Sample Job Interview Questions

1. Why XYZ Company?
2. What is your leadership style?
3. How did your leadership style enable you to get the results that you wanted?
4. What makes you different from your competitors?  Why should we hire you?
5. Tell me about a time where you took initiative?
6. What have you done over the past year and over your summer that would make you successful with us?
7. Walk me through your resume - how does your experience work well with us?
8. Tell me about a difficult problem that you had to solve.

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9. What are some of your previous leadership positions?
10. What are your long term goals?
11. What is not on your resume?
12. Tell me about yourself.
13. How well do you work in a team?
14. What is your most significant accomplishment to date?
15. Why do we fit in with your career goals?
16. Explain a time when you did not get along with someone in your group.  What did you do to move forward?
17. Tell me about a time when you had to face an ethical situation at your job.
18. Give an example of a long term complicated project and the final results.
19. Tell me about a time you had to convince someone to do something they did not want to do.
20. Tell me about a successful team and what you contributed to the success of that team.
21. How did you research our company?
22. Tell me about a time you achieved something that you had never been able to do before.
23. Tell me about a time when you had to go up the chain of command with an issue.
24. How would your coworkers describe you?  How would your friend describe you?  How would previous employers describe you?
25. Describe a time when you had to affect change without being in a decision making role.