In a job interview, employers often ask a variety of questions to assess a candidates qualifications, personality, and fit for the role and the company. Common job interview questions include:
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About You:
- Tell me about yourself.
- What are your strengths?
- What are your weaknesses?
- What are your salary expectations?
- Where would you like to be in your career five years from now?
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Interest in the Company and Role:
- Why are you interested in working for this company?
- Why do you want to work at this company?
- Why do you want this job?
- What can you bring to the company?
- What makes you unique?
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Experience and Skills:
- Describe your best/worst boss.
- What is your greatest professional achievement?
- Tell me about a challenge or conflict you’ve faced at work, and how you dealt with it.
- Tell me about a time you demonstrated leadership skills.
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Behavioral and Situational:
- How do you handle working with people who annoy you?
- What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?
- What would your first few months look like in this role?
- What would you do if you disagreed with a decision made at work?
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Other:
- How did you hear about this position?
- What other companies are you interviewing with?
- When can you start?
- What do you think we could do better or differently?
Its important for candidates to prepare answers to these questions and also have some questions in mind to ask the interviewer at the end of the interview.
