HR QUESTIONS

1. Hello, how are you today?

2. Tell me about yourself.
3. What is your PF number?
4. Where is your company located?
5. Who is your lead and Manager?
6. What is your official email address?
7. What are your current salary and the expected salary?
8. What is your notice period?
9. Can you join in 15 days?
10. Is notice period buyout?
11. How many employees are there in your company?
12. How many branches you have in India?
13. Is it MNC?
14. Is your company a product company or service company?
15. Is your Job permanent or contract job?
16. Why do you want to leave your current employer?
17. What makes you interested in this job though it is a small company?
18. How did you manage to attend this interview during your working hours?
19. Is it Okay to work in evening shift or night shift?
20. You seem to be working with the same company for a long time-Why?
21. Why do you want to change your company?
22. What did you do to improve your knowledge in the last year?
23. How quickly do you adapt to new technology?
24. What are your biggest achievements till date?
25. How do you work under pressure? Can you handle the pressure?
26. Where do you live? It is very far from the office. Do you need pick and drop?
27. Are you willing to relocate or travel?
28. What do you know about our company?
29. Where do you want to see yourself in the next 2 years?
30. Explain how would be an asset to our organization if hired?
31. Do you any questions for me?
32. How many hours do you work a week?
33. Tell me the challenges you have faced during the work?

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34. Describe who you are? or Tell me about your background.
35. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

36. You have not done your PG yet. This is not a drawback, but don’t you think you should get a PG degree
asap?
37. You have changed jobs/jumped ship too many times already, why so?
38. What are your strong points? or What are your strengths?
39. What is your greatest fear?
40. If I call up your current or previous reporting manager now, what will be their opinion about you? What will
they say that you need to work on?
41. Do you have any serious medical issues?
42. Did you ever have a conflict with your current/previous boss or professor?
43. What does your friends/co-workers say about you?
44. What did you do in the last year to improve your knowledge?
45. Explain the difference between group and team. Are you a team player?
46. What is your ideal company or workplace?
47. Have you ever had to fire anyone? How did you feel about that?

48. What is the most difficult thing that you’ve ever accomplished? or What is the most difficult thing you have
ever done?
49. What is the difference between hard work and smart work?
50. How do you feel about working weekends and night shifts?
51. Where do you see yourself 3 years from now? or Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
52. Give an example of a time you had to respond to an unhappy manager/ customer/ colleague/ professor/
friend.
53. How quickly do you adapt to new technology?
54. What software packages are you familiar with?
55. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate yourself as a leader?
56. What makes you angry?
57. Are you open to take risks? or Do you like experimenting?
58. What are your future goals? Tell me about your short term and long-term goals.
59. What motivates you?
60. What are your hobbies? or What are you passionate about?

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61. What are your biggest achievements till date?
62. What are you most proud of?
63. What has been your greatest failure?
64. What do you always regret? or Do you have any regrets?
65. How do you respond to change?
66. Are you demanding as a boss?
67. Are you an organized person?
68. Can you describe your time management skills?

69. What’s your absenteeism record like?

70. Are you reliable? or Can I trust you with responsibilities?
71. What are the three things that are most important for you in a job?
72. What was the toughest decision you ever had to make?
73. If you won a Rs.10-crore lottery, would you still work?
74. Give me an example of your creativity.
75. What makes you happy?
76. How do you work under pressure? Can you handle the pressure?
77. Are you willing to relocate or travel?
78. What do you know about us or our company?
79. How long do you think you will work for us after we hire you?
80. Are you applying for other jobs? Do you have any other offer in hand?
81. Why do you want to work for us or our company? or Why do you want this job?
82. Do you know anyone who works for us?
83. Why should we hire you? or Why should I hire you?
84. What are your salary expectations?
85. Do you have a good work ethic?
86. How do you deal with feedback and criticism?
87. Why do you want to leave your current job?
88. Your interview is more or less coming to an end when the interviewer asks you, “Do you have any questions
for me?”

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1. Tell me something about yourself
Employers view Pointers to be added

How do you market yourself? Name and location

How do you express yourself? Highest qualification
How you can be the asset of the Professional certificate, Internship programs,
organization? achievements
Your overall personality 2 skills which will match the job requirement

How can you be the asset of the organization

2. Tell me something about family background

Employers view Pointers to be added

Overall economic background Talk about family members

If there is any Business background Talk about occupation of family members

Culture and overall personality of a The learning from the family

candidate from family background

3. Tell me something which is not there in the CV?

Employers view Pointers to be added

How do you talk about your strengths? Talk about your personality
How do you talk about Talk about your family background, others
your personality? achievements
Can you talk about your achievements other Add your overall extra activities which can
than academics? add value

4. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Employers view Pointers to be added

Whether you know your strength and how Talk about 2 strengths and explain by adding
do you demonstrate? relevant examples
How did you develop your strength? Match your strength with job description

How do you admit your weakness? Talk about your action on eliminating your
weakness

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5. Where will you see yourself after 5 years?
Employers view Pointers to be added

Do you have a long term vision? Talk about realistic designation

Do you have any career goal? Talk about plan of action
How do you plan to accomplish? Give the steps of accomplishments

6. What are your short term and long term goals?

Employers view Pointers to be added

How do you plan your life? Explain your short term and long term
goals?
What are the short term and long term Explain the steps and plan of action to
career goals? achieve goals
How serious are you with career goals?

7. What are the 3 qualities on the basis of which we should hire you?
Employers view Pointers to be added

How do you demonstrate your skills? Explain 3 qualities confidently with

example
Can you explain your skills with It is an opportunity to prove you as a
confidence? different personality
How do you sell yourself?

