Hiring Tools and Information

Revealing Questions To Ask Applicants:

• Tell me about the most memorable time when you weren't pleased with your own performance. What did you do about it.
  
  
• In your current position, how do you define doing a job? Are you doing a good job? How do you know?
  
  
• Tell me about a time when your job demanded extensive effort. How did you handle that demand?
  
  
• What job activities do you find require most energy? What did you do to maintain your energy level?
  
  
• Tell me about a time when you were competing with another person and lost. What was the situation? How did you respond?
  
  
• What have you done differently from your peers in your organization? Why have you done things differently.
  
  
• Have you made any recommendations to your manager recently? Give me an example. What happened to the idea?
  
  
• Describe a situation in which you had to adjust quickly to a change in organizational, departmental or team priorities and how that change affected you.
  
  
• Discuss a time when you had to meet a deadline while your work was being constantly interrupted. What made this difficult?
  
  
• Tell me about a time when your work contained a lot of challenging situations. How satisfied were you with that and why?