What are the general questions to be asked to a candidate by an HR person to judge his qualities?
If anybody has a set of questions, please forward them to me.
Thanks and regards..
From India, Hubli
1If anybody has a set of questions, please forward them to me.
Thanks and regards..
From India, Hubli
You can use these questions for it :
STRENGTHS
1. What key factors have accounted for your career success to date?
2. What do you consider to be some of your most outstanding qualities?
3. What is your greatest strength or asset?
4. In what areas have others been particularly complimentary about your abilities? Why?
5. During past performance reviews, what have been consistently cited as your major assets? Why?
6. From a performance standpoint, what do you consider your major attributes?
7. If I were to check your references with two or three of your co-workers, in what areas would they describe you as particularly effective?
8. In viewing your candidacy for this position, in what areas do you feel you would be a particularly strong performer? Why?
9. Describe your three greatest strengths and tell me how you used them to bring about improvements in your job?
10. What two or three major accomplishments best demonstrate your key strengths?
11. In what ways are your qualifications unique or distinctive?
12. What do your co-workers most admire about you? Why?
13. What would your current boss describe as your three greatest assets? Why?
14. When compared with other members of your department, where do you most excel?
15. In what areas can others totally rely on your ability?
16. What would a thorough reference check reveal as your strongest attributes?
17. During the past two years, in what aspect of your work have you most excelled?
18. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being ’non-existent’, 10 being ‘without peer’), which of your qualifications would you rate at the 9 and 10 level?
19. If you had to cite a single skill or attribute that has most contributed to your career success, what would it be? Why?
20. Describe how your major accomplishments demonstrate your ability to effectively use some of your key strengths and capabilities.
WEAKNESSES/ IMPROVEMENT AREAS
1. What has been your single biggest work-related failure to date? Why?
2. From a work standpoint, what has been your biggest shortcoming? Why?
3. Each of us has areas where we could improve performance. In what areas could you improve your overall performance?
4. What areas have been suggested to you for improvement by your current boss?
5. As you view your overall qualifications for this position, what do you see as some of your development needs?
6. What aspect of your overall capabilities would you most like to improve?
7. What steps have you taken in the past year to improve your overall performance? Why?
8. From an overall effectiveness standpoint, what would you most like to improve that would enhance your value to your employer?
9. During a thorough reference check, what areas can we expect to find where your overall performance and effectiveness might be improved?
10. During past performance reviews, what are some of the areas that have been identified for improvement?
11. In what ways could you improve your overall job performance?
12. In what ways could you improve your effectiveness with others?
13. What would you cite as the three areas of your performance that could most be improved?
14. What aspects of your current position could be better performed, and what kind of improvement could be made?
15. If we asked two or three of your peers who know you well, to be somewhat critical of your performance, what two or three improvement areas would they likely identify? Why?
16. If you could, what two things would you most like to change about yourself to improve your overall effectiveness – and why?
17. What are you currently doing to improve your overall performance?
18. In what ways could you improve your interpersonal skills and effectiveness?
19. In what ways could you enhance your overall professional capability?
20. What aspect of your overall qualifications has most stood in the way of your career advancement to date?
JOB PERFORMANCE
1. Tell me about your recent salary increases – how well did they reflect your performance and contributions?
2. In what ways has your job changed since you first entered the function?
3. What do you consider your two or three most significant accomplishments? In your current position? Since joining your current company? In your career?
4. In checking your references, what would your boss tell me about your performance? What aspects of the job would he or she say you perform well? What areas would he or she indicate could be improved?
5. If I talked with two or three of your peers who work closely with you and are most familiar with your work, what would they cite as: Your biggest contributions to the department or function? One or two areas where you could improve your overall performance?
6. What have been your last 3 performance evaluation ratings, why?
7. In what areas does your performance excel?
8. In what areas could your overall performance be most improved?
9. Of which job accomplishments are you most proud? Why?
10. Of which performance factors are you least proud? Why?
11. What were your key job objectives during this past year, and how well did you perform against each?
12. What evidence can you cite to support your overall effectiveness during this past year?
13. With what aspects of your current performance are you least satisfied? What kind of improvement could be realised? What are you doing to improve in these areas?
