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.
- Please describe your past work experience to me. I am particularly interested in learning about experiences that are relevant to this position.
- How has your education prepared you for this position? What courses have you taken that you feel are particularly relevant?
- What are your career goals for the next five years? What have you done to accomplish them?
- In previous projects you contributed to, what was your usual role? How would you prepare for greater responsibility?
- What does it mean to have good communication skills?
- Tell me about a time when you faced many obstacles in achieving your goal.
- Tell me about a time when you worked as part of a multidisciplinary team. What level of accountability did you hold on this project? What did you learn from the experience?
- Tell me about a time that you had to explain a concept to someone who speaks a different language. What were you explaining? How did you explain it? Were you successful? What did you learn? What would you do differently next time?
- Tell me about a time when you missed a deadline on a project.
- Tell us about a time when you had a conflict with a co-worker. What was the outcome?
- Tell us about a time when you worked on a team that was not able to cooperate. What was your role? What was the outcome of the projects that this team worked on?
- You are reviewing a manuscript for publication when you begin to get a sense that you have read this before. You search online and find that part of the manuscript is identical to an online article written 4 years ago. What do you do?
- Describe your ideal work environment.
- Tell me about a recent project that you worked on that you are proud of.
- Tell me about a time when you were the lead or supervisor of a project. What was the project? What was the main difficulty for completing this project and were you able to manage it?
- Tell us about a time when you worked on a remote project with minimal supervision.
- What experience do you have with test preparation, question writing, and student assessment?
- Have you ever created learning outcomes and taught a class where you needed to achieve the learning outcome? What did you learn from the experience that will inform your practice?
- Suppose you are collaborating in an interdisciplinary team and one of the team members begins completing some of your responsibilities. Over the next few days, this individual continues to complete your task, which he/she is not an expert in. How do you deal with this situation?
- What programming languages do you have experience with?
Updated April 2024