(Contributors: CUHK Final-year Students)
Types of Job Interview Questions
| 1. Ice-breakers |
| 2. Skills and Experience |
| 3. Knowledge |
| 4. Current Affairs |
| 5. Attitude / Personality / Motivation |
| 6. Probing / Tricky / Problem-solving |
| 7. Job-specific |
| 8. Technical |
Ice-breakers
| 1. Please introduce yourself in 5 minutes. |
| 2. Introduce yourself. |
| 3. Please introduce yourself and your hobbies. |
| 4. Please tell me something about yourself, your family and school life. |
| 5. Can you introduce yourself? |
| 6. Can you tell me something about your hobbies? |
| 7. Can you tell me something about your family and your studies? |
| 8. Briefly introduce yourself. |
Skills and Experience
| 1. What kind of activities did you participate in? |
| 2. Tell me about your past working experience. |
| 3. What achievement do you have in sports? |
| 4. What kind of computer skills do you know? |
| 5. What did you gain from your work experience? |
| 6. What were the difficulties for your job? How did you overcome them? |
| 7. Can you tell me your experience in the English Debating Team? |
| 8. Why did you join the English Debating Team? |
| 9. Which university course do you find most difficult? How did you cope with it? |
| 10. Please tell me more about your involvement in extracurricular activities. |
| 11. Describe what you have done and learnt from your summer job. |
| 12. What did you do in your activities? |
| 13. What exactly did you do in your summer job? |
| 14. What sort of business does the company you worked for in summer do? |
| 15. Which tutor do you like? Why? |
| 16. Which course do you like? Why? |
| 17. Which course do you hate? Why? |
| 18. How did you handle conflict between you and your partners? |
| 19. Why don't you take part in extra-curricular activities? |
| 20. Please describe your position and duties in the Strategic Investment Society. |
| 21. What did you learn from the Outward Bound Activities? |
| 22. How did you solve your problem in the Outward Bound activities? |
| 23. What is the usual assignment given to you in your summer jobs? |
| 24. Why are your high school reuslts so good, but not your university studies? |
| 25. Can you explain why your GPA dropped substantially in the last semester? |
| 26. Tell the details about your trip to Beijing. |
| 27. How was the trip to Beijing? |
| 28. What do people do in this club? |
| 29. What have you learnt in the summer job? |
| 30. Why did you take French studies as your minor? |
| 31. What do you think about the French language course you took in France? |
| 32. Did you try a lot of French food? |
| 33. Did you meet a lot of people in this activity? |
| 34. How about the trip to Guangdong village? |
| 35. Tell me something about your two most recent employment. |
| 36. What did you do as the Finanical Secretary of the Residence Committee? |
| 37. Did the committee organize any activities? |
| 38. Which activity was the greatest success? |
| 39. Why did you make the decision to give up the degree programme in Xiamen? |
| 40. What were the difficulties you faced when you came to Hong Kong as a F.4 student? |
| 41. Can you describe your summer job? |
| 42. What is your most favourite subject? Why? |
| 43. What is your most undesirable course? Why? |
| 44. Which of the summer jobs do you like most? Why? What do you think about the company? What are their weaknesses? What are the contributing factors to its success? |
| 45. Which extra-curricular activity do you enjoy most? |
| 46. What is the most important decision you have made? |
| 47. What is the decision that leaves you most regretted making? |
| 48. How did you deal with difficulties in team work as a leader? Give concrete examples. |
| 49. How do you set your goals? Give an example to show how you set the goal and achieved it. |
| 50. Describe an incident that required you to make modifications or changes in you own behaviour. |
| 51. What did you do when facing opposition from others? Give examples. |
| 52. What courses have you taken as electives in the university? Why did you take them? |
| 53. Have you done any group projects? If yes, what are they about? |
| 54. Do you know how to speak Mandarin? |
| 55. What's the strength and weakness of the company for which you worked last summer? |
| 56. Tell me something about the company you worked for. |
| 58. Introduce a project you have done. |
Knowledge
| 1. In what way is CUHK different from other tertiary institutions? What criteria will you be using when evaluating CUHK? |
| 2. What is the role of a manager and that of a partner? |
| 3. A partner is like running a business. Then, is there any conflict between this role and his profession? |
| 4. How do you compare the ability between graduates in Hong Kong and mainland China? |
| 5. Tell me what people in Hong Kong can do to maintain the city's success. |
| 6. Do you think Shanghai will replace Hong Kong in the near future? |
| 7. Do you think business knowledge is important? |
| 8. How do you rank CUHK, HKU and UST? Why? |
| 9. What is the difference between a small local firm and a multi-national organization like the company that you worked for. Any differences in their management philosophy? What are the threats and opportunities? |
| 10. What do you think are the qualities of candidates we are looking for? |
| 11. What do you know about our company? |
| 12. What do you think is the reason we do not have a subsidiary in Xiamen? |
| 13. Do you think it is a suitable time for us to set up a subisdiary in Fujian when the relationship between Taiwan and China is not so good? |
| 14. What is team work? |
| 15. How do you feel about our company? |
| 16. What do you think about the future development of our company? |
| 17. In your opinion, what is Internet's impact on business? |
| 18. Which city do you think is the competitor for Hong Kong? |
| 19. What is the advantage of Hong Kong as compared with Singapore? |
Current Affairs
| 1. What is your opinion about the Hong Kong government's behaviour in the financial crisis? |
| 2. What will you suggest for the Hong Kong economy to revive? |
| 3. What do you think about the recent economic downturn? |
| 4. How do you keep up with current issues? |
| 5. Which newspapers do you read? |
| 6. Do you read SCMP? |
| 7. What's the headline of today's SCMP? |
| 8. What's the influence of the Asian financial crisis on the company which you worked for in summer? |
| 9. Do you read any economic journal? |
| 10. What's your viewpoint towards the government's action in the Asian financial crisis? |
| 11. What's your opinion on the Asian financial crisis? |
| 12. Why has the Hong Kong interest rate been raised during the Asian financial crisis? |
| 13. What is the current affair that you have paid attention to lately? What is your opinion on it? |