Selection Interview Questions
We strongly recommend completion of the worksheets provided for Establishing Selection Criteria prior to beginning this section. These will help to ensure that requirements of both the job and the organization's culture are considered, providing a sound basis for selecting appropriate questions for the selection interview, and for evaluating candidate responses.
Selection interviews can easily become an exchange of unsubstantiated statements between interviewer and interviewee, leaving both with little concrete information upon which decisions can be based.
For example, claims that "I am a people person," or "We are a people-oriented organization," are useless, as almost everyone makes such claims. Similarly, most questions that may be answered "Yes" or "No" should be avoided. The interviewer must penetrate these banalities to gain insights about the candidate's probable behaviour in typical real world situations.
With that in mind, we present an assortment of questions from which to choose for your selection interview. You will, of course, modify these generic questions to reflect the specific position, the day-to-day situations that the candidate may face, as well as the expected results, organization's values and working climate defined in the previous section.
Please select one of the following:
