HR Guide to the Internet:
Personnel Selection: Interview Questions: Job Search

1. Are you looking for permanent or temporary work?
2. Are you still employed?
3. Describe to me what you're looking for in a job.
4. Do you have any objections if we check former employers for references?
5. Do you know much about our company?
6. Does your current employer have any policies that you consider unfair?
7. Does your current employer know that you are interviewing for another job?
8. For what period of time do you envision yourself working with us?
9. Have you had any other interviews?
10. Have you seen our Web site?
11. How are you conducting your job search?
12. How badly do you want to get this job?
13. How did you do your most (interesting/boring) job?
14. How did you feel when you started your last job?
15. How did you find your current job?
16. How did you get promoted in your last job?
17. How did you get summer jobs?
18. How did you get the time off to interview?
19. How did you get your first job after college?
20. How did you get your last job?
21. How did you get your previous jobs?
22. How did you happen to apply for this job?
23. How did you hear about us?
24. How did you learn about this job?
25. How did you plan to interview?
26. How did you prepare for this interview?
27. How did your previous jobs relate to his position? What did you learn from them?
28. How do you interview while still employed?
29. How do you manage to interview while still employed?
30. How do you rank your current job with others that you've held?
31. How do you spend most of your time in your current job?
32. How do you think this industry works?
33. How does this job compare with any other jobs you've applied for?
34. How does this job fit into the goals of the company?
35. How does this job fit into the goals of the department?
36. How long has your current job search lasted?
37. How long have you been looking for a job?
38. How long have you been looking for a new job?
39. How long have you been looking for another job?
40. How long have you been unemployed?
41. How long would you plan to work for this company?
42. How long would you stay with us?
43. How many interviews have you had?
44. How many offers have you received?
45. How many other companies have you interviewed for?
46. How many other positions have you applied for?
47. How soon could you begin work?
48. How would you define your profession?
49. If you have these complaints about your current company, and they like you, why haven't you brought your concerns to their attention?
50. If you're happy with your current employer, why are you looking for another job?
51. In what type of position are you interested?
52. In what type of position are you most interested?
53. In what type of position are you most interested? Why? What do you know about this field?
54. In what ways did you prepare for this interview?
55. May I contact some of your references?
56. May we check your references?
57. May (I/we) contact your (current) employer?
58. Tell me what you know about this organization [company].
59. Tell me what you're looking for in a job.
60. Tell me why you left your last job.
61. Tell me your career goals.
62. What about your current job do you find the most unpleasant?
63. What are some of your reasons for considering other employment?
64. What are the disadvantages of your chosen field?
65. What are you looking for in a job that you do not have in your current job?
66. What are you looking for in a job?
67. What can you tell me about our company goals?
68. What can you tell me about our company?
69. What can you tell me about our customers?
70. What can you tell me about our products?
71. What criteria are you using to evaluate the company for which you hope to work?
72. What criteria are you using to evaluate this company as a potential employer?
73. What criteria are you using to interview employers?
74. What do you find least interesting about this job?
75. What do you find most interesting about this job?
76. What do you like least about this job?
77. What exactly do you do for a living?
78. What factors are important to you in a job?
79. What has caused you to change jobs so frequently?
80. What interests you most about our position?
81. What interests you most about this position?
82. What is missing from your last job that you'd like to see in this one?
83. What is more important to you, the money or the type of job?
84. What is our corporate culture like?
85. What is the biggest mistake you ever made in selecting a job?
86. What is the silliest thing you've ever done?
87. What is your present position?
88. What job do you like doing the least?
89. What jobs have you held?
90. What jobs have you held? How were they obtained and why did you leave?
91. What makes this job different from your others?
92. What other firms are you talking to and why?
93. What position are you most interested in?
94. What research have you done on our firm and on our industry?
95. What story could you tell me that would make you stand out from the other candidates?
96. What the most important thing you're looking for in a job?
97. What type of career are you looking for?
98. What type of position do you have now? (or What exactly do you do at ___? Or, Tell me more about your work at ___).
99. What was your most meaningful job, whether paid-time, full-time, summer or volunteer? What was special about that job?
100. What will be the determining factors in choosing a job?
101. What's your present job like?
102. When can you start working?
103. When did you leave your last job?
104. Where did you learn about this job?
105. Where else have you applied to?
106. Which of the following matters most in deciding to take the job: money, recognition, challenge, or responsibility?
107. Who made you a job offer?
108. Who made you the job offer?

     For what kind of position?

109. Why are you interested in our company?
110. Why are you interested in this company, this position?
111. Why are you interested in this position?
112. Why are you interviewing with us?
113. Why are you seeking a position with this company?
114. Why did you decide to seek a position with this company?
115. Why did you leave your last (employer/job)?
116. Why did you interview with this company?
117. Why do you think you would like this particular type of job?
118. Why do you want this job? What are you looking for from this job?
119. Why do you want this position?
120. Why do you want to be manager? (or Why a ______?)
121. Why do you want to change positions?
122. Why do you want to leave your current employer so soon?
123. Why do you want to leave your job if you like it so much?
124. Why do you want to leave your present job?
125. Why do you want to work for me?
126. Why do you want to work for us?
127. Why do you want to work here?
128. Why do you want to work in a job for which you are overqualified?
129. Why do you want to work in this industry, and for our company?
130. Why didn't you complete any internships?
131. Why have you changed jobs frequently?
132. Why have you changed jobs so frequently?
133. Why have you changed jobs?
134. Why would you like this line of work?
135. Why would you want to work here if I hired you?
136. Would you rather go to another company?
137. You've been with your current employer for a very short time. Is this an indication that you'll be moving around a lot throughout your career?
138. You've changed jobs quite frequently, what assurances do we have that you will stay with us?