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Job interview sample questions!

This is a compilation of job interview sample questions. Choose the right team to ensure the best results. People that are a fit for your team are more likely to reach their potential. Using these questions will help you see beyond the CV. They are great for a behavior based interview assessment.

Choose questions appropriate to the demands of the job.

Job interview sample questions: Service.

• Give an example of how you handle an aggressive customer.
• Share some examples of customer service situations you believe you handled extremely well.
• Give two or three examples where customers have called or written in to give positive feedback on your customer service.
• Give an example of a challenging experience you handled well; perhaps when you were sick and felt miserable, and you had several people trying to talk to you at the same time.



Job interview sample questions: Ability to accomplish projects.

Give an example of:
• A case where you faced a major challenge and performed well..
• A goal that took a long time to achieve.
• What is your greatest business accomplishment?
• What is your greatest personal accomplishment?
• How do you measure your results?
• How do you know you have done your job successfully?
• Describe a time in which you over delivered at work.



Job interview sample questions: Ability to be creative and solve problems.

• Share an experience where you had to solve a complex problem quickly.
• Tell us about a time when you failed to solve a problem.
• What mistakes did you make?
• What would you do differently?
• Has there been an occasion where you had the foresight to see a potential problem and take steps to prevent it?
• Tell me about a situation that was significantly improved as a result of your contribution.
• Are you particularly proud of the creative way you solved a certain problem?
• Share an example of where you needed to bring out other people's creativity.
• What do you do when your team gets stuck?



Job interview sample questions: Communication and listening.

• What is your natural communication style?
• If you had to present the same proposal, how would you present differently to accountants, young people and entrepreneurs? Give examples.
• Give us an example how you sold a complex concept or an unfamiliar product to someone.
• What does it take for you to be persuasive?
• Tell us about a time where a communication weakness got in your way.
• When team members are having work or personal problems, how do you handle it?
• What ways to ensure you listen to someone?
• What is your greatest challenge when you must listen to someone.



Job interview sample questions: Team work ability.

• Can you tell us about a time when there was conflict in a team and you were able to maintain relationships and work towards an outcome?
• Give us an example of a time where you were directly involved in a conflict.
• Give an example of a situation you wish you had handled differently.
• Give an example of a situation where you were able to motivate and assist a team member to accomplish something he or she was struggling with.
• What do you do if someone has an extreme value position that offends you?
• Give an example where a team you worked with were angry and resentful.
• How did you handle the situation?

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Job interview sample questions: The strive for excellence.

• Share a time where you did something that was recognized by others.
• What did you do that contributed towards the success?
• Share a project that you believe did not fully achieve its objective.
• What was your role in the process and to what extent were you responsible for the fact that it did not make it all the way?
• How many of your life goals have you achieved?
• Can you share some of the important ones?
• Can you share some of the ones that you still intend to accomplish?
• What represents excellence to you?
• Under what circumstances have you achieved excellence and under what circumstances have you done something you know is mediocre.
• How often do you aim too high.
• And are there times when you sell yourself short by aiming too low? Give examples.
• How often do you set goals that are too high or low. Give an example.



Job interview sample questions: Values and priorities.

• What are the five most important things in your life and how do you prioritize them?
• Have you ever been in a situation where two priorities were competing for time and money.
• Give an example of where you lost sight of what is really important to you.
• Tell me about a time when you were handling a complicated situation and a rude customer called to complain. What did you do?



Job interview sample questions: Leadership.

• Has there been a time where you were able to step into a crisis and get the situation sorted out.
• Tell us about a positive outcome that wouldn't have been achieved without you.
• Share an example of giving difficult feedback to a team member.
• Tell me about a time when you had to fire someone close to you or where you had to fire someone vulnerable.
• Share examples of how you have trained and mentored others into a leadership position.
• What makes you a leader?
• Tell us of an occasion when you used these traits effectively.
• Share a situation where you made a decision that was unpopular.



Job interview sample questions: Delegation.

• How did you handle your job before you learned to delegate.
• Give an example of a time when you didn't do very well at delegating?
• Tell me about a time when you handled a project well and delegation was key.
• Give an example where you had to delegate a complex set of tasks to someone.



Job interview sample questions: The ability to handle stress.

• Describe a situation where many changes happened in a short space of time. How did you adapt? What were your responses?
• Give an example of how you have worked effectively under stress?
• Give an example of an important project that was not completed on deadline.
• Share a time where a project that you were greatly invested in was dropped because of changes outside your control.
• What do you when you are at your stress threshold?

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Job interview sample questions: Decision making.

• Describe a time when you needed to make an important decision in a short space of time, with little information.
• Give an example of a situation where you made a poor decision.
• Share a time when you have not been able to make a decision.



Job interview sample questions: Awareness.

• Describe a situation which you now feel you managed badly.
• What would you do differently?
• What have you done to change things?
• What would irritate other team members about you?
• Can you remember a time when your judgment was poor?
• What is the one life decision that you wish you could change?

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