Friday, October 12, 2007

Veterinary Questions for Interview

Accidents happen in every profession. What if you kill an animal by accident (wrong drug, surgical mistake, overdose, etc)? What would you do?

An owner brings in a young healthy dog and wants you to euthanize it because they will be moving
out of the state. What do you do?

What are two diseases that would be common in a thirteen-year-old cat?

What can you do to make a dog that is afraid of doctors more comfortable?

How do you know if a cat is scared?

What current issues do you think veterinarians are involved in?

How do I feel about euthanasia? Do I have a problem with it?

What are 5 qualities of a great vet

How do you deal with stress, how do you relax, who do you turn to if you're stressed?

What is the difference between animal rights and animal welfare?

Why do you want to be a vet?

Out of your vet experience, what do you enjoy the most?

How do you feel about using live animals to practice surgery, etc?

Tell me about the appealing/non-appealing parts of veterinary medicine

Would you treat an animal hit by a car even though the owner won't pay?

Who should you call if you think the animal you are treating may have been abused? What legal avenues can the vet pursue if any?

Do you have a right not to treat an animal?

Teacher Questions for Interview

What do you expect from the school principal, psychologist and superintendent?

What are the greatest teaching strengths you would bring to a teaching position?

What would you tell a parent who complained about his/her child not having enough homework?

Imagine that you replace a teacher during the year. Describe how you would become acquainted with parents and students.

In your opinion, how effective are parent conferences in solving student problems?

How do you let parents know the progress of their child?

Tell me some ways you would involve parents in your classroom.

Describe some ways you can inform parents of what is going on in your classroom.

What two core teaching strategies do you most use to achieve this result?

When you think about your students, in what major ways do you most want to influence their lives?

What do you need to know in order to begin your lesson planning for a class?

What three things do you most want to know about your students?

How much do you want to know about your students in order to be most helpful to them?

What are your three most important reasons for wanting to be a teacher?

You have heard students complaining constantly about another teacher. What would you do?

What do you believe is the major purpose of teacher evaluation?

What talents do you bring to this position?

How would you go about setting standards at the beginning of the year?

How do you get students to do what you want them to do? Describe your system of classroom management.

How do you get students to develop in self-discipline? Can you teach this?

Who should be responsible for the discipline in the school?

If you have a student disrupting your classroom, what steps would you take to solve this problem?

What is your attitude towards individual vs. total class punishment?

Compare negative and positive reinforcement and describe effects of each.

What steps would you take to get a student who has been tardy to be more punctual?

What would I expect to see in your classroom's physical environment?

Describe what diagnostic and proscriptive learning means?

What are the various ways for materials to be presented to students such as in social science?

If you were asked to get in-service experience in one area of the curriculum, which area would you choose?

What goals do you hope to achieve in your subject?

In which curriculum area do you feel particularly strong?

Name some ways that a student in a group can show you he has the concept?

How would you individualize the learning process in your classroom?

How can you tell students are learning? Evaluation techniques?

What does individualized teaching mean to you?

What do you understand the inquiry method to be in science or social sciences?

Do you prefer homogeneous or heterogeneous grouping? Why?

How would you decide on groups in mathematics?

What reading programs do you have experience with? What do you like or dislike about them?

If you were hired to teach starting this September, how would you go about setting up your reading program?

Secretary Questions for Interview

If I asked you to schedule a meeting and insure that all aspects of the meeting are taken care of, what will you do?

What else should we know about you?

What level of management are you currently supporting?

Do you know how to use Microsoft Outlook?

Give me an example on how you would answer the phone?

How fast can you type?

What technical skills do you possess?

Do you know how to use MS PowerPoint?

Do you know how to use MS Word?

Do you know how to use MS Excel?

Can you use macros?

Can you create a calendar of projects for each manager in Excel?

What is your experience with meeting planning and calendar maintenance?

How do you coordinate and schedule a meeting?

What are the different means by which documents may be filed?

How do you work with confidential information?

Sales Questions for Interview

What makes you different from any other salesman?

