Greetings and Introductory Question
Greetings and Introductory Question
Greetings and Introductory Question
Good afternoon
2. Come in please
3. Have a sit please
4. Nice to meet you
5. How do you do ?
6. How are you today ?
7. Can I help you?
8. Is the job easy or difficult ?
9. What time do you get up this morning ?
10. What do you do after you get up ?
11. Do you help your wife/husband ?
12. What time did you leave your home ?
13. What do you say to your wife/husband when you leave for home ?
14. How did you come here ?
15. Did you come here by car or by bus ?
16. Did someone accompany you to come here ?
17. When did you receive our reply to your application ?
18. How did you feel when you got our reply to your application ?
19. How do you feel now ?
Greetings And Introductory Question
1. Tell me about yourself ?
2. What kind of person are you ?
3. What are your parents jobs ?
4. Do you live in your own house or rent a house ?
5. Do you live with your parents ?
6. When were you born ?
7. Where were you born ?
8. Did you grow up in that city ?
9. Where did you spend your childhood ?
10. How many brothers or sisters do you have ?
11. How far is your house from this company ?
12. What is your status, married or not ?
13. Is your couple working ? Is there any problem because of it ?
14. How much time do you spend for your family ?
15. In your opinion, what is makes a happy marriage ?
16. How can you descript word success ?
17. Do you have any physical or emotion handicaps which might hamper your performance on the job ?
18. Have you ever stayed in the hospital ? Because of what have you been there ?
19. When did the last time you check up your health in the hospital ?
20. Do you have any bad illness that we need to know ?
Personal Information
Education background
1. Where did you go to university ?
2. What department were you in ?
3. When did you finish your study ?
4. How long did it take you to finish your education ?
5. What is the title of your graduating paper ?
6. Why did you write about such a topic ?
7. What semester are you in right now ?
8. Why do you want to apply for this job before you finish your study?
9. How will you manage your study and your job if you are hired here ?
10. Why did you choose to study at that university ?
11. What reason that makes you to choose your major ?
12. Does your family have an important role to determine you to choose that university ?
13. What about your education grades ?
14. How could you pay your tuition fee ?
15. Are you the One who always depending on to your parents for getting money pocket?
16. In your opinion is your examination results should be the first judge men ?
17. What did you learn from university that can be used in this job ?
18. We had been hired someone who was graduated from your university before . What
makes you different ?
19. Why you didnt continue your formal education ?
20. Do you have any plan to continue your formal education ?
Character and Habit
1. Do you think that youre an intelligent person ?
2. Are you an innovative person ?
3. What are your weaknesses and strengths ?
4. How often are you to lose your patience ?
5. Do you have a good relationship with your partner ?
6. Do you prefer to work on team or individually ?
7. Do you can work under pressure from another person ?
8. What is other person opinion about your work activity ?
9. Do you feel bored doing the same job every day ?
10. Were you usually absent ?
11. How do you describe yourself ?
12. Mention things that motivate you !
13. What things make you succeed ?
14. Do you get bored foe anything details ?
15. What is your reaction for unreasonable critics ?
16. Are you a competitive person ?
17. If you have different argument with your boss, will you say it ?
18. What kind of person do you think difficult to cooperate ?
19. Were you able to adapt with the change in your working place before ?
20. What do you think about companys policies ?
Management Skill
1. In your opinion, what is an ideal manager like ?
2. How would you establish a good raport with your subordinates ?
3. What things that could make a manager to be better ?
4. The only way to get everything done right is to do it yourself. What is your opinion about it ?
5. The only way to get a worker to do his best is to get out of his way . How do you feel about it ?
6. What do you think about department headed by a female executive ?
7. Sometimes your subordinates make mistakes. What will you do ?
8. What is your idea about success in a job ?
9. According to your subordinates, what strengths do you have ?
10. According to your subordinates, what weaknesses do you have ?
11. In what situation will you communicate with your subordinates ?
12. In what situation will you communicate with your boss ?
13. What will you do if you are in position as person who give job and responsibility to others ?
14. How good do you arrange and lead others ?
15. What will you do if your subordinates come and moan their private problem to you ?
16. What are you going to do in facing employees whose job isnt maximal and as companies want?
17. What are your plans and actions whenever you face problems ?
18. Will you follow up your decision ?
19. Do you that you are ready to handle bigger and heavier responsibility ?
20. What thing can you do to us that cannot be done by others ?
Career Purpose and Knowledge about The
Company
1. What makes you interest in working in this company ?
2. Why are you interested in this position ?
3. Are you prepared to work overtime if we hire you ?
4. What do you expect from our company in the future ?
5. Why do you want to switch career at this stage of your professional life ?
6. How important is the chance to get higher position for you ?
7. When do you want to be promoted ?
8. What is your long term career purpose ?
9. Describe what will you do in the next five years ?
10. What is the most important thing to you if you work here ?
11. Is your career purpose right now different with the beginning ?
12. How can you give this company profits. You are a fresh graduate person ?
13. Do you willing to move to our branches in other city ?
14. How did you know about our company ?
15. Do you have any relatives who work in this company ?
16. How well acquainted are you with our company ?
17. Do you know the main business of this company ?
18. What do you know about our products ?
19. In your opinion, what makes this company more special compared to others in the same field
?
