Why do you think you are good
in quants? What data from your life proves that to you? Use that to build a case. Don’t
just say: I see numbers in my sleep.)

7. If we made you an offer today, would you take it? (Fact based, context based. Say
what you mean.)
8. What did the Dow, S&P or NASDAQ close at yesterday? (Or Nifty, Sensex. Must know.
Would be pretty bad if a corp-fin job seeker doesn’t know indices.)
9. What stocks do you follow and why? (Again, a great way to show interest and focus
in corp-fin. And should ideally be started at least months before the placement. It
would take time for you to gain enough understanding to say something meaningful.)
Sales and Trading

1. What other firms have you talked to? (Fact based. Simple.)

2. What makes you think you can sell? (Do you have convincing skills? Can you get people
interested in an idea, then give you their attention and eventually allow themselves to
get convinced by you? An important question for sales interviews. Also, find examples.
Scan through your history data and find examples when you convinced people. Iterate.
A good answer to this puts you on real solid ground.)
3. Would you like to do sales or trading? Why? (Dig deep question. Find the difference
between sales and trading, talk to a couple seniors in those jobs and discover what
would excite you more. Iterate.)
4. Tell me what you think a trader (or salesperson) does. (Knowledge based. If you have
done enough asking around and searches, you’d have the raw material. Make sure you
have a good articulation too. Iterate on your answer.)

5. Why selling debt vs. selling equity? (Research question, and a bit of ‘you’ thrown in.
Know the difference. Know which one do you prefer. Have reasons. Iterate to get to
the best articulation.)
6. Why not corporate finance? (‘You’ question. Dig deep. Find why you like one over the
other. For that, do the searches and asking around. Get an idea of what it is like. The
reasons will come from your understanding of yourself as well as your research into
what is needed. But have a good reason. Iterate for best articulation.)
7. What do you think having an MBA does for you in this field? (How has MBA helped
you? What new skills and mindsets have you acquired here, apart from the knowledge
you gained? How has your perspective grown? Build a complete story. Iterate.)

8. What particular markets or instruments are you interested in? (Research question.
Have well thought out answers. Iterate several times to arrive at your best
articulation.)
9. Describe an instance where you persuaded someone to do something they initially

didn’t want to do. (How good are your convincing skills? Can you influence people,
show them aspects they didn’t see before, make it a win-win and get them to tide over
their initial disagreement? Find an example from your history. Build a story. Iterate.)
10. What about your personality will make you a good trader? (Are you a risk taker? A
hustler? Do you like intense action? Can you think on your feet? Do you have that
combativeness? What other qualities you think a trader should have? Do you have
them? Build a complete story. Iterate.)

11. How will you motivate yourself to make the calls you hate to make? (Can you tide over
your own reservations and make decisions that need to be done? Do you have an
example from your history? How can you say you’d be able to do so? Complete story.
Iterate.)
12. What are your grades?
13. Tell me a joke. (Don’t go too adventurous.)
Strategic Planning & Corporate Finance

1. What do you hope to gain by working for our firm? (Why us? Show them you’ve done
research into their company, you have reflected enough about yourself to understand
you and you see that there is a match. Skills you’d enhance, exposure you’ll get,
mindsets you’ll gain. Build a complete argument. Iterate.)

2. Where do you see yourself five years from now? (Goals + your own expectations about
your performance. Iterate. Don’t go by the first answer that pops up in your head.)
3. How do you see your career progressing in our firm? (Do you expect yourself to do
well? Why? Can you give reasons? Are you able to show that you have done enough
work to understand what it takes to thrive in this company, as well as yourself and do
you really believe there is a match?)
4. What do you know about our industry? (Research question. Have a well-formed
hypothesis. Something that you can back up with data and defend against first level
questioning. Build a complete argument. Iterate.)

5. Our ____ division is thinking of introducing a (such and such) new product. How would
you go about determining if this is a good idea? (Thinking on your feet. But you can
practice with similar questions before the interview. Have a framework to evaluate a
new product – its suitability and potential. Complete argument. Iterate.)
6. How does M&A activity in banking affect our industry? (Research question. Have a
defensible hypothesis. Well-articulated. Don’t go by your first answer.)
7. We are having trouble managing our (division.) What do you think the key
performance metrics might be and how might you go about improving them? (Again,
in the interview, the question might throw a surprise element. But have a framework
ready for answering such questions. Know what questions to ask. What to focus on?
How to build an argument? How do you figure that all out – by solving such questions
beforehand, by building a framework.)

8. How would you go about valuing our (division) for a potential sale, spin-off,
liquidation? (Can you apply what you learnt? Practice beforehand. Have a model.)
Questions to Ask
(Typically, the last part of the interview. Have a few questions ready from each head. Shows
you are aware and thoughtful, curious and proactive.)
Company
1. What are your company’s strengths and how do you capitalize on them?
2. What are your company’s weaknesses and how are you dealing with them?
3. How have you strategically responded to the competition?
4. Where will the major sources of your business be in the next 5 years?
5. What challenges are facing this company? Do you think your company is reacting to
them?
6. Do you have plans for expansion?
7. What are your growth projections for the next year?
8. Have you cut your staff in the last three years?
9. What is the largest single problem facing your staff/department right now?

Industry
1. What changes do you anticipate in the industry?
2. What risks will your company face due to industry changes?
3. What legislation is pending that will affect your firm?
4. Career Opportunities / Path / Training
5. What are the best opportunities at your firm for new hires?
6. How is worker performance measured and reviewed?
7. Do you have a mentor program? How about formal training programs?
8. Why do people leave?
9. Why have you stayed with the company?
10. Describe my initial assignments?
11. If you hire me, what are the three most pressing issues you need resolved?
12. What kinds of assignments might I expect during the first six months on the job?
13. Are salary adjustments geared to the cost of living or job performance?
14. In what ways is a career with your company better than one with your competitors?
15. Please describe the duties of the job for me.
16. Does your company encourage further education?
17. How often are performance reviews given?
18. What is the usual promotional time frame?
19. Has there been much turnover in this job area?
20. Is there a lot of team/project work?
21. Where does this position fit into the organizational structure?
22. Do you fill positions from the outside or promote from within first?
23. What skills are especially important for someone in this position?
24. What qualities are you looking for in the candidate who fills this position?
25. Will I have the opportunity to work on special projects?
26. What is the next course of action? When should I expect to hear from you, or should
I contact you?
Culture
1. What is your company’s management style?
2. How do you feel about creativity and individuality?
3. What do you like best about your job/company?

4. What characteristics do the achievers in this company seem to share?

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5. What are you looking for? (A different flavor of ‘ideal-job’ question.)

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Management / Leadership Style

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7. Give an example of a situation in which you provided a solution to an employer.

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Strengths / Weaknesses and Skills

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6. What is your favorite book/movie/song/painting-or author/actor/singer/artist?

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2. What makes you want to be a _____? (Combine job-research with me-research. Do

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