Sample Interview Questions for Economics

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Students are encouraged to book an advising appointment for a mock interview to prepare for interviews, but you can also use these questions for self-study. You can book your advising appointment on campusBRIDGE.

You can also partner with a friend and they can ask you a sample question while you answer to practice interviewing.

  1. How has your education prepared you for this position? What courses have you taken that you feel are particularly relevant?  
  2. Why are you interested in this position and how does it fit with your career goals?
  3. Tell me about your experience with this type of work. 
  4. Give an example of a time that you had to work under pressure to meet a deadline. 
  5. How do you prioritize your work?
  6. Tell me about a time when you had to explain your technical work to a layman. Were they able to understand the work that you do after your explanation? If not, what could you have done to improve the clarity of your explanation?
  7. Tell me about a time when you received unwelcome advice on a project you were working on. How did you handle it? 
  8. Imagine this situation: a client approaches you with a request that is completely unrelated to your area of expertise. You do not have the answer and the request is not something that would be logically available in your organization. How do you respond? 
  9. Tell me about the last time someone asked you to resolve a problem. What was the issue? How was it resolved? 
  10. Describe a time you made an error in your work. What was the error? What action did you take? 
  11. Tell me about an assignment you worked on in which you had to amass a huge amount of data and analyze it.
  12. How do you make sure that you understand project priorities?
  13. Tell us about a time when you had to deal with a frustrated customer.
  14. Have you ever had to deal with a technical query where you weren’t sure of the answer? How did you deal with this situation? 
  15. Tell us about a time when you had to make a presentation with little or no preparation? What was the most difficult part? How did you handle it?
  16. Tell us about your most successful project.
  17. Give me an example of a time when you showed initiative or took the lead. 
  18. Tell me about a time when you had to persuade someone to make a change in their practices to improve a work-related task or process. 
  19. Tell me about a time when you worked with a classmate or colleague who was not doing their share of the work. How did you handle it?
  20. If I asked your supervisor about you, how would they describe you?
Updated March 2024