Sample Interview Questions

1. What are your main duties/activities?
2. What tools and equipment do you use in your work?
3. How do you go about finding information? (reports, memos, books, Internet)
4. What type of writing do you do? (reports, memos, fax, forms)
5. Do you use or produce diagrams, drawings, maps, graphs, or blueprints in
   your work? For what purpose?
6. Do you do any public speaking or training in your work? Are you involved in interviewing or negotiating?
7. How many people do you work with the majority of the time?
8. What is your most common form of contact with others?
   (personal contact, memo, fax, e-mail, telephone)
9. What type of supervision do you receive? How often?
10. How many people do you supervise?
11. Are you responsible for the safety of others? In what way?
12. To what extent do routines and procedures have to be followed and deadlines met?
13. What planning or organizing do you have to do? (predetermined/self-directed)
14. How are decisions made in your company?
15. How are changes implemented in your company?
16. Do you use computers in your work? How do you use them and for what purpose?
17. What mathematical calculations do you have to do in your work?
    (money, measurement, budgeting, scheduling, accounting, data analysis, estimation, calculation)
18. What aspects of your work, if any, require you to “be accurate on the first attempt?”
19. What would be the consequence of “not getting it right the first time?”
20. What aspects of your job require physical effort? (carrying/pushing/pulling)
21. What is the most common problem that you face in your daily work? How do you solve it?
22. What are your prospects for future growth and development with this company?
23. What is the most valuable skill a new employee could bring to your position?
24. What prior experience is required for your work?
25. What are the educational qualifications for this job?
    
26. How does this company advertise job openings?
27. Why would a person leave this company?
28. What do you like most about your job?
29. Which high school classes have been most helpful?
30. Knowing what you know now, what do you wish you had learned more about while you were in high school?
31. What would you tell a high school student about the workplace?
32. Is there any additional information that you would like to tell us?