What Should You Ask In An Interview?

“Your Customers Are Your #1 Asset!”
—DCF

In developing the Circle of Marketing these are some of the questions I feel need to be incorporated into your interviews.

Questions to ask potential employees:
1. Share with me an example where you have used your abilities on the job to define a problem with a guide. And how did you solve it?

2. Tell me of a time where you challenged prevailing assumptions and asked hard questions to facilitate change.

3. Do you have the ability to work in a team environment without guidance? Share with me one such experience.

4. Describe a time where you worked by yourself to accomplish a project—a project where you took full responsibility for its completion.

5. Tell me of a time where you have successfully persuaded others to adopt your point of view.

6. Discuss a situation where you have shown the ability to conceptualize and reorganize information into new patterns.

7. Describe the process you would go through to gain a through knowledge of a subject.

8. Explain in detail something that you are an expert at.

9. Show me examples where you have committed yourself to the pursuit of lifelong learning?

10. Discuss the last book you read. What impact did it have on your life?

11. What was the last thing you wrote? Why did you write it?

12. What have you done to improve your leadership skills?

13. How have you worked on your speaking &/or presentation skills? Share a few examples of each.

14. Show your ability to use inductive reasoning. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

15. Show your ability to use deductive reasoning. Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect).

16. How have you been a mentor towards someone else?

17. How do you show your public virtue—the voluntary sacrifice of personal comforts or benefits for the good of the community?

18. How often do you set goals? And how often do you review your goals?

19. What are some of your passions? How do you pursue them?

20. What are some of the most important commitments you have made in your life? How do they effect your daily decisions?

21. How will your boss describe you when I talk to him?


“Look for someone who strongly believes in something.” Dr Kary Mullis


A number of these questions are modified from A Thomas Jefferson Education, Oliver DeMille, George Wythe College

This is a work in progress.

Here is a link to some good questions from Career Builder that go alone these lines.