20. Do think the company interested with you ?
Experience and Previous Job
1. Do you have any work experience ?
2. How long did you work for that company ?
3. Why were you interested to working for that company ?
4. Why did you quit from your job ?
5. Why do you want to quit your present job ?
6. Why did you want to move from your present job ?
7. What did you do when you had no job ?
8. What was the most difficult thing to do in your previous job ?
9. How did you cooperate with your partner, supervisor or your subordinates ?
10. Did you often take your office work home ?
11. Why do you often change your job ?
12. From your resume, youve had many short-duration jobs. Why ?
13. Do you have any problem with your partner, boss or subordinates ?
14. How did you know about this job opening ?
15. What experience have you had in supervising people whose technical knowledge exceeded yours ?
16. What has been your biggest disappointed ?
17. Did you ever walk out on a job without giving due notice ?
18. What was the biggest pressure on your present job ?
19. Did your previous employers refuse to give a reference ? If the answer is yes, why?
20. What make this job different with your last job ?
Skill and Ability
1. How many languages can you speak ?
2. Can you speak others foreign languages besides English ?
3. Are you capable to speak one or maybe more foreign languages ?
4. What languages are they ?
5. Have your education and your trainings been preparing yourself to jump into working world ?
6. What new skills have you developed in the past year ?
7. What skills do you have besides your knowledge from your formal education ?
8. What skills, besides the ones you got from your formal education, have you learnt to support your position
here ?
9. Are you sure that you can handle this job ?
10. Can you convince us that you are the right person for the job ?
11. Besides your work experience, do you have another experience in connecting with this job ?
12. With limited skills you have, how will you handle your job here ?
13. As a person about to reenter the labor market after a lapse of some years, what have you done to upgrade
your skills to prepare for this position?
14. Have you ever taken or attended any related training ?
15. How do you compare your working quality to other in the same field ?
16. Do you can operate a computer ?
17. Do you have your own computer at home ?
18. Do you think you understand and master computer?
19. Do you feel that internet and all sites in the world are very important and useful for your work ?
20. Do you think e-mail is a way in effective communication?
Hobbies and Interest
1. How do you spend your free time ?
2. What are your hobbies ?
3. What books do you usually read ?
4. Do you like reading novels ?
5. What novels do you like ?
6. Who is your favorite novelist ?
7. What newspaper do you like ? Why ?
8. Do you like sports ?
9. What kind of sports do you like ?
10. Do you like watching movie ?
11. What kind of film do you like ?
12. Who is your favorite actor or actress ?
13. Do you like music ?
14. What music do you like ?
15. Who is your favorite singer ?
16. Why do you like them ?
17. Do you like watching TV ?
18. What program do you like ?
19. What kind of extracurricular had you joined in your school ?
20. Are friends and partners becoming the part of your social life ?
Salary Negotiation
1. How much salary do you expect from this company ?
2. As the starting salary, how much do you expect from this company ?
3. How much is your present salary ?
4. How much salary do you expect from this company ?
5. In your opinion, are the person in your position should pay higher ?
6. We are not able to meet salary you ask for. How far can you lower your sights to
be more within range of the company salary structure for your type of position ?
7. In your opinion, how much salary that proper to received to person with
experiences like you ?
8. The progression of your salary in the previous company shows that you were
evidently well appreciated by the company. Why arent you working there anymore
?
9. According to your supervisor, what are your strengths in the work ?
10. How much is a percentage of salary increase that you expected ?
11. Do you have any outside income ?
12. Approximately how much does your outside income amount to ?
13. From what source is your outside income derived ?
14. Do you have any debts ?
15. Have you ever felt financial difficulties ?
Applicants Question
1. How many employees work in this company?
2. How many employees in each department those work in this company ?
3. As a department head, how many subordinates will be under my supervision ?
4. Who will my in-line superior be if Im hired ?
5. Does the relation between senior manager and this contain departments are positive ?
6. Does a certain department work separated with another department ?
7. Do all departments, independently, do their duty, responsibility and in reporting their income and expense ?
8. To whom must the supervisor report their responsibility and result of their jobs ?
9. May I know the system of the working hour here ?
10. What are managements tricks and plans to develop this company ?
11. What are the companys vision and mission ?
12. What kind of approach is used by the company in the market ?
13. How is the effect of market trend to the companys growth and development ?
14. What is the unique about this companys way to work ?
15. This time what is the new effort that had been doing by the company ?
16. Does the company have a plan to merger or accuisition ?
17. May I know about the companys policy about an employees promotion ?
18. Does this company have specific criteria or policies about an employees promotion ?
19. How is the promotion decision here, by seniority, quality of performance or on another basis ?
20. How is the companys way to determine the right time to promote someone ?
21. What are the informal standarts you will use to evaluate my effectivity and contribution ?
22. How often are the quality of performance and salary evaluated ?
23. What is the companys system of salary review like ?
24. Does the company review the salary rate based on the employees performance or periodically?
25. Is the salary review based on the employees performance or his/her length of service ?
26. Does this company provide training programs for its new employees ?
27. How long is the training program ?
28. What kind of trainings and professional developing assignment that available to help the employees development ?
29. Does the company support other professional development trainings?
30. Does the company provide the employees with insurance ?
31. Does the company guarantee them all or the employees have to pay it ?
32. If we must pay, how many percent do we need to pay ?
33. Is there any possibility for employees to join the retirement program ?
34. Does the company give loan for house credits ?
35. Does the company have profit share program to their employees?
36. What is the company policies related to illness permition ?
37. How long is the probation period ?
38. How is the working leaves given to this position ?
39. Does on employee here have an annual leaves?
40. How long is the annual leave ?
41. How long is the position had been offered to new employee?
42. How many employees have been worked on this position for the last five years?
43. Why the last employee does not work in this position again?
44. How many employees have been promoted on this position for the last five years?
45. May I know more about my responsibilities if I am hired here?
46. What kind of duty and obligation are the most important on this position according to the company?
47. What goal and achievement do you expect from all employees you hired?
48. Is there another subsequent after this before a hiring decision is made ?
49. When can I know the result of this interview?
50. How long is this company needed to make a decision to hire a new employee?