Job Interview Questions

• Describe your current job for me. What are your major responsibilities?
  
• What was the most/least challenging part of the job?
  
• What did you like/dislike about the job?
  
• What did you do particularly well in that job?
  
• What duties did you find the most troublesome?
  
• What was the greatest disappointment in your last job?
  
• What was your most meaningful job, whether paid-time, full-time, summer or volunteer? What was special about that job?
  
• What are you looking for in a job that you do not have in your current job?
  
• What are your career goals? What would you like to be doing in two years?
  
• If you could create an ideal job, what responsibilities and working atmosphere would you like to have?
  
• What do you consider to be your outstanding job-related personal strengths?
  
• What are some of your weaknesses, things you're still working on?
  
• What outstanding traits or talents do you feel you bring to the position for which you are applying?
  
• What brought you to U.S. Bank?
  
• Describe the most difficult boss or co-worker you have ever worked with, and tell me how you coped with the situation.
  
• What kind of people do you find it difficult to work with?
  
• What was the most frustrating thing about your last job?
  
• Describe the most difficult problem on your last job, and tell me how you overcame it.
  
• How do you think your boss or a co-worker would evaluate your current job performance?
• Describe pressure situations which you feel you have handled well.
  
• Describe your experience working with money.
  
• Describe me how you handle rude, difficult or impatient customers. Give me an example.
  
• What courses have you taken in school that give you special qualifications for this position.
  
• Are you interested in continuing your education?
  
• What job responsibilities would you like to avoid on a new job?
  
• Would you prefer routine or creative work? Why?
  
• Tell me what you're looking for in a new job.
  
• What are some of your reasons for considering other employment?
  
• Tell me why you left your last job.
  
• What do you think has contributed most to your success so far?
  
• Tell me about a time you used your spoken communication skills to get a point across.
  
• What has been the most difficult decision you've had to make in the last 3 years?
  
• Give me an example of an important goal you have set and tell me how you reached it.
  
• Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond the call of duty.
  
• Tell me about a situation on your last job that you did not handle as well as you might have.
  
• Tell me about a situation when miscommunication created a problem on the job.
  
• How do you usually plan your day?
  
• Think of a particularly hectic day. How did you handle it?
  
• What kind of projects using typing/word processing skills have you done?
  
• Describe your experience handling telephones.
  
• Describe your experience working with numbers.
  
• Describe past job duties that have required accuracy and attention to detail.
  
• Are you willing to travel, work overtime?
  
• Do you have any geographic limitations?
  
• What is the most creative thing you did on your last job?
  
• Tell me about a time you had to make a quick decision.
  
• Tell me about a time you had a problem with decisiveness.
  
• Tell me about a situation that you just couldn't handle.
  
• Tell me about something in your last job that you're not proud of.
  
• Tell me about a time when you felt it might be justifiable to break company procedure.
  
  

Webmaster, 2013