JOB INTERVIEW GUIDE QUESTIONS:

Starting the Interview Questions:

1. How are you today?

2. Do you have any difficulty in getting here?
3. Would you like to have some coffee, tea or snacks?
4. How long you have been looking for a job?
5. How did you find about our agency?
6. Why do you want to work here?
7. Do you mind if I smoke?

About your Résumé Questions:

1. Can you explain why you have been unemployed for some period of time?
2. Do you think you might have a tough time getting accustomed to another if you are employed?
3. What type of agency or company you would like to work with?
4. Why you have held few jobs in the past years?
5. Why you have held so many jobs in recent times?

About Work Style Questions:

1. Do you like working alone or in a team?

2. Tell me about your positive attributes?
3. What are some of your bad habits?
4. Is there anyone you just don’t get along with?
5. Do you like working large groups?
6. Do you work well under pressure?
7. Is there a specific type of person you work better with than others?
8. How do you react when something goes wrong with a project?
9. Are you organized?
10. Tell me about the way you work?
11. Are you detail-oriented?
12. How do you go about making important decisions?
13. How do you handle change?
14. How do you measure the success of your work?
15. How do you handle tension?
16. Are you able to meet aggressive deadlines? Do you have experience doing so in the past? Have
you ever been behind schedule?
17. Do you work well alone, or do you require direct supervision?
18. Do you think conflict can be avoided? Why or why not? In what situations?
19. If you could choose your fellow employees to work with you on this project, what qualities
would you seek?
20. How do you organize and plan for major projects?
21. What aspects of your work are often criticized?
22. Share an example of your diligence and perseverance.
23. Share an example of your determination.
24. Describe a time when you tackled a tough or unpopular work assignment.
25. What would your colleagues tell me about your attention to detail?
 26. Tell me about a time that you have had to extend a deadline.
27. How resourceful are you?
28. What is your most productive or ideal work setting?
29. Describe an environment that is ineffective for you.
30. Do you prefer continuity in structure or frequent change in your daily work?
31. Describe a time when you had to assist a co-worker.
32. Tell me about a time when you had to defend an idea to your manager.
33. Tell me about a problem that you failed to anticipate.

Career Goal Questions:

1. Where do you see yourself in five years? In ten years?

2. What are your work-related goals for the next few years?
3. Have you progressed on your career as you expected?
4. If you could start your carer again, what would you change?
5. What career goals do you bring to work?
6. Describe your ideal job.
7. What prompted you to choose your current career?
8. Would you ever consider starting your own company or business?
9. What motivated you to change careers at this time?
10. What do you expect your job title will be in five years?
11. Do you think you have made the right career choice?
12. If our agency or company hired you, what professional goals would you set for yourself?
13. What are your short-term objectives?
14. What are your long-term objectives?

About Work Experience Questions:

1. Describe your previous job experience.

2. Have you had any work experience directly related to this position?
3. Describe a time when you had to fire someone from his or her job? What did you say?
4. Tell me how you would handle multiple projects or multiple tasks.
5. What aspects of your job do you consider most crucial?
6. How can you help our agency or company be more productive?
7. Was there a time in your career that you have been unhappy? Why?

Questions about your Skills:

1. Describe professional skills you have developed in your job.

2. How have your technical skills been an asset?
3. How would you rate your communication skills?
4. What new skills or ideas do you bring to the job that other candidates aren’t likely to offer?
5. Describe your ability to solve problems in the workplace.
6. What would you do with problems you couldn’t solve?

Accomplishments questions:

1. Which of your accomplishments have brought you the greatest satisfaction?

2. What makes you unique and why should we hire you over any candidates?
 3. If I hired you today, what would you accomplish first?
4. Tell me about one of your projects or tasks that failed.

Education and Training Questions:

1. What was your course and major? Why did you choose it?
2. Did you put yourself through school?
3. Do you feel you were close to your college faculty and instructors?
4. Are your grades a true reflection of your abilities and success potential?

General Questions:

1. Why are you applying for this position?

2. Is there any type of work that you particularly do not like to do?
3. What are your strengths?
4. What are your weaknesses?
5. What do you like most about this kind of work?

Management Questions:

1. How do you deal with difficult people?

2. Do you feel you are the type of person who anticipates problems in the workplace?
3. What qualities would you want to have in a manager?

About the Agency/Company:

1. What do you know about our programs and services and TESDA as a whole?
2. Have you heard any rumors about our agency that concern you?
3. What attracted you to our agency to work in this kind of position?

Character Questions:

1. Is there anything you want to mention at this time not found in your resume?
2. Tell me something that anyone has complained about you in the past.
3. Have you ever had your mistakes pointed out to you on the job? How did you handle it?

Situation Questions:

1. Tell me about the most difficult setback you have ever faced on the job.
2. If you have an argument with your manager, what would you do?
3. Stand up right now and sell me the stapler on my desk.
4. If you had unlimited time and financial resources, how would you spend them?
5. What would you do if you have to fire a friend?
6. If you were faced by hostility from another employee, what would you do?
7. If your supervisor criticized you unfairly, what would you do?