Going behind the obvious ... thought provoking questions
  1. Influencing Others
    • Describe your most disappointing and frustrating experience in gaining the support of others for an idea or proposal.
  2. Interpersonal Skills
    • Tell me about the last time you had a disagreement or clash with someone at work.
    • Tell me about the most difficult or frustrating person with whom you have worked.
    • What are your pet peeves?
  1. Personal Adaptability
    • Tell me about the last time you were criticized by a supervisor/professor.
    • Tell me about a time when you felt most pressured and stressed in your work.
  2. Communication Skills
    • Tell me about a time when you had to work your hardest in order to fully understand what another person was saying to you.
  3. Motivation
    • Describe a time when you were most frustrated or discouraged in reaching your objectives or goals.
    • What do you feel has been your most significant work related accomplishment within the past year or so?
    • Have you helped increase sales? How?
  4. Skills
    • Tell me how you go about organizing your work and scheduling your own time.
    • Describe the most extensive planning that you have done.
  5. Problem solving and decision making
    • Tell me about a most difficult problem or decision which you faced in your work.
  6. Conflict Management Skills
    • Tell me about the last significant crisis situation you faced in your work.
    • Tell me about a time when you were most persuasive in overcoming resistance to your ideas.