Handout 4.3 Human Resource Management – page 1

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Sample Interview Questions

General Employment Experience

1. Briefly outline your current job responsibilities.

2. What are the three most important duties of your current job?

3. What do you like most about your current job?

4. What have you learned from the jobs you have held?

5. What problems do you encounter in doing your job, and what do you do about them?

6. What do you dislike about your job?

7. Why do you want to leave your job?

8. Have you ever been fired?

9. Have you done the best work you are capable of doing?

10. What areas of your skills/professional development do you want to improve at this time?

Technical Skills 1. What is your understanding of microfinance?

2. What experience do you have with small business?

3. Have you ever owned your own business?

4. What challenges do you think small businesses face in this area?

5. What do you think makes a small business successful?

6. Would you consider yourself entrepreneurial? If so, why?

7. What does ‘entrepreneurial” mean to you?

8. Tell me about your math skills.

9. When you go to the market, can you easily add up your total purchase in your head, or

do you rely on the vendor to tell you your total?

10. When making a major purchase, how do your make your decision? What factors do you

consider? (For example, buying a TV, car, place to live…)

Handout 4.3 Human Resource Management – page 2

MicroSave – Market-led solutions for financial services

Personality/Motivation/Interpersonal Skills

1. Tell me about yourself.

2. What have you done that shows initiative?

3. Do you prefer working with others or alone?

4. If I were to meet one of your friends on the street, what would they say about you?

5. What personality characteristics are necessary for success in your field?

6. What kind of people do you like to work with?

7. What would motivate you to come into work at 6:00am and not leave until 8:00pm?

8. If you could change one thing about yourself what would that be?

9. Describe your ideal boss to me.

10. What kind of people do you find it difficult to work with? How have you worked

successfully with this with type of person?

Specifically Related to the Organization

1. Why do you want to work here?

2. What interests you most about this job?

3. What personality traits do you have that will make you successful with our organization?

4. What other jobs/organizations are you pursuing?

5. What would be the "ideal" job for you?

6. What would be the most challenging aspect of this job for you?

7. What would you like to be doing five years from now?

8. Why should we hire you?