AGP- Interview Skills Handout Sample Interview Questions

Personal Questions 1. Tell me about yourself? 2. How would you describe your own personality? 3. Can you describe yourself using five one-word adjectives? 4. How do you handle rejection? 5. Who or what had the greatest influence on your life? 6. What are some of the greatest personal challenges you have faced during your lifetime? 7. What are some of your personal goals and have you achieved them? 8. What satisfies you, bothers you, or motivates you? 9. List three personal attributes that you would like to improve? Have you made any efforts to improve? 10. How would others describe your weaknesses? 11. What are your greatest achievements at this point in your life? 12. What accomplishments are you most proud of? 13. What are your strong points? What are your weak points? 14. Painting (or whatever you wrote in your resume) has always intrigued me. How did you become interested in it? 15. How do you show your anger or frustration? MBA related Questions 1. Justify your suitability for admission into this B School? 2. Besides management education, which area/field would interest you most for a career and /or further education? 3. What would you do if you do not get selected to any of the B schools? 4. From which all institutes have you got calls? 16. Mention one significant achievement of your life till date. Why do you consider it as an achievement? 17. What are your strengths & weaknesses? 18. Who is your idol/role model? Why? 19. Identify a significant incident or situation from your own life. Briefly explain its nature, its importance to you and the manner in which you handled it. 20. How would you want people to remember you as? 21. What do you think of the GD? How did the group perform? How was your performance? How do you rate yourself? Do a fair analysis. 22. Tell us about your childhood. 23. Tell us any three questions we should ask you? 24. What does your name and surname mean? 25. What is your impression about the panel? 26. What questions do you expect from us? 27. Do you generally speak to people before they speak to you? 28. What is the funniest thing that has ever happened to you?

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Why shift from science to management? Why are you looking for higher studies? What interests you about this Institute? What do you know about this Institute? Why are you the best person among others? 10. In what ways do you think you can make a contribution to the batch? 11. Dont you feel you might be better off with a different college than ours?

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Future goals Questions 1. What are your career objectives? How do you intend to achieve them? 2. What are you looking for in your post MBA job? What is important to you? 3. What are your goals for the next five years / ten years? How do you plan to achieve those goals? 4. What new goals or objectives have you established recently? Why? 5. What do you know about opportunities in your field? Work related Questions 1. What were your responsibilities? Which was most / least rewarding? 2. What was your toughest job assignment? 3. What was your biggest accomplishment / failure in your job? 4. What was it like working for your supervisor? What were his strengths and shortcomings? 5. What did you like the most and least about your previous job? 6. What mistakes have you made in your career? How did you overcome them? 7. Would you describe a few situations in which your work was criticized? 8. Describe a situation in which you and a co-worker have disagreed. How did you work it out? 9. Have you ever taken charge as a leader in a work situation without being formally assigned to that role by your boss? 10. Have you ever gone beyond the call of duty in helping a client? Education related Questions 1. Justify your academic performance. 2. Which is your favorite subject? 3. What is your project? Describe. 4. What are the courses in the last semester? 6. What are the most important rewards you expect from your career? 7. What kind of challenge are you looking for? 8. What do you think determines a person's progress in a good institute? 9. How do you determine or evaluate success? 10. What personal characteristics are necessary for success in your field?

11. What were you doing during the period of time not covered in your resume? 12. Have you worked under deadline pressures? Provide examples. 13. Can you describe a typical work week? 14. What have you done that shows initiative and willingness to work? 15. How would you handle an upset customer / client? 16. Can you discuss some of your past leadership roles? 17. What was the most difficult ethical decision you have had to make? What was the result? 18. Are you a leader? A good manager? Analytical? Give an example we can verify. 19. Can you tell me about the last time you broke the rules? 20. What do you think it takes to be successful in an organization such as yours? 21. What was the worst career mistake you have ever made and what have you learned from it? 5. Why did you not do better in college? 6. Can you summarize your educational background for me? 7. What courses did you like the most? The least? Why?

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8. Do you feel you have done the best scholastic work for which you are capable? 9. Can you describe your study habits? 10. If you could start college over, what would you do differently? 11. Why did you choose to major in this field of study? Why did you choose your particular college or university? 12. What were your favorite college courses, those you liked most? Least? Why? 13. Please tell me about accomplishments in your academic program that are relevant to your future career goals. 14. What is your grade point average (GPA)? How do you feel about this? Extracurricular Activities Questions 1. What extra-curricular activities are you involved in? What have you gained from these experiences? 2. How do you spend your leisure time/ spare time? What are your extra curricular interests? 3. What are your hobbies? 4. What was the last book you read? Movie you saw? 5. Can you tell me about your accomplishments in extracurricular activities? 15. Should grades be used as an indicator of future career potential? 16. What were your reactions to instructors or college faculty during your academic program? 17. How satisfied are you with your accomplishments in this academic program? 18. What was the most difficult aspect of obtaining a college degree? 19. What are your academic strengths? 20. What courses gave you the most difficulty? 21. If you could, what changes would you make in your school's academic program?

6. Can you give examples of the challenges you experienced during your leadership positions with campus activities? 7. If you could relive your college experiences, what would you do differently? 8. What changes would you make in your overall campus life? 9. During your campus activities, what positions did you hold?

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