1) Tell me about yourself (limit your answer to two minutes).
2) What interests you about this position?
3) What motivates you?
4) What is your work style?
5) Do you prefer to work in a team setting, or alone?
6) How have your educational and work experiences prepared you for this position?
7) Where do you see yourself in five years?
8) What goals have you set for yourself? How are you planning to achieve them?
9) What makes you think you can handle this position?
10) What is your most significant accomplishment to date?
11) Why do you want to work here? (This is where your research helps out!)
12) In a particular leadership role you had, what was your greatest challenge?
13) Give me an example of an idea that has come to you and what you did with it.
14) Give me an example of a problem you solved and the process you used.
15) Give me an example of the most creative project that you have worked on.
16) Tell me about your most difficult decision and how you arrived at it.
17) What types of situations put you under pressure, and how do you deal with pressure?
18) Give me a situation in which you failed, and how you handled it.
19) How would your colleagues describe you?
20) How would your boss describe you?
21) How would you describe yourself?
22) What do you think of your present or past boss?
23) What are your strengths?
24) What are your weaknesses?
25) Of what accomplishment are you most proud?
26) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?