GETTING TO KNOW YOU EVEN MORE

Where were you born?
Who do you live with?
Who do you respect the most?
Why did you decide to take this course?
Why do you want to learn English?
What will be doing in five years?
Where will you be living in five years?
What is your goal in life?
Are you a 'morning' or 'night' person?
When do you feel best? In the morning, afternoon, or evening?
How many jobs have you had?
Which do you prefer, sunrises or sunsets?
Who is your next door neighbor ?
What is he or she like?
What kind of relationship do you have?

HOLIDAYS

1. Who is your favorite holiday Why?
2. What are three holidays that you like to spend with your family?
3. What is the worst holiday?
4. If you had a long holiday, what would you do?
5. Do you like to sleep late on holidays?
6. Who do you usually spend the holidays with?
7. If a holiday falls on a Sunday, should you get another day off?
8. What is best present you ever received?
9. What is your favorite holiday food?
10. What holiday is the next one?
11. Do you go to church on holidays?
12. How do you celebrate Christmas?
13. What is your favorite holiday festival in your country?
14. Do you light off fireworks on New Years Eve in your country?
15. If you could visit any other country during Christmas, where would you go?

MONEY

1. What's your favorite place to shop?
2. What's your favorite shopping area or store?
3. When did you go the supermarket?
4. Tell me 5 things you bought
5. What was the last gift you bought?
6. Where do you keep your money?
7. Where do you usually buy food?
8. What is a savings account?
9. Which costs more, a hamburger in America or a hamburger in your country?
10. Which costs more, your telephone bill or your electric bill?
11. Which do you prefer, large stores or small stores?
12. Which do you think is more important, love or money?
13. Which store do you go to the most often?
14. Where is it?
15. Why do you like to go there?
16. Who do you often go shopping with?
17. Who do you spend money on?
18. Do you use checks to pay?
19. Do you have a credit card? If so, do you have more than one?
20. Do you have more than one bank account?

TOUGH QUESTIONS

1. Give me an example of a time when you took the time to share a co-worker's or supervisor's achievements with others?
2. Tell me about a time that you didn't work well with a supervisor. What was the outcome and how would you have changed the outcome?
3. Have you worked with someone you didn't like? If so, how did you handle it?
4. Tell me about a time that you helped someone.
5. Tell me about a time that you misjudged a person.
6. How do you get along with older (younger) co-workers?
7. Describe a decision you made that was a failure. What happened and why?
8. Tell me about a time that you worked conveying technical information to a nontechnical audience.
9. Tell me about a time that you worked with data, interpreting data, and presenting data.
10. Why do you think you will be successful at this job?
11. Tell me about a time that you participated in a team, what was your role?
12. Tell me about a time when you were faced with conflicting priorities. How did you determine the top priority?
13. Tell me about a time when you failed.
14. What would you do differently if you could start your working life over?
15. How do you balance life and work?
16. What is your preferred way to communication - instant message, phone, or email?
17. Do you check voicemail and email when on vacation?
18. What is your favorite book? How about your favorite movie?
19. What historical figure do you admire and why?
20. If you could choose anyone (alive or deceased) to have lunch with, who would it be?
21. If you could be any animal on a carousel what would you pick and why?
22. What did you do during this six month gap in employment?
23. What do you love?
24. What led you to this point in your life?
25. Do you consider yourself successful?
26. What inspires you in a job?
27. Start with your graduation from college and explanation the rationale behind each of your career moves.
28. Also explain the thinking process that went into making each if those decisions.
29. How many hours a day/week do you need to work to get the job done?
30. If you stayed with your current company, what would be your next move?
31. How do you measure success?
32. Describe your dream job.
33. Describe a job that would be your worst nightmare.
34. If you were the CEO of this company what would be the top two things that you would do?

ABOUT THE NEW JOB AND THE COMPANY

1. What interests you about this job? 
2. Why do you want this job? 
3. What applicable attributes / experience do you have? 
4. Are you overqualified for this job? 
5. What can you do for this company?
6. Why should we hire you?
7. Why are you the best person for the job? 
8. What do you know about this company? 
9. Why do you want to work here? - Best Answers
10. What can you contribute to this company? 
11. Are you willing to travel? 
12. Is there anything I haven't told you about the job or company that you would like to know? 

JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ABOUT YOU

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2. What is your greatest weakness?
3. What is your greatest strength?
4. Describe a typical work week.
5. Do you take work home with you?
6. How many hours do you normally work?
7. How would you describe the pace at which you work?
8. How do you handle stress and pressure?
9. What motivates you?
10. What are your salary expectations?
11. What do you find are the most difficult decisions to make?
12. Tell me about yourself.
13. What has been the greatest disappointment in your life?
14. What are you passionate about?
15. What are your pet peeves?
16. What do people most often criticize about you?
17. When was the last time you were angry? What happened?
18. If you could relive the last 10 years of your life, what would you do differently?
19. If the people who know you were asked why you should be hired, what would they say?
20. Do you prefer to work independently or on a team?
21. Give some examples of teamwork.
22. What type of work environment do you prefer?
23. How do you evaluate success?
24. If you know your boss is 100% wrong about something how would you handle it?
25. Describe a difficult work situation / project and how you overcame it.
26. Describe a time when your workload was heavy and how you handled it.
27. More job interview questions about your abilities.
28. More job interview questions about you.

WORK HISTORY

Name of company, position title and description, dates of employment.
What were your expectations for the job and to what extent were they met?
What were your starting and final levels of compensation?
What were your responsibilities?
What major challenges and problems did you face? How did you handle them?
What did you like or dislike about your previous job?
Which was most / least rewarding?
What was the biggest accomplishment / failure in this position?
Questions about your supervisors and co-workers.
What was it like working for your supervisor?
What do you expect from a supervisor?
Who was your best boss and who was the worst?
Why are you leaving your job?
What have you been doing since your last job?
Why were you fired?