Personal Interview – Sample

Questions
Prepared By
Aditi Gairola Kathpalia
 General Questions
1. How are you doing today/ How is your day going?
2. What does your name mean?
3. Introduce yourself/ Tell us something about yourself that is not there in your résumé.
4. What are your strengths? (With examples)
5. What are your weaknesses? (With examples)
6. Where do you see yourself in five/ten years from now?
7. What do you know about our company?
8. Do you get angry? What makes you angry?
9. What is the biggest challenge that you’ve faced in your life and have you been able to
handle it well? And how?
10.Is there any incident you’d like to share with us that changed your life completely?
11.Who is your role model and why?
12.What is your value system?
13.What are your interests/hobbies?
14. How do you keep yourself updated with the latest trends in the field
of Management?
15. What kind of internship opportunity or job/ role are you looking for?
16. What kind of company/ work environment are you looking for
youself?
17.What kind of boss would you like to work with?
18. What qualities do you think a successful manager must possess?
19.Why have you chosen this domain of Management?
20.Why should we select/hire you?/Why do you think you are a suitable
candidate for this role?
21.What are your expectations for stipend/ salary?
22. Do you have any question for us?
 Questions related to résumé
Ensure that every word you’ve mentioned in your résumé is
justifiable. Questions may be asked from any point.

1. Give examples for the traits mentioned by you in your one-liner.

2. Explain your career objective.
3. Justify the year gap/gaps in your educational journey.( If any)
4. Why has there been a dip/fluctuation in your percentage all through
these years.(if applicable)
5. Share something about your work-experience/Tell us about this
company/these companies you’ve worked with. (if applicable)
6. Tell us about your internship/live project. What was your most
important takeaway/learning from this engagement? (if applicable)
7. Tell us about your achievements/extra-curricular activities.
8. What additional certification courses have you completed?
9. Share instances where you exhibited these
functional/behavioral skills mentioned by you in your skill-
sets.
10. How good are you at Excel/ the mentioned Computer
Language/Software and so on?
11. Tell us something interesting about your hometown(or
other points from your personal details)