Interview questions

1. What is your name?

2. Can you give me some insight about yourself?
3. Who is your idol/ role model?
4. Who did you aspired to be as a youth?
5. What are your hobbies?
6. Where did you grow up?
7. What do you consider your greatest achievement in life?
8. What's your life plan? What do you plan to have accomplished in five, 10, 20, and 50
years -- personally and/or professionally?
9. What steps do you take to remain calm under pressure?
10. What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
11. What would you say most motivates you to do what you do?
12. What are you most excited or passionate about?
13. What are the goals you most want to accomplish?
14. Did you have any key mentors or people who deeply influenced who you are?
15. what you believe in and what you’re committed to in your work and life? Tell me
about them?
16. Did you have any life-changing experiences that put you on the path that led you to be
doing what you’re doing today? Tell me about them?
17. What’s next for you? What are you looking forward to?
18. What has been a defining moment in your life that made you decide to take the
direction in life that you did?
19. Do you have advice to offer people who are aspiring to be as successful as you are?
20. Tell me something about yourself that people might not readily know.
21. Is there anything else you would like to share with me?
22. Tell me about where you grew up and what your family life was like.
23. How did your parents influence you?
24. Where did you go to school?
25. Who have been your strongest influences in life?
26. How did you come up with the idea for your business?
27. What led you to your career?
28. How would friends and acquaintances describe you?
29. What are you most proud of accomplishing?
30. What would you do differently if you had a chance?
31. Share with me something about yourself that you want to improve.
32. Describe a scene of your vision for the future?
33. How did you get the idea for the company?
34. What experiences have you had that will help you make the company a success?
35. Where did you get the money to start the company?
36. Where were you born, what is your biography?
37. How many employees does the company have and how did you choose them?
38. What is the company's main emphasis, and does it have any side emphases and what
are they?
39. How will you publicize the company?
40. Does the company have a logo and does it have advertising slogans and what are
they?
41. Where were you born?
42. Tell me about your childhood, what was the best part? Worst?
43. Who was the most influential person in your life?
44. What is your profession and why?
45. What was the happiest time of your life?
46. Tell about a time when you didn’t know if you would make it.
47. Who is the love of your life and how did you meet?
48. What is your passion (or a favorite hobby?)
49. What is your favorite memory of me?
50. What do you value most and why?
51. How do you get into this line of work?
52. What do you enjoy about it?
53. What is not so great about it?
54. If you could talk to a younger version of yourself, what would you say?
55. Describe the work that you do.
56. Tell me about how you got into your line of work.
57. Do you like your job?
58. What did you think you were going to be when you grew up?
59. What did you want to be when you grew up?
60. What lessons has your work life taught you?
61. If you could do anything now, what would you do? Why?
62. Do you plan on retiring? If so, when? How do you feel about it?
63. Do you have any favourite stories from your work life?

Also here is some good follow up question to keep the interviewee talking

What makes you say that?

How do you know that?
Why do you feel that way?
Can you give me an example?
Has that ever happened before (or since)?
How would you respond to someone who disagrees with you about that?