14. What key accomplishments can you cite that suggest you are an excellent candidate for this position?
15. Of which of your accomplishments are you most proud? Why?
16. If we asked your fellow workers to rate your overall performance on a scale or 1 to 10 (1 low, 5 average, 10 outstanding), where do you feel they would rate you? Why? What factors would they rate high? Why? What factors would they rate low? Why?
17. Based on how you feel your boss would rate your current job performance, what areas would he or she cite as: Exceeding expectations? Why? Meeting expectations? Falling short of expectations? Why?
18. What key accomplishments best exemplify your overall qualifications for this job?
19. How does your performance compare with that of others in your department? Where do you excel? Where could you improve?
20. As you review your overall performance during the past year: Of which accomplishments are you most proud? Of which of your accomplishments are you least proud? Why? How would you categorise the quantity of your work? Why? How would you categorise the quality of your work? Why?
21. What basic values and beliefs do you feel are important to good performance?
22. What do you believe about the basic values and beliefs of poor performers?
23. What do they have in common?
24. Contrast the values and beliefs of good performers with those of poor performers. In what ways are they different? What distinguishes good performers? What distinguishes poor performers?
25. What basis do you use for measuring your own performance?
26. What aspects of your job performance are you least satisfied with, and what are you doing about it?
27. What things are you currently doing to improve your overall performance and results?
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
1. With what kind of people do you most enjoy working? Why?
2. With what kind of people do you have difficulty working? Why?
3. Describe your relationship with your past boss. In what areas did you agree? In what areas did you disagree? Why? What did you do to resolve your differences?
4. With which of your past work groups did you most enjoy working?
5. What factors most influenced your positive feelings?
6. With which of your past work groups did you least enjoy working? What accounted for your lack of enjoyment? What did you do about it? What was the outcome?
7. How would you describe your relationships with others outside your immediate department? Why?
8. Tell me about a time when you had a major conflict with another employee. What was the cause of the conflict? What things did you do to alleviate the problem? What were the results?
9. In which of your past positions did you feel most comfortable (had a sense of belonging or fitting in the group)?
10. In which of your past positions did you feel least comfortable (had a sense of not belonging of fitting in the group)? What contributed to your uneasiness? What did you do to ease these feelings?
11. If, during a reference check, I asked your boss to describe your interpersonal skills, what would he or she likely tell me about your overall effectiveness with others? What aspects of your interpersonal skills would he or she rate as particularly effective? What aspects of your interpersonal effectiveness would he or she cite as needing improvement? Why?
12. What aspects of your interpersonal skills should you most like to improve? Why?
13. When confronted by someone who is particularly angry with you, what do you do?
14. If someone is continuously critical of you and appears not to like you, what do you do?
15. If you sense you are not fitting in well with a group and feel that you are being treated as an outsider, what would you do?
16. What examples can you cite that best demonstrate your ability to relate well to others?
17. In which of your past positions did you feel most isolated and alone? What caused you to feel this way? What did you do about it?
18. What could you do that would most improve your effectiveness with others?
19. Which of your skills would you rate higher? Your technical skills? Your interpersonal skills? Why?
20. Do you feel it is more important to be: Well liked by others? Admired for being effective? Why?
PREFERRED TYPE OF WORK
1. From a job content standpoint, which of your past positions did you enjoy most? Why?
2. From a job content standpoint, which of your past positions did you least enjoy? Why?
3. What type of work do you find most stimulating and rewarding? Why?
4. What type of work do you find least stimulating and rewarding? Why?
5. Which of your past positions provided the most interesting challenges? What were these challenges? What made them interesting?
6. Which of your past positions did you find least challenging? Why did you find it unchallenging? What factors influenced your feelings?
7. How would you describe the type of work you most like to do?
8. How would you categorise the kind of work you least like doing?
9. How would you compare the type of work you did at that Company with the work you did at this Company? Which work did you like most? Why? Which work did you like least? Why?
10. In which of your past positions were you most motivated and productive? What work factors accounted for this motivation? What factors most affected your positive feelings? The absence of what factors enhanced your positive outlook?
11. What type of work do you find most satisfying from a professional standpoint?
12. What type of work do you find least satisfying from a professional standpoint?
13. What have you learned from your past work experience about the type of work you most enjoy doing?
14. What has your experience taught you about the type of work you least enjoy doing?
15. What aspects of your position as so and so at that Company did you find particularly enjoyable? Why?
16. What aspects of your position did you find least satisfying? Why?
17. With what aspects of your job at that company were you most comfortable? Why?
18. With what aspects of your job at that company were you least comfortable? Why?
19. From a job content standpoint, what factors most influence your level of job satisfaction? What factors enhance job satisfaction? What factors detract from job satisfaction?
20. How would you describe the ‘ideal job’ from a work content standpoint?
PERSONAL SELF - TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS (All of these questions are to be asked only in the context of job and work effectiveness – not impact on personal life).
1. How would you describe yourself?
2. What five or six adjectives best describe you?
3. If we had three or four of your close associates with us and asked them to describe you, what would they likely say?
4. If we asked your current manager to list three or four of your positive traits and characteristics, what would he or she say?
5. If we asked the same manager to describe those traits and characteristics he or she finds less pleasing, what would he or she say?
6. What words best describe your personal style?
7. Which of your personal traits and characteristics have been helpful in your career?
8. Which of your personal traits and characteristics do you feel have most hindered your career progress?
9. In past performance reviews, which of your personal traits and characteristics have often been cited as strengths?
10. In past performance evaluations, which of your personal traits and characteristics have been cited as areas for improvement?
11. In your most intimate conversations with family and / or close friends, what have people said they most like about you?
12. In similar confidential conversations, what aspects of your personal style have been suggested as areas for improvement?
13. Which of your traits and characteristics do you find most frustrating?
14. Of which of your personal traits and characteristics are you most proud, and why?
15. Of which of your personal traits and characteristics are you least proud, and why?
16. What is there about yourself that you would most like to change? How would you change? Why?
17. Which of your personal traits and characteristics most enhance your effectiveness in dealing with others?
18. Which of your traits and characteristics sometimes get in the way of your relationships with others?
19. What of your personal traits and characteristics best suit you for this particular job?
20. To what aspects of your personal style are you most sensitive and try continuously to improve?
From India, Gurgaon
STRENGTHS
1. What key factors have accounted for your career success to date?
2. What do you consider to be some of your most outstanding qualities?
3. What is your greatest strength or asset?
4. In what areas have others been particularly complimentary about your abilities? Why?
5. During past performance reviews, what have been consistently cited as your major assets? Why?
6. From a performance standpoint, what do you consider your major attributes?
7. If I were to check your references with two or three of your co-workers, in what areas would they describe you as particularly effective?
8. In viewing your candidacy for this position, in what areas do you feel you would be a particularly strong performer? Why?
9. Describe your three greatest strengths and tell me how you used them to bring about improvements in your job?
10. What two or three major accomplishments best demonstrate your key strengths?
11. In what ways are your qualifications unique or distinctive?
12. What do your co-workers most admire about you? Why?
13. What would your current boss describe as your three greatest assets? Why?
14. When compared with other members of your department, where do you most excel?
15. In what areas can others totally rely on your ability?
16. What would a thorough reference check reveal as your strongest attributes?
17. During the past two years, in what aspect of your work have you most excelled?
18. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being ’non-existent’, 10 being ‘without peer’), which of your qualifications would you rate at the 9 and 10 level?
19. If you had to cite a single skill or attribute that has most contributed to your career success, what would it be? Why?
20. Describe how your major accomplishments demonstrate your ability to effectively use some of your key strengths and capabilities.
WEAKNESSES/ IMPROVEMENT AREAS
1. What has been your single biggest work-related failure to date? Why?
2. From a work standpoint, what has been your biggest shortcoming? Why?
3. Each of us has areas where we could improve performance. In what areas could you improve your overall performance?
4. What areas have been suggested to you for improvement by your current boss?
5. As you view your overall qualifications for this position, what do you see as some of your development needs?
6. What aspect of your overall capabilities would you most like to improve?
7. What steps have you taken in the past year to improve your overall performance? Why?
8. From an overall effectiveness standpoint, what would you most like to improve that would enhance your value to your employer?
