Questions to Consider Asking Prospective Employees

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
ASKING PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES

• How did you get your last job?
• What were your specific responsibilities?
• What did you like about the job?
• What did you dislike about the job?
• What did you learn from the job?
• Did you run into any difficult situations? How did you handle them?
• Tell me about the types of interaction you had with other workers.
• Tell me of an accomplishment you are particularly proud of and what you did.
• What kind of supervision of other workers have you had?
• Do you have persons from your former job who would provide a professional reference?
• Why did you leave your past jobs?
• Why do you want to leave your current job?
• What is the compensation at your current job? What is your salary expectation for this position?
• Describe a typical day in your current job.

• What would be your specific goals for this job?
• What experience do you have that you think will be helpful for this job?
• This job will require a lot of [describe]. Will that be a problem for you?
• This job will require interacting with [describe the types of people]. What experience do you have working with such people?
• What would you like to get from this new job?
• One requirement of this job is writing various types of reports - e.g., weekly, monthly, projections, goals, employee evaluation, etc. What relevant experience have you had on your previous job? Do you have any writing samples you could provide us with?
• This job will require a certain amount of new client development. Have you had much experience? Tell me how you have gone about this?

• What subjects did you do well in school?
• What was you major?
• Where did you attend high school, college or post-graduate school?
• Did you work at an outside job while going to school? Describe the job.
• Are you interested in continuing your education?
• Did you have any....