8. Tell me a situation where you have taken a tough decision?

Employers view Pointers to be added

Are you an action oriented person?
How do you handle pressure?
How do you take decisions under
pressure?
Explain a situation, where you have
handled a tough situation
Explain your management skills i.e.
problem solving, critical thinking skills

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9. What are your hobbies?
Employers view Pointers to be added

Can you think apart from career? Try to tell your serious hobbies in detail
Do you have some serious hobbies? Try to differentiate pass time and hobbies

Can you reflect some skills out of that? Share all information about your hobbies

10. Tell me something about your hometown?

Employers view Pointers to be added

Your general knowledge about your Share some geographical knowledge

location. about your location
Your opinion about your location Famous food, area, famous things, people
can be added to explain

11. What are your salary expectations?

Employers view Pointers to be added

Market analysis and salary expectations Be ready and clear with your salary
expectations
How do you demand your salary Show your eagerness of learning
expectations? instead of salary
How do you negotiate your salary? Negotiate your salary if required and explain
the reason

12. Are you ready to travel in any locations?

Employers view Pointers to be added

If you can demonstrate flexibility and Be ready with your answer and explain how
malleability can you add value
Are you ready to accept challenges and Share your experience if you have
work for the organization? already travelled in the past

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13. Have you ever been in a pressure situation and how did you handle?
Employers view Pointers to be added

Have you taken risk in your life and handled Share your experience and mention the
a situation? decisions you have taken
How are you ready for such difficult Talk about the mechanism you created to
situations? handle difficult situations

14. What are your achievements in your life?

Employers view Pointers to be added

How have you designed your life? Share your achievements and
experience with confidence
How did you look at your career? Talk about your learning and outcome
What actions helped you to become a
successful person?

15. What are your mistakes in life?

Employers view Pointers to be added

Whether you admit your mistakes? Try talking about decisions which you have
taken and somehow didn’t work
What are the learning’s you have received Talk about learning and actions taken after
from that? that

16. Who is your role model? Why?

Employers view Pointers to be added

Your perspective towards people Talk about your ideal personalities which
you admire
How do you admire people and parameters Talk about qualities of these role model
to follow them?

17. Do you like reading? What type of reading you would like to read?
Employers view Pointers to be added

How do you gather knowledge? Talk about the type of reading and books
you have read
What type of reading habits you have Add your favorite author, books and value
installed? which you get from books

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18. Give me an example that supports you being adaptive?
Employers view Pointers to be added

How do you demonstrate your skills? Give relevant example which supports you
being adaptive
How do you adopt to situations? Know the importance of demonstrating
your experience and showcase your skills

How can you be the right fit for an

organization?

19. How do you balance your work life balance?

Employers view Pointers to be added

Your management skills Share the importance of work life balance

Importance of personal and professional Your plan of action on work life balance
life
Check of your time management skills

20. If you get a chance in future to get another big opportunity than what will be your decision?
Employers view Pointers to be added

How do you demonstrate your conviction Stick your answer and be specific about
and seriousness towards the recruitment? how can you be the asset of the
organization.
Can you manage your goals with
organizational vision?

21. What do you know about our organization?

Employers view Pointers to be added

Your readiness towards the organization Talk about product, services, vision, mission
and values of the company
What did you research about the Search CEO message and future goals of the
company? company

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 List of situational Interview questions

Time management
1. Tell me about a goal you set and reached and how you achieved it.
2. Tell me about the last time your workday ended before you were able to get everything done.
3. Give me an example of a time you had to prioritize certain tasks or projects over others.
4. Give me an example of a time when you had to handle multiple responsibilities at once. How did you prioritize your time?
5. Tell me about the last time you handled a long-term project. How did you keep the project on track?

Adaptability
1. Can you share about a time you had to be flexible or adaptable?
2. Tell me about a time when you had to be creative to solve a problem.
3. Tell me about a time you had to learn quickly.
4. Tell me about a time you made a difficult decision.
5. Tell me about how you work under pressure.

Overcoming challenges
1. Tell me about a time when you handled a challenging situation.
2. Tell me about a time when you made a mistake. What did you do to correct it?
3. Give me an example of a time you made a decision that was unpopular and explain how you handled implementing it.
4. Tell me about a goal you failed to achieve.
5. Tell me about a time you felt you went above and beyond.

Motivation and values

1. Give me an example of how you set goals.
2. Tell me about the proudest moment in your professional career why it was meaningful to you.
3. Can you give me an example of a time when you felt dissatisfied with your work?
4. Tell me about a body of work you felt was most impactful for you or your company.
5. How do you stay motivated when a job requires you to perform repetitive tasks?

Communication
1. Tell me about a time when you had to say “no.”
2. Give me an example of a time when you persuaded someone. How’d you do it and why?
3. Talk about a time when you’ve had to manage up.
4. Tell me about a time when you had to explain a complex topic to people with less subject knowledge. How did you make
sure everyone could understand you?
5. Tell me about a time you had to build rapport with a coworker or client whose personality was different than yours?

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Teamwork
1. Tell me about a time when you collaborated with others who were different than you.
2. Tell me about the best presentation you’ve given. Why was it good?
3. Tell me about a time when you felt like a good leader.
4. Can you give me an example of how you’ve contributed to the culture of previous teams, companies or groups?
5. Share an example of how you were able to motivate a coworker, your peers or your team.

Conflict resolution
1. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a supervisor.
2. Tell me about a time you had to stand up for your beliefs.
3. Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your manager’s leadership style or team culture.
4. Tell me about a time when you were in conflict with a peer and how the situation was resolved.
5. Tell me about a time you wish you’d handled a situation with a coworker differently.

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