EDUCATION
• What special aspects of your education or training have prepared you for this job?
• What courses in school have been of most help in doing your job?
CAREER- GOALS
• What is your long-term employment or career objective?
• What kind of job do you see yourself holding five years from now?
• What do you feel you need to develop in terms of skill & knowledge in order to be ready for
that opportunity
• How does this job fit in with your overall career goals?
• Who or what in your life would you say influenced you most with your career objectives?
• Can you pinpoint any specific things in your past experience that affected your present
career objectives?
• What would you most like to accomplish if you had this job?
• What might make you leave this job?
SELF-ASSESSMENT
• What kind of things do you feel most confident in doing?
• Can you describe for me a difficult obstacle you have had to overcome? How did you
handle it? How do you feel this experience affected your personality or ability?
• How would you describe yourself as a person?
• What do you think are the most important characteristics & abilities a person must possess
to become a successful ( )? How do you rate yourself in these areas?
• Do you consider yourself a self-starter? If so, explain why ( and give examples)
• What do you consider to be your greatest achievements to date? Why?
• What things give you the greatest satisfaction at work?
• What things frustrate you the most? How do you usually cope with them?
CREATIVITY
• In your work experience, what have you done that you consider truly creative?
• Can you think of a problem you have encountered when the old solutions didn't work &
when you came up with new solutions?
• Of your creative accomplishments big or small , at work or home, what gave you the most
satisfaction?
• What kind of problems have people recently called on you to solve?
• Tell me what you have devised.