Practice Interview Questions - Career Guide | Current Students - Tippie College of Business

Tell me about yourself.
If I were to speak with your former supervisor, what would they say are your greatest strengths, and what are areas of needed improvement? What would your classmates tell me about you?
What is the biggest risk you have ever taken?
What is unique about you? What can you bring to our company that other candidates cannot?
Tell me something about you that I would not learn by reading your resume.

Tell me about a time when you discovered a more efficient way to complete a task. Tell me about a task that tested your analytical abilities.
Tell me about a tricky situation for which you found a simple solution.
Have you ever been in a real dilemma at work? What did you do to get out of it?
Tell me about an assignment you worked on in which you had to amass a huge amount of data and then analyze it.
Can you tell me about a situation where your analysis of a problem was deemed to be incorrect? What would you have done differently?

Describe a time when you reprimanded an employee for poor performance. What was the outcome? How do you motivate subordinates?
Tell me about a situation at work in which you led a team well. Tell me about a time when you mentored someone. What leader do you most admire and why?
What was your most significant leadership experience? What five qualities do you feel define great leadership? Tell me about your most significant leadership experience.
Describe one experience when you had to lead a team.
How do you keep each member of the team involved and motivated while keeping morale high?
Describe the steps you take to achieve this. In what situations do you prefer to use your leadership skills? Can you give me examples?

How often do you discuss and work with colleagues to think up new systems and styles of working?
Imagine you could trade places with anyone for just a week. The person could be famous or not famous, living or from history, real or fictional. With whom would you trade places?
If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?
If you had to be shipwrecked on a deserted island, but all your human needs - such as food and water - were taken care of, what two items would you want to have with you?
If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be and why?

How would your co-workers describe your communication style? Give me an example of a time when you had to sell an idea.
Tell me about a time when your opinion was challenged. How did you manage it?
Describe a time when you had to convince a person or group to re-evaluate their decision.
Describe your presentation skills and experience.
Describe five things about the communication within an organization that must be present for you to work most effectively.
When you have entered a new workplace in the past, describe how you have gone about meeting and developing relationships with your new coworkers, supervisors, and reporting staff.

Please share what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to you and why they are important.
What is your approach to understanding the perspectives of colleagues from diverse backgrounds?
Tell me about a time when you advocated for diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Tell me about a time you adapted your style to work effectively with those who were different from you.