Briefly explain your background as well as experience in this field?

This question is asked to get some initial basic information from the candidate like what is his/her educational background, and what expertise and experience he/she has in the field to measure their initial skill and knowledge level

2. Give two specific reasons that why are you leaving the current job?

This question is to get an idea of candidate’s approach towards job. This question will help to understand that candidate will provide an answer, which would define his/her personality like he/she talks anything negative about the previous company, or he/she is moving for a better future and growth.

3. Tell me one thing about a previous job that you would like to go back and do it differently than actually you did?

This question is a good one to know about the learning skills of a candidate. It is to know about his/her ability to proactively measure situations & processes, identify any improvement area so that candidate can do it better next time. Such questions will get a real idea about the potential and thinking approach of the candidate.

4. Briefly describe one situation, when you were having intense pressure of work from your supervisor along with having some difficult working relationship with him, how you handled the situation?

This question is very important to get an idea about the ability of a candidate to handle work pressure as well as issues at a workplace. It will give an appropriate idea about candidate whether he/she has the ability to handle pressure as some people are not able to perform well under pressure. Moreover, it would allow analyzing candidate’s ability to see what skills he/she has to resolve conflicts at workplace. Does his/her personality have the capability to cope up with such situations?

5. What was your biggest failure in your professional career? How you learned from it?

The primary objective of asking this question is to know that how much self awareness he/she has. The people who have self awareness, they do indentify their failures, and accept them with open hands, and then work hard to never experience those failures again. It would allow an interviewer to learn that what kind of personality is possessed by the candidate.

6. Are you looking to continue your personal as well as professional development by learning new knowledge and skills?

This question is very crucial to ask because it allows indentifying approach towards new job. There are people who think that they have learned enough and they are maybe perfect for the job and don’t need any further development. Such candidates cannot be selected who are not willing to learn and develop in the future. The best candidate will answer this question by showing his willingness to learn and develop more as much as possible.

7. Tell me one of your biggest strength, which distinguish you from others?

It is often predicted by candidates that they will be asked about their biggest weakness, and they do prepare for this question. But this particular question about biggest strength will change the whole scenario, and will allow measuring the ability of a candidate to cope up with a different question than his/her expectation. It would allow getting an idea that how much personal knowledge and self awareness he/she has about his/her strengths

8. Briefly describe your critical skills that you used to be successful in your previous work roles that you handled?

This question is very important one to ask to see that how many skills were used by the candidate and in what ways to be successful in his/her previous job roles. It would provide a brief idea about his/her knowledge and skill set. It would give an idea whether he/she has relevant skills, which are necessary to do this current job.

9. If you are asked to tell one specific reason that why should we hire you? Then what it would be?

This question is very interesting one to ask to know the ability of a candidate to come up with some concrete idea about his/her personality. It would allow getting a viable reason from candidate to be selected for current job. Or a candidate may come up with a reason, which does not looks considerable at all.

10. Where do you see yourself in this company in next 3 to 5 years?

This question is one of the important questions to ask to see overall approach of a candidate. There can be candidates, who may have short term and very little goals to achieve in their next job. But there can be candidates, who see their future beyond just salary objectives. It allows getting an idea about a vision and long term approach of a candidate that what vision he/she ahs about his future endeavors.