9. During a thorough reference check, what areas can we expect to find where your overall performance and effectiveness might be improved?
10. During past performance reviews, what are some of the areas that have been identified for improvement?
11. In what ways could you improve your overall job performance?
12. In what ways could you improve your effectiveness with others?
13. What would you cite as the three areas of your performance that could most be improved?
14. What aspects of your current position could be better performed, and what kind of improvement could be made?
15. If we asked two or three of your peers who know you well, to be somewhat critical of your performance, what two or three improvement areas would they likely identify? Why?
16. If you could, what two things would you most like to change about yourself to improve your overall effectiveness – and why?
17. What are you currently doing to improve your overall performance?
18. In what ways could you improve your interpersonal skills and effectiveness?
19. In what ways could you enhance your overall professional capability?
20. What aspect of your overall qualifications has most stood in the way of your career advancement to date?
JOB PERFORMANCE
1. Tell me about your recent salary increases – how well did they reflect your performance and contributions?
2. In what ways has your job changed since you first entered the function?
3. What do you consider your two or three most significant accomplishments? In your current position? Since joining your current company? In your career?
4. In checking your references, what would your boss tell me about your performance? What aspects of the job would he or she say you perform well? What areas would he or she indicate could be improved?
5. If I talked with two or three of your peers who work closely with you and are most familiar with your work, what would they cite as: Your biggest contributions to the department or function? One or two areas where you could improve your overall performance?
6. What have been your last 3 performance evaluation ratings, why?
7. In what areas does your performance excel?
8. In what areas could your overall performance be most improved?
9. Of which job accomplishments are you most proud? Why?
10. Of which performance factors are you least proud? Why?
11. What were your key job objectives during this past year, and how well did you perform against each?
12. What evidence can you cite to support your overall effectiveness during this past year?
13. With what aspects of your current performance are you least satisfied? What kind of improvement could be realised? What are you doing to improve in these areas?
14. What key accomplishments can you cite that suggest you are an excellent candidate for this position?
15. Of which of your accomplishments are you most proud? Why?
16. If we asked your fellow workers to rate your overall performance on a scale or 1 to 10 (1 low, 5 average, 10 outstanding), where do you feel they would rate you? Why? What factors would they rate high? Why? What factors would they rate low? Why?
17. Based on how you feel your boss would rate your current job performance, what areas would he or she cite as: Exceeding expectations? Why? Meeting expectations? Falling short of expectations? Why?
18. What key accomplishments best exemplify your overall qualifications for this job?
19. How does your performance compare with that of others in your department? Where do you excel? Where could you improve?
20. As you review your overall performance during the past year: Of which accomplishments are you most proud? Of which of your accomplishments are you least proud? Why? How would you categorise the quantity of your work? Why? How would you categorise the quality of your work? Why?
21. What basic values and beliefs do you feel are important to good performance?
22. What do you believe about the basic values and beliefs of poor performers?
23. What do they have in common?
24. Contrast the values and beliefs of good performers with those of poor performers. In what ways are they different? What distinguishes good performers? What distinguishes poor performers?
25. What basis do you use for measuring your own performance?
26. What aspects of your job performance are you least satisfied with, and what are you doing about it?
27. What things are you currently doing to improve your overall performance and results?
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
1. With what kind of people do you most enjoy working? Why?
2. With what kind of people do you have difficulty working? Why?
3. Describe your relationship with your past boss. In what areas did you agree? In what areas did you disagree? Why? What did you do to resolve your differences?
4. With which of your past work groups did you most enjoy working?
5. What factors most influenced your positive feelings?
6. With which of your past work groups did you least enjoy working? What accounted for your lack of enjoyment? What did you do about it? What was the outcome?
7. How would you describe your relationships with others outside your immediate department? Why?
8. Tell me about a time when you had a major conflict with another employee. What was the cause of the conflict? What things did you do to alleviate the problem? What were the results?
9. In which of your past positions did you feel most comfortable (had a sense of belonging or fitting in the group)?
10. In which of your past positions did you feel least comfortable (had a sense of not belonging of fitting in the group)? What contributed to your uneasiness? What did you do to ease these feelings?