Pick anything in this room and try to sell it to me.

What do you like and dislike about presentations and why?

What do you see as the key issues in negotiating?

What do you see as the key skills in closing?

How would your present prospects and customers describe you as their sales representative?

How many rejections do you take in a typical week?

How do you move forward from a string of rejections?

What are some of the challenges you see that are facing this industry?

What are your top three open-ended questions for initial sales calls?

What do you think are the most important skills in succeeding in sales?

In your current position, how much time would you say you spend directly with prospects and customers throughout the sales day and what specifically do you do with them?

What type of sales cycle is most rewarding to you? A long cycle for a big ticket item or a series of smaller, more frequent sales.

What do you like and dislike about the sales process and why?

What do you like and dislike about the products or services you're selling now and why?

What are your favorite selling books?

Receptionist Questions for Interview

Why did you stay so long in your last two Companies? What is your career goals? What do you least like about dealing with customer? What do you know my company? How much salary do you expect?

What is most important about being a Receptionist?

A person walks into the building and asks to speak to one of the managers he can see threw the window. The manager told you he is unavailable to speak with anyone today. What do you tell the person? What if they argue? What if they will not take no for an answer?

What are you trying to accomplish when answering the phone?

How fast can you type?

One of our managers is not picking up the phone, but the client needs to speak with him right away. What do you do?

What is the difference between a Receptionist and a Secretary?

Please give me an example on how you would answer the phone?

Do you know how to use MS Word?

Tell us about your clerical experience.

Assume that you've been hired for the position. A mother calls and says her child is sick and she needs an appointment this morning. You don't have an open appointment for the morning. What will you do?

Principal Questions for Interview

What computer programs and or skills are you proficient in?

How do you bring out excellence in others?

How do you deal with mediocrity?

What are the most important ways that you will help the teachers?

How would you approach staff morale?

What do you consider to be the characteristics of an excellent teacher?

How would you score yourself as a teacher given your standards?

A teacher does not measure up to expectations. How do you address the situation? What process would you follow?

Are there any recent professional articles, books, or conferences have you encountered lately that have affected your practice?

When you have an important decision to make, how do you make it?

How do you get a feel for what teachers or students are thinking?

How do you solicit and process evaluation of your performance?

What has been your experience with parental involvement in schools?

What is your expectation of student conduct, demeanor, or deportment in how they carry themselves in school and at school related functions?

Tell us about a difficult discipline situation you have dealt with.

What is the principal’s role in helping students develop character and virtue?

How do you envision the principal relating to the students?

What experience do you have in development, fundraising, and endowments?

Describe your knowledge of finance and experience in budgeting.

In what ways are you a visionary?

Discuss the balance between academics, athletics, the arts, and other extracurriculars.

What is the role of technology in education?

What has been your experience in curriculum and design? How will you approach this element at our school?

What do you consider to be your greatest contribution to the schools you have worked in, in light of that, what do you feel you can bring to our school?

What do you think is the most important task of the principal?

How would you express your understanding of what our school stands for and how does this fit with your personal educational philosophy?

Why do you want to be principal of this School?

Pilot Interview Questions

You signal to the air traffic controler that you are ready for landing and you get no response. What do you do?

Please explain in order what actions you would perform once everyone has boarded the plane?

What would you do if you saw a passenger being abusive to a member of cabin crew?

What do you think poses the greatest threat to Airline security today?

Discuss the significance of Mcrit.

Why do airliners have swept wings?

How many seats does a particular aircraft that the Company flies have?

What would you do if you lost an engine on take off?

Pharmacist Questions for Interview

What were your least favorite rotations and why?

Have you ever had a major conflict with a preceptor/doctor? If so, how did you handle it?

What qualities do you expect in a preceptor?

What would your pharmacy preceptors say about you?

What is one of the major issues facing pharmacy today?

What practice areas are you interested in?

Describe a clinical intervention that you have made.

Choose a topic relating to clinical pharmacy, and we’ll ask you a question about it.

