What are your favorite interviewing questions?

megs68 · July 2011

We're doing a lot of interviewing and I want to refresh my list of standard questions. What are your favorite questions (obviously non-industry specific) to ask candidates?

JQuin10 · July 2011

An ice breaker! Name 5 people you would most like to meet!

If you had a million dollars how would you spend it?

I like the not-so-cliche questions to get the candidate on their feet! I like to see how fast people can respond to an off the wall topic!

mylittlesunshine · July 2011

What would be your idea of success with working for _____ company?

If you choose to discuss, what has been your most difficult life experience?

When do you feel frustrated or overwhelmed? How do you handle those situations.

celiabwatson · July 2011

I really don't like the generic "what's your biggest weakness?" type questions.

I do like specific scenarios, "what would you do if...?", especially if you're able to make it specific to your business, like one I had the other day "Our school's data shows that we're struggling to meet the needs of black and hispanic children. What experience do you have in this area and give specific ways you would work with these children."

groovygrl · July 2011

I like the scenarios also.

Depending on your field, I also like questions about how clients/students/coworkers/etc would describe you? You can do it open ended or (again depending on your field & things you look for) you can give a couple options. For example I work in education and we were recently using the question- would students describe you as tough or understanding?

obviously they are not antonyms and a lot of people might say 'both' but some will choose one or the other & with an explanation you can get some interesting info.

I don't miss my days of supervising & doing a lot of interviewing. Ugh.

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