Interview Questions:
1. What did you achieve in your previous job?
2. Describe a past challenging situation and how you dealt with it.
3. What do you do to make yourself more effective in your work?
4. Describe your decision making process.
5. What do you do when you have trouble making a decision?
6. What do you know about our company? Why us?
7. How do you get good ideas? How do you identify good ideas and then develop them?
8. What is your value to our firm?
9. What salary do you think you deserve?
10. How do you build trust in group situations?
11. What was the greatest risk you have taken? What were the results?
12. How can you be more effective in terms of design and interpersonal relations?
13. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
14. Tell us about formative experiences in your past that led you to the design professions. How will these past experiences currently interact with your design?
15. Describe your core values, principles, thoughts as related to design and the profession.
16. Describe your ideal work situation.
17. Describe your strengths and weaknesses. What qualities separate you out from other applicants?
18. Tell us about your most important accomplishments.
19. How would your former bosses and teachers describe you?
20. How have you prepared yourself for professional work - personally and academically?
Alternate list:
· Tell me about a specific contribution you made to your last employer.
· Tell me about a recent team situation where you helped to alleviate some conflict within the group.
· Why did you apply to this firm? What is it about us that you liked?
· Why did you leave “Mr. Big shot's” firm last year?
· Would you prefer to be self-employed or work for a company?
· What kind of projects do you want to work on?
· What was your contribution to this project?
· How would you describe your work ethic?
· What was the budget for this project?
· How have you been spending your time since leaving Ms. X's firm?