Interviewer Questions - Company

Questions that the company may ask in an Interview:

  • What kind of supervisor do you work best for? Provide examples.
  • What two or three things are most important to you in your job?
  • Recall a time from your work experience when your manager or supervisor was unavailable and a problem arose. What was the nature of the problem? How did you handle that situation? How did that make you feel?
  • Give an example of a time in which you had to be relatively quick in coming to a decision.
  • Tell of the most difficult customer service experience that you have ever had to handle -- perhaps an angry or irate customer. Be specific and tell what you did and what was the outcome.
  • What, in your opinion, are the key ingredients in guiding and maintaining successful business relationships?
  • What are the most important rewards you expect to gain from your career?
  • Tell of a time when your active listening skills really paid off for you -- maybe a time when other people missed the key idea being expressed.
  • What sorts of things have you done to become better qualified for your career?
  • What level of compensation would it take to make you happy?

Interviewee Questions - Canidate

Questions that you should considering asking your future employer:

  • What is the department head's leadership style? How often would we interact?
  • Could you describe a typical day or week in this position? The typical client or customer I would be dealing with? The expectations To determine how and when you will evaluated, Payne recommend advises asking:
  • What are the main challenges associated with the team?
  • What is the company's management style?
  • What would you consider to be the most important aspects of this job?
  • How would you describe your organization's personality and management style?
  • What makes your firm, hospital, school system, ad agency, etc., different?
  • Would you like to hear what I could do to really help your department?
  • Describe typical first year assignments on the job.
  • What would I go to work on first, and what would my function be?