Career: Most Common Job Interview Questions

As you prepare for your conversations, read each of this most common job interview questions and prepare a strong response to it.

Maybe in your conversation you will not get exactly the same questions, but you’ll probably get some that will be quite similar.

Practice your speaking skills in a successful job interview in several hours of mock interview.

Before you begin the process, identify the questions that you want your interviewer to lineup, but let him ask you some question of his own.

Common Job Interview Questions about Your personal qualities

1. What is your strongest side?
2. What are your greatest weaknesses?
3. How would your co-workers describe you?
4. What kind of people irritates you?
5. How do you navigate the conflicts?
6. Tell me about yourself.
7. What makes you unique?
8. What bothers you?
9. Were you born a leader or a follower?
10. What motivates you?
11. Are you better in written or oral communication?
12. Describe how you solved a complex social situation?
13. What are your hobbies and interests?
14. How much power do you have?
15. How did you learn of your disappointment?
16. You prefer doing it by yourself or with others?
17. Describe your personality.
18. What bothers you? Why? How to avoid it?
19. What public figure do you admire? Why?
20. What do you want from life?

Common Job Interview Questions about Your education

1. How did you go through in high school? Popular and hated subjects, teachers?
2. Sports, activities, responsibilities?
3. Why did you choose your course?
4. Did you enjoy studying? Why yes / no?
5. In what extracurricular activities you participated in? Were they worth the effort?
6. How much of the tuition was paid by you? How?
7. Did you work while you are educated? What? Has it helped or harmed your grades?
8. How was your academic background prepared for this job / this organization?
9. If you are able to educate over, what would you change? Why?
10. Were you able to have better success in school? How? Why did not you?
11. What professional training did you complete after regular schooling?
12. What are your plans for the future of education? What have you done on this issue?

Common Job Interview Questions about Your Career

1. Explain your current career.
2. What was your first job? What did you learn from it? (The same question for each subsequent post.)
3. Who was your favorite boss? Why?
4. Who was your worst boss? Why?
5. What part of your training prepared you the most for the job? How?
6. What obstacles you have had to overcome in order to succeed?
7. Where do you see yourself in 3, 5 and 10 years?
8. Explain how get along with teamwork.
9. Do the people in your business should be paid better?
10. What are your financial goals? Are you on the path to achieving them?
11. What are different ways in which you treat subordinates and superiors?
12. How did you resolve a disagreement with the boss? With a colleague?
13. Have you ever been fired? Why?
14. Have you ever fired anyone? Why?
15. Show me a good example of teamwork from your CV.
16. Show me a good example of your work ethic and initiative of your CV.
17. Have you ever had employees that do not appear on your CV?
18. What are your biggest accomplishments?
19. Tell me about a big mistake you made at work.
20. What kind of people you do not want to work with?
21. How long do you want to work?
22. What are the worse sides of your chosen profession?
23. Do you prefer a small or large company?
24. Will you go where your company sends you?
25. When you look back on your career, what would you do differently?
26. In which direction do you think your career to go?

Common Job Interview Questions about this Employment

1. How did you hear about this vacancy?
2. Why should we hire you?
3. What do you posses, and others do not?
4. Why do you want to leave your current job / company?
5. What is your current salary? How much you want to earn?
6. What are you looking for from the next job?
7. Evaluate your current boss.
8. What do you like the most in your current job?
9. When was the last time you were promoted?
10. Compare this work and others for which you applied.
11. Give me some things about which you differed in opinion with your boss?
12. What appeals to you the most about this job?
13. How has your current job prepared you for this?
14. How does this job fit into your overall career plans?
15. What makes you think you can succeed in this job?
16. What are your short-term goals?
17. In what organizations you are going on a job interview?
18. Which aspects of this job the most excites you?
19. How would you reshape this position that best suits your skills?
20. Can I check your references?
21. When you start work?
22. Will you accept this job if we provide it to you?
23. Will you stay with your current employer if you counteroffer?
24. What is your plan for the transition to a job that you leave?
25. What would your current boss say / do when you tell him you leave?

Common Job Interview Questions about Company where You apply

1. What do you know about our company?
2. What attracts you to our organization?
3. What is our reputation in the market?
4. What did you learn about our corporate culture?
5. Why do you think this company will be better than the previous one?
6. Do you know someone who works for us?
7. How familiar you are with our products or services?
8. What do you specifically bring to our company, and that it needs?
9. Have you read our annual report?
10. How much have you studied about our organization?
11. Have you read any articles in the press about us?
12. Can you see yourself spending the rest of your career with us?

General Job Interview Questions

1. What is most important to you?
2. Are you interested in sports? Art?
3. Do you do charity work? Are you active in your community?
4. What did your parents do? Which of the parents had the biggest influence on you?
5. Do you have any brothers or sisters?
6. Were you in the army?
7. Who are your best friends?
8. What’s the best thing about you that I have not learned yet?
9. How are you preparing for retirement?
10. Are you nervous?
11. Will you submit to a drug test as a condition of employment?
12. Do you have any questions?