Preparatory Questions:

1. Tell me about yourself.

2. Successful leaders have a great sense of purpose. What is yours?
3. What are your long and short-term goals? How are your preparing to achieve them?
4. What kind of work motivates you?
5. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
6. What failures have you experienced? What have you learned from your mistakes?
7. Describe an incident that has had a deep impact on you and brought about a significant change.
8. Assuming that you could do anything you wanted, what would you really like to do in life?
9. How do you determine or evaluate success?
10. What two or three things are important to you in your job?
11. Tell me about any leadership responsibilities you've had.
12. Describe a situation where you achieved something significant after overcoming obstacles.
13. What makes you better than the other people I'm seeing today?
14. Give me an example of how you exercised leadership in a recent situation.
15. Describe a situation where you had to persuade other to achieve a goal after overcoming
resistance. How did you go about doing it?
16. Tell me about a time when you were criticized. What was the issue involved, who made the
criticism, and how did you handle it?
17. Have you ever adopted a non-traditional approach to manage a project / situation or to solve a
problem? Briefly describe the project / situation of the problem, the approach and the outcome.
18. Please share highlights about your professional / academic achievements and in your
assessment, what differentiated you amongst your peers.