Interview Questions
1. Describe a recent leadership experience.
2. Which classes have you enjoyed the most? The least? Why?
3. Describe your most rewarding AND most challenging school experience.
4. What do you consider to be your greatest strengths?
5. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
6. Describe a time you failed at something and how you handled it?
7. What three keywords would your peers use to describe you, and why?
8. Tell me about an important goal that you set in the past. Were you successful? Why?
9. Tell me about something you have done that is very creative.
10. Describe a time when you were faced with problems or stress that tested your coping skills. What did you do?
11. Describe your best three key skills or qualities.
12. In which hospital, city, and state were you born?
13. Tell me about your family.
14. Do you play sports or participate in any extracurricular activities? What are they and how long have you been doing it?
15. What type of movies, music, or books do you like? Give me some examples of your favorites.
16. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why?
17. If you could meet anybody and sit down and hang out with them…Ask them questions…see what they are/or were really all about…who would you meet?
18. If you could go witness any moment (or time period) in history, what would you want to see?
19. What do you want to do after high school? Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten years? Twenty years? What do you dream about accomplishing some day?
20. What college do you want to attend?
21. What is your most extreme fear?
22. Describe your favorite t-shirt. Why do you like it?
23. What is your favorite subject in school? Why?
24. What kind of car do you want to own when you grow up?
25. What is your favorite type of music? Who is your favorite singer? What is your
favorite song?
26. What do you do in your leisure time?
27. What is your favorite book genre? Why? Who is your favorite author? Your favorite book?
28. If you could be anyone or anything for 1 day, who or what would it be? Why?
29. If you had money to help anyone or any group of people in the world, who would
you help and how would you help them?
30. If you lived in colonial days, would you fight for the British or the colonists? Why?
31. If you had 3 wishes, what would they be?
32. If you had 1 day that you could do absolutely anything that you wanted,
what would you do?
33. What is your favorite tv show? Why? Who is your favorite actor or actress?
34. What is your favorite sport?
35. Where would you go if you could travel anywhere in the world? Why?
36. Where is your favorite store to shop?
37. Where do you want to live when you grown up? Why?
38. What is your favorite place to go out to eat? Why?
39. If you could meet anyone living now or in the past, who would that be? Why?
What would you say to them or what question would you ask them?
40. At what point did you know what you wanted to do for a job? How did you get started in that field? What type of education did you need?
41. What is your biggest regret in life? Why?
42. What is your proudest moment in life? Why?