What do you anticipate a typical day in your career to be like?

If you were alone on a deserted island, what three medications would you bring with you?

Here’s a scenario we would like you to consider: You are the only pharmacist in the pharmacy. On the phone is a nurse wanting to know dosing for a dopamine drip for a patient who is crashing. At the window is a doctor who is ranting and raving about an enoxaparin order that wasn’t approved. On the other line is a nurse calling about a patient with a vancomycin level of 15. In what order do you handle these problems?

Nursing Questions for Interview

How would you respond if a doctor in a rude and haughty tone questioned your work, which you knew to be top-notch and absolutely accurate?

How would you respond if asked by the head nurse to do some of the menial tasks for patients that are normally not your responsibility?

Have you ever been burned out? When? What did you do about it?

Give a specific example of a time when you knew you did a good job as a nurse.

Why did you decide to become a nurse rather than a doctor?

Describe a situation where you found yourself working with someone who was very sensitive or thin-skinned.

We all have tried different ways of showing consideration for others. What are some things you've actually done?

What are some of the ways that Nursing can become more professional?

If you were told that the nursing field was closed and you could not be a nurse, what would you do?

What types of nursing tasks are most objectionable to you?

Describe a situation you experienced in the past year, connected with nursing, that made you angry.

How many years do you see yourself staying with this hospital?

Describe a challenging problem you faced on one of your clinical rotations. How did you solve the problem?

What is the role of the director of nursing?

What is your personal philosophy of nursing?

Why did you choose nursing?

Marketing Questions for Interview

How do you create a marketing strategy?

Tell me about your self?

How can your company pinpoint weaknesses in your customers' experiences and make improvements that lead to increased profits?

With whom should you partner to help support this shift to customer-centricity?

How can marketing lead the way toward customer centricity? What experience do you have to support your answer?

Investment Banking Questions for Interview

Two companies: an oil/gas company and a consumer products company. How do I look at them differently in terms of debt capacity?

Where did the NASDAQ or Dow close recently?

Would I offer to buy a company at its current stock price?

What is the average P/E ratio within the S&P 500? Is Google’s P/E higher of lower? What is it? Is
Black & Decker’s P/E higher or lower? What is it? Why is that?

Lead me through a Discounted Cash Flow valuation. What is Free Cash Flow? (How is it calculated?)

If I gave you a $100,000, where would you invest your money?

What specific area of interest in banking (group/product) do you think you would be most interested in?

What do bankers/sales&trading/research analysts do?

How does your past career qualify you for a position in investment banking / sales & trading / PCS?

Rank the firms on Wall Street. Where do you fit? Who is our competition? What differentiates our firm? What are our strengths / weaknesses?

Do you personally invest in stocks? Which ones? Why?

Tell me three items on the front page of today's Wall Street Journal.

Where is the market going?

Where do you think interest rates will be 2 year from now?

Where is the Dow Jones today? S&P? NASDAQ? 20-year or 30-year T-Bonds?

Where is our firm's stock trading?

Why might a company choose debt over equity financing?

What major factors drive mergers and acquisitions?

Why would two companies merge?

When do you use a WACC versus a cost of equity?

What's a cost of capital?

How do you value firms?

What issues does XYZ Company have in entering a given industry (Porter framework)?

Discuss the effect of rising interest rates on the US economy.

If you could buy one stock today, what would it be and why?

HR Questions for Interview

Please tell me about a time you had to fire a friend.

Tell me about your dream job?

If you had enough money to retire right now, would you?

Are you applying for other jobs?

How long would you expect to work for us if hired?

Are you a team player?

Describe your work ethic?

What qualities do you look for in a manager?

If you were hiring a person for this job, what would you look for?

How will you hire a employee?

Describe your management style?

What have you learned from mistakes on the job?

Are you willing to put the interests of the organization ahead of your own?

Are you willing to work overtime? Nights? Weekends?

What motivates you to do your best on the job?

Do your skills match this job or another job more closely?

Tell me about a problem you had with a supervisor?

What would your previous supervisor say your strongest point is?

