A Parent's Guide To Student Interview Questions
Below are examples of the kinds of questions your student may be asked in interviews for both internships and full time career opportunities. The Chase Career Center provides workshops, handouts and one-on-one meetings to help students prepare for interviews.
Types of Interview Styles:
Behavioral:
Interviewers ask behavioral questions in an attempt to predict future behavior based on past behavior. These questions will always ask the interviewee to provide an example that demonstrates a specific skill or aptitude.
- Describe a situation in which you were able to use persuasion to successfully convince someone to see things your way.
- Summarize a situation where you took the initiative to get others going on an important issue, and played a leading role to achieve the results wanted.
- Describe an instance when you had to think on your feet to extricate yourself from a difficult situation.
- Tell me about a time when you worked in a group situation and things were not going well. What did you do to make the situation better and what was the result of your efforts? Would you have done anything different based on the outcome? If so, what?
- Please give a specific example of how you utilized a strength to complete a task and when you worked on improving a weakness.
Resume:
Resume questions are based on the resume and require that interviewee is very comfortable talking about experiences written on the resume. While these questions may appear basic, successful answers to these questions highlight accomplishments and skills acquired in individual experiences. Or, they ask for logical reasoning about something such as "Why did you choose to major in finance?"
- What was the most important skill you learned at XY job?
- What type of experience do you have utilizing Dreamweaver software?
- Why did you choose the Isenberg School of Management?
Case:
This type of interview question is typically asked in fields such as consulting or financial firms to gain a sense of the applicant's problem solving and analytical skills. Interviewers are looking for an applicant's logical thought process, general business knowledge and acumen, comfort with quantitative analysis, creativity and communication skills.
There are several types of case questions including brain teasers, (example: why are man-hole covers round) market sizing (example: how many white washing machines were sold in Texas last year) and project (solving a situation a business is facing).
We strongly recommend students obtain additional, more thorough information at the Chase Career Center as they prepare for case interviews.
Case interview materials adapted from Guide to Case Interviewing from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
