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Personnel Selection: Interview Questions: Flexibility

1. After being with the same employer for so long, do you think that it might be difficult to start at a new job?
2. Can you forget your education and start from scratch?
3. Can you start in this new profession?
4. Can you work irregular hours?
5. Describe how your job changed.
6. Describe the biggest change you've brought to your present company?
7. Describe the changes that took place at your (previous/current) employer.
8. Describe the most difficult problem on your last job, and tell me how you overcame it.
9. Describe situations in which you had a variety of projects simultaneously.
10. Do you feel comfortable making procedural changes affecting your department?
11. Do you have a problem with irregular hours?
12. Do you have a problem with non-routine tasks?
13. Do you like routine work?
14. Do you think you've been with one company for too long?
15. Do you view job security as of prime importance?
16. Has your job changed as a result of re-organization? Please explain.
17. Have you been through a re-organization?
18. How do you cope with change?
19. How do you deal with surprises?
20. How do you handle change?
21. How have you handled difficult changes in your working situation in the past?
22. How have you responded to your greatest disappointments?
23. How important is job security to you?
24. How would you change your current working conditions?
25. How would you handle a decision for which no procedure existed?
26. If you could change something about this position, what would it be?
27. If you could change something in the course of your life, what would you change?
28. This is a much larger company than you've ever worked at. How do you feel about that?
29. This is a much smaller company than you've ever worked at. How do you feel about that?
30. What adjustments do you expect to make in this job since it is so different from your (previous/current) employment?
31. What are your opinions on the challenges facing our company?
32. What can you do to help adjust to a new job?
33. What changes do you see this industry making in order to stay competitive?
34. What changes would you make in your current job?
35. What do you do when starting a new job?
36. What happens when two priorities compete for your time?
37. What is the most difficult change you've encountered in your career?
38. What is the most difficult change you've faced in your career?
39. What job responsibilities would you like to avoid on a new job?
40. What major problem have you encountered and how did you deal with it?
41. What major problem have you encountered and how did you handle it?
42. What major provlem have you encountered? How did you resolve it?
43. What problems do you have tolerating people different from you?
44. What will be the most difficult aspect of making the transition from college to your career? Why?
45. What will you do to compensate for your deficiencies?
46. What will you do to correct weaknesses?
47. What would you change about your current job or position?
48. What would you do to meet a deadline of a project?
49. Would you be happy in an entry-level job?
50. Would you consider a career change?
51. Would you prefer a large or a small company? Why?