Interview Questions

[tabitha04]

For those that have had a lot of interviews, what are some of the most common questions that I should be prepared to answer?

[wordsmith]

The extremely common ones I've gotten:

-"What made you want to apply for this position?" (particularly likely if you're switching fields, or if there's no obvious correlation to your academic or professional background and the job)

-"Where do you see yourself __years in the future/what are your long-term goals?" (always a tough one for me, and prone to BS answers, because I don't really DO long-term goals, at least, not professional ones).

-"What's important to you in a supervisor/workplace atmosphere?"

[TinyDancer]

There are TONS of resources online for this. . . behavioral interview questions are especially popular because they are most telling. . . do a search for behavioral interview questions", and you will find a ton of sites with example questions. . .

My advice is. . . Think about all the activities, classes, group projects, and jobs you've ever had. Write them all down. Draw off these for your answers. You can also think of some significant things that happened during each of the activities/classes/jobs.

Question that I heard the most:

"Tell me about a time you had to work in a group, and you struggled to meet your goals (or one person in the group wasn't pulling their weight). . . "