What is more important to you the money or the work?

What do you think you would do well at this job?

Where do you see yourself after 10 years?

What would you do for the growth of this company?

Why do you want to join this company?

Why do you want to change companies?

Speak about yourself professionally?

What are some things you should talk about, if they ask you "Tell me something about yourself"

What is a management interview?

Why do you want to join this industry?

Why do you want to leave your current job?

Why should we not hire you?

Exit Questions for Interview

Did you receive sufficient feedback about your performance between merit reviews?
Before deciding to leave, did you investigate a transfer within the company?
Would you recommend working for this company to your family and friends?
What was the quality of the supervision you received?
Would you consider working again for this company in the future?
What would you improve to make our workplace better?
Did your job duties turn out to be as you expected?
What would you change about your job?
What was least satisfying about your job?
What was most satisfying about your job?
Did anything trigger your decision to leave?
What is your primary reason for leaving?

Engineering Questions for Interview

Tell us about a situation in which you handled a customer’s questions or problems?

Tell us about your quality engineering experience?

What do you expect of others in a team environment?

Describe your leadership style and give an example?

What motivates you?

What would you want to achieve in your first year on the job?

Tell me about a recent team experience you had that was fulfilling.

Tell me about a time when you didn't achieve your objective.

What kinds of situations have you been in that required project planning?

Describe a complex problem you have solved/haven't solved?

Aviation Questions for Interview

If you attain all your goals as a professional pilot what do you intend to give back to aviation?
What makes a bad pilot?
What makes a great pilot?
If you could no longer fly due to medical reasons, what would you do?
I see your flying various twin's, do they all have a critical engine?
The aircraft is loaded way beyond gross weight, the Captain tell's you that he does this all the time, and the aircraft will fly. What do you do?
You smell smoke in the cockpit, what initial action should you take?
You are talking to the Captain, and you smell alcohol. Although you didn't see him drinking, what would you do?
You find your Captain. Drinking before a flight, how will you handle this?
How would you fly this SID?
How did you get started in Aviation?
Have you ever had an Emergency?
What can you bring to this company?
Tell us about yourself?

Pilot Questions for Interview

You signal to the air traffic controler that you are ready for landing and you get no response. What do you do?

Please explain in order what actions you would perform once everyone has boarded the plane?

What would you do if you saw a passenger being abusive to a member of cabin crew?

What do you think poses the greatest threat to Airline security today?

Discuss the significance of Mcrit.

Why do airliners have swept wings?

How many seats does a particular aircraft that the Company flies have?

What would you do if you lost an engine on take off?

ASP.NET Interview Questions

How can we input Excel Data into SQLServer in ASP.NET

Why do we use XMLSerializer class?

What is the maximum number of cookies that can be allowed to a web site?

How do you disable client side validation?

What is the default session out time?

What is the transport protocol used to call a webservice?

Custom Controls are derived from which of the classes?

What namespace does the Web page belong to in the .NET Framework class hierarchy?

How do you register a user control?

The first event to be triggered in an aspx page is?

What is the difference between .net authentication and authorization?

How will you load a dynamic assembly? How do you create Assemblies at run time?

How do you upload images in asp.net by using vb.net?

What is a Hash Table?

What is the difference between Response.Write() and Response.Output.write()?

What is the difference between a Webservice call and an Inproc call?

How we can write code to generate message boxes in ASP.NET?

How can we write code to Add CheckBox Control to DataGrid?

Why do we use Javascript in ASP.NET over VBScript and other's?

Can anyone tell me briefly about JIT in .NET Framework? Like when exactly it gets instatiated? Is
is a compiler?

How can you handle exceptions raised in a component?

What's a bubbled event?

How do you share load on multiple servers using a session object?

What are the types of authentication in Asp.net?

How do you enforce garbage collection in .net

What is a satellite assembly in.net?

What is the meaning of COMPONENT?

How can we provide security to webforms?

How can we add VB Script to asp.net pages?

How do you access form information that is stored on the server?

What is view State?