Example Interview Questions

What type of role are you looking for?

Why are you interested in working for us?

Talk me through your current responsibilities?

Whats your biggest achievement?

Why are you looking to leave your current employer?

Why do you think you're relevant for our vacancy?

What aspect of our vacancy most/least attracts you?

Which aspects of your current job do you enjoy most/least?

What key issues do you think our industry is facing?

What are your greatest strengths?

What are your greatest weaknesses? A popular response is to use an old weakness that you've improved on, or wishing you were even stronger in a particular aspect without indicating any real weakness.

When working in a team do you typically assume a particular role and what is that?

How do you organise your week/day?

Give me an example of a particularly challenging project and how you overcame the key problems?

How would you describe the work environment of your current employer?Tell me a little about yourself.

Why did you leave [company X]?

(Later in the interview) How does our vacancy compare with others you've applied for recently?

What do you want to be doing in 5 years' time?

How would others describe you? This could be friends, colleagues, your boss and one interviewer even asked "how would your enemies describe you?"

What are your interests outside of work?

What is your current salary? What are you looking for financially? Some recommend you avoid these money questions if you can, we suggest honesty in terms of the current package. Don't forget to include substantial benefits. Only if pertinent, you could state that you are expecting an increase of a certain amount so that they can bear this in mind for future negotiations. If you have to quote what you are looking for financially, we've found that using target figures rather than "I won't accept less than ..." to be more acceptable. Move on from the money question as soon as you can.

What other positions/companies have you applied to?