11. If, during a reference check, I asked your boss to describe your interpersonal skills, what would he or she likely tell me about your overall effectiveness with others? What aspects of your interpersonal skills would he or she rate as particularly effective? What aspects of your interpersonal effectiveness would he or she cite as needing improvement? Why?
12. What aspects of your interpersonal skills should you most like to improve? Why?
13. When confronted by someone who is particularly angry with you, what do you do?
14. If someone is continuously critical of you and appears not to like you, what do you do?
15. If you sense you are not fitting in well with a group and feel that you are being treated as an outsider, what would you do?
16. What examples can you cite that best demonstrate your ability to relate well to others?
17. In which of your past positions did you feel most isolated and alone? What caused you to feel this way? What did you do about it?
18. What could you do that would most improve your effectiveness with others?
19. Which of your skills would you rate higher? Your technical skills? Your interpersonal skills? Why?
20. Do you feel it is more important to be: Well liked by others? Admired for being effective? Why?
PREFERRED TYPE OF WORK
1. From a job content standpoint, which of your past positions did you enjoy most? Why?
2. From a job content standpoint, which of your past positions did you least enjoy? Why?
3. What type of work do you find most stimulating and rewarding? Why?
4. What type of work do you find least stimulating and rewarding? Why?
5. Which of your past positions provided the most interesting challenges? What were these challenges? What made them interesting?
6. Which of your past positions did you find least challenging? Why did you find it unchallenging? What factors influenced your feelings?
7. How would you describe the type of work you most like to do?
8. How would you categorise the kind of work you least like doing?
9. How would you compare the type of work you did at that Company with the work you did at this Company? Which work did you like most? Why? Which work did you like least? Why?
10. In which of your past positions were you most motivated and productive? What work factors accounted for this motivation? What factors most affected your positive feelings? The absence of what factors enhanced your positive outlook?
11. What type of work do you find most satisfying from a professional standpoint?
12. What type of work do you find least satisfying from a professional standpoint?
13. What have you learned from your past work experience about the type of work you most enjoy doing?
14. What has your experience taught you about the type of work you least enjoy doing?
15. What aspects of your position as so and so at that Company did you find particularly enjoyable? Why?
16. What aspects of your position did you find least satisfying? Why?
17. With what aspects of your job at that company were you most comfortable? Why?
18. With what aspects of your job at that company were you least comfortable? Why?
19. From a job content standpoint, what factors most influence your level of job satisfaction? What factors enhance job satisfaction? What factors detract from job satisfaction?
20. How would you describe the ‘ideal job’ from a work content standpoint?
PERSONAL SELF - TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS (All of these questions are to be asked only in the context of job and work effectiveness – not impact on personal life).
1. How would you describe yourself?
2. What five or six adjectives best describe you?
3. If we had three or four of your close associates with us and asked them to describe you, what would they likely say?
4. If we asked your current manager to list three or four of your positive traits and characteristics, what would he or she say?
5. If we asked the same manager to describe those traits and characteristics he or she finds less pleasing, what would he or she say?
6. What words best describe your personal style?
7. Which of your personal traits and characteristics have been helpful in your career?
8. Which of your personal traits and characteristics do you feel have most hindered your career progress?
9. In past performance reviews, which of your personal traits and characteristics have often been cited as strengths?
10. In past performance evaluations, which of your personal traits and characteristics have been cited as areas for improvement?
11. In your most intimate conversations with family and / or close friends, what have people said they most like about you?
12. In similar confidential conversations, what aspects of your personal style have been suggested as areas for improvement?
13. Which of your traits and characteristics do you find most frustrating?
14. Of which of your personal traits and characteristics are you most proud, and why?
15. Of which of your personal traits and characteristics are you least proud, and why?
16. What is there about yourself that you would most like to change? How would you change? Why?
17. Which of your personal traits and characteristics most enhance your effectiveness in dealing with others?
18. Which of your traits and characteristics sometimes get in the way of your relationships with others?
19. What of your personal traits and characteristics best suit you for this particular job?
20. To what aspects of your personal style are you most sensitive and try continuously to improve?
From India, Gurgaon
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