{"id":482,"date":"2025-02-14T09:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/?page_id=482"},"modified":"2025-02-14T09:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:09:56","slug":"sample-interview-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/job-search\/prepare-for-an-interview\/sample-interview-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample Interview Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Sample Interview Questions\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"information-based\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Information Based<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tell me about yourself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you know about our company?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why did you decide to pursue your degree?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are your greatest strengths?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is one of your weaknesses?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are some of your long-term career goals?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"behavioural\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Behavioural<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Describe a situation where you used communication skills to successfully get someone to see things your way.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Describe a time when you were faced with a stressful situation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give a specific example when you used good judgement and logic in solving a problem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give an example of a time when you had to multi task.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give an example of a time you showed initiative.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give an example of a time when you motivated others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Describe a time when you were faces with a problem and how you went about solving it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"situational\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Situational<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If someone in another department wanted you to create an application that was technically impossible, what would you say to the individual and how would you remedy the situation?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If a co-worker was not completing their work and the team was falling behind on a project, what would you do?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you were asked to complete projects from multiple supervisors at conflicting time periods, what would you do?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Based Behavioural Situational<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"parent":178,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[14],"class_list":["post-482","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}