Washington D.C. Mock Interview Questions
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. What are your strengths?
3. What are your weaknesses?
4. Why do you want to take this trip?
5. Where would you like to be doing five years from now?
6. What attracted you to apply for this trip to DC?
7. Why should we take you?
8. Do you have any questions for us?
9. Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty either at school, home or work.
10. Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight? How did you handle it?
11. Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it?
12. What is your greatest failure/success, and what did you learn from it?
13. What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it?
14. Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job.
15. Was there a person who has really made a difference in your life? How?
16. What kind of personality do you work best with and why?
17. What are you most proud of?
18. What do you like to do?
19. What is your lifelong dream?
20. What do you ultimately want to become?
21. What are three positive things your parents/teachers would say about you?
22. What negative thing would your parents/teachers say about you?
23. What three character traits would your friends use to describe you?
24. If you were interviewing someone for this position, what traits would you look for?
25. What is your greatest fear?
26. What is your biggest regret and why?
27. What's the most important thing you learned in school so far?
28. What are the qualities of a good leader?
29. What do you like to do for fun?
30. What do you do in your spare time?