1. What motivates you to put forth your greatest effort?
2. Describe your “dream” job.
3. What is the most important feature to you in a job?
4. Please rank the following from most important to least: job duties, hours, distance from work, pay, work environment.
5. What has been your greatest accomplishment in a work environment and why?
6. How important are external deadlines in motivating you?
7. How do you feel about your present workload?
8. Give me an example of a situation where you had to go above and beyond the call of duty to get something done.
9. What do you do when things are slow at work?
10. What have you learned from your mistakes?
11. What two or three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction? Why?
12. How can we best reward you for doing a good job?
13. Why do you think you’ll be successful in this job?
14. What makes you proud of your work?
15. Tell me about a time when you went “out on a limb” in a job.
16. How do you like to be managed?
17. What kind of supervisor is likely to get the best performance out of you?
18. How important is it for you to learn new skills?
19. What new skills would you like to learn?
20. Do you consider yourself successful?
21. What are the most important rewards you expect out of your career?
22. What is more important to you: the salary or the challenge?
23. What do you think determines a person’s success in a firm?
24. Tell me about a project that really got you excited.
25. Do you generally cleat your desk at the end of each day?