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The document provides a comprehensive list of interview questions designed to help individuals prepare for job interviews. It encourages meeting with a Career Counselor for mock interviews and skill enhancement. The questions cover various topics, including personal background, organizational knowledge, career aspirations, and self-evaluation.

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Interivew Questions

The document provides a comprehensive list of interview questions designed to help individuals prepare for job interviews. It encourages meeting with a Career Counselor for mock interviews and skill enhancement. The questions cover various topics, including personal background, organizational knowledge, career aspirations, and self-evaluation.

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You’re encouraged to meet with a Career Counselor in CDC to try out some examples and enhance your

interviewing skills---a mock interview can also be scheduled.


1. Tell me about yourself?
2. What do you know about our organization?
3. What value would you bring to this position? What can you do for us that someone else cannot?
4. Why should we hire you?
5. What are you looking for in a career?
6. Using your own words, please give your definition of the position for which you are being interviewed.
7. How long would it take you to make a meaningful contribution to this organization?
8. How long would you stay with this company?
9. How would you react if I said you may be over qualified or too experienced for the position we have to
offer?
10. Tell me why you could become an effective manager or supervisor?
11. What do you see as the most difficult challenge of this position?
12. Who is your favorite and least favorite professor?.......tell me why?
13. Describe for me a project you did for a course and what you learned in your own personal career planning?
14. Describe what you believe to be an ideal work environment.
15. How would you evaluate your education and your work in college?
16. Name a job you’ve had and tell me how you made a real difference there.
17. Tell me about a time when you worked with a budget or finances.
18. What would your co-workers say about you?
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19. In your current or last position, what tasks did you like the most? Least?
20. In your current or last position, what are or were your two most significant accomplishments?
21. Why haven’t you found a new position yet?
22. If you could start college over again, what might you do differently?
23. What kind of boss do you like?—and tell me how that influences your work.
24. Please describe a situation in which your work was criticized?
25. If I spoke with your previous boss, what would he/she say are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
26. Tell me if and how you work under pressure and tight deadlines.
27. In your present position, what problems have you identified that had previously been overlooked?
28. If you had your choice of jobs and companies, what would you choose?
29. What are your salary expectations if we offer this position to you?
30. Why do you want to work for us?
31. Leadership can be defined in many ways—how have you been a leader either on or off campus?
32. Tell me about some of the schools you were considering besides UWM…..why did you choose UWM?
33. What’s been the best thing about going to school here?.......the worst?
34. What other types of positions and companies are you considering?
35. Describe some things you’ve done to stay at the leading edge of your field.
36. What was the last book you read? Movie you saw? Sporting event you attended, etc.?
37. How would you respond if I offered you this position right now?
38. How would you describe your own personality?
39. Are you a leader? Give examples.
40. What would be your first move if you obtained this position?
41. What are your strong points? What are your weak points?
42. How do you see your career path developing over the next 5 years?
43. Tell me about a situation where you were in the middle of a conflict—how did it come out?
44. According to your definition of success, how successful have you been so far?
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45. What has been the toughest assignment in a class or job you ever had and how did you handle it?
46. Have you ever hired anybody?--what do you look for when you hire someone?
47. How would you describe the “culture” at UWM?
48. I see you have a new Chancellor—do you see any changes in the wind?
49. Describe for me the process you went through to choose a major.
50. What do you think about your Career Development Center at UWM?

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