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How would your friends describe you? |
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Give me three words to describe yourself. |
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Tell me about yourself. |
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What would you like me to know about you that is not on your resume? |
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What are the three most important events of your life? |
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What were you doing during this gap of time I see here on your resume? |
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Where did you grow up? |
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What are your three major accomplishments? |
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What was an experience in your life that you would want to go back and change? |
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Tell me something about your father’s business. |
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What new goals have you established for yourself recently? |
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What are your five to ten year career goals? |
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What are your career and educational goals? |
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What are the attributes of an ideal job for you? If you could do “it” all over again, what would you do differently? |
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What are you looking for? |
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How long a commitment do you plan to give me? |
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What is your ideal job? |
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What other types of positions are you considering? |
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What kind of boss would you prefer? |
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Why are you pursuing this field? |
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What would you like your lasting impression to be? |
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Do you have a final statement? |
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What are your career options right now? |
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How could you have improved your career path? |
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What salary are you expecting? In addition to salary, what benefits would most interest you? |
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What does “success” mean to you? |
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What does “failure” mean to you? |
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Which is more important to you: money or the type of job? |
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Who do you admire? Why? |
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What do you get passionate about? |
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Did you get an offer from the firm you worked for this summer? |
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Do you have other offers? Why would/wouldn’t you take our offer over one of the others? |
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What can you tell me about your past bosses? |
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How do you think a former supervisor would describe your work? |
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What did you enjoy most about your last employment? Least?
Nature creates ability, luck endows it with opportunity. |
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Management / Leadership Style |
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What is your management philosophy? |
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Define leadership. |
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Tell me about a time when you successfully resolved a conflict. |
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What two attributes are most important in your job? |
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Give an example of a situation in which you provided a solution to an employer. |
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Give an example of a time in which you worked under deadline pressure. |
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Name a point in your life where you turned a negative into a positive. |
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Tell me about a decision you have made that you later regretted. |
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What kind of boss would you prefer? |
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How do you feel about working overtime? |
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Give me an example of how you manage multiple projects. |
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Strengths / Weaknesses and Skills |
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Are you creative? Give me an example. What have you done that you consider creative? |
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What are your strongest abilities? |
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What is your biggest weakness? |
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Why should we take you? |
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Give me an example of something that you have done that shows initiative. |
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What makes you stand out among your fellow students? |
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What makes you different from the other candidates for this position? |
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How do your skills relate to our needs? What can you offer us? |
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What major problem have you encountered and how did you deal with it? |
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Have you ever had any failures? What did you learn from them? |
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How do you feel about working in a structured environment? |
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Are you able to work on several assignments at once? |
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In what kind of work environment do you do your best work? |
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What kinds of tasks and responsibilities motivate you the most? |
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What has been your greatest challenge? |
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How competitive are you? |
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How do you work under pressure? |
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Give me an example of a time when you successfully worked within a team. |
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What types of people seem to rub you the wrong way? |
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Define cooperation. |
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What kinds of people do you enjoy working with? |
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What kinds of people frustrate you? |
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Have you ever managed a conflict? How? |
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Have you ever spoken before a group of people? How large? |
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With what kind of people do you like to work? |
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Why did you decide to get an MBA? |
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Why our Institute? |
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What made you decide to major in? |
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Do you hold any leadership positions? |
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What electives have you taken? Which did you enjoy the most? |
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What college classes did you like the least? Why? |
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Why didn’t you attend (another school)? |
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How do you balance the different priorities MBA student life presents? |
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Did your grades accurately reflect your ability? Why/Why not? |
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Describe the course that has had the greatest impact on your thinking. |
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What extra-curricular school activities are you involved in? |
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What do you enjoy doing outside of work-in your free time? |
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What is your favorite book/movie/song/painting-or author/actor/singer/artist? |
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Which magazines/newspapers do you read regularly? Which books have you read recently? |
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Have you ever done volunteer activities?
Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break |
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Tell me a joke. |
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What if I told you that you’d work very hard, but recognition of your contributions would be nil? |
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What stocks do you recommend? Why? Should I buy stock in Netscape? |
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Where are interest rates going in the next 3 months? |
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How many new highs did the Dow reach last year? |
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If you could make a major policy change at our college, what would it be? |
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If you had six months ahead with no obligations and no financial constraints, what would you do? |
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If you could trade places with someone for a week, who would it be? |
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Sell me the desk. |
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Rate me as an interviewer. |
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Why MBA? Why not MCA? |
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What is marketing? Define the difference between marketing and advertising. |
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What does it take to be successful in marketing? |
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What are the attributes of a successful marketing campaign? How do you motivate others, particularly those over whom you have no direct authority? |
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How have you developed your interpersonal skills? |
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Give me a specific example of a time you solved a problem creatively? |
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What is the most important thing that you’ve learned about managing people from your previous work experience? |
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Rank order characteristics important for brand management. |
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Scenario: Create a plan to market Brand X in Bangalore. |
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What did you dislike about your former employer? |
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Give me a 30 second commercial about yourself. |
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Pick a good and bad ad campaign and discuss them. |
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Give an example of a well/managed product. |
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Pick a product and position it. |
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Give me an example of a leadership role you have had. Give me another one, give me another one, give me another one............ |
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| Corporate Finance (Investment Banking) |
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Why investment banking? Why this bank? |
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Why corporate finance as opposed to sales and trading? What are your outside activities? Why would you be willing to give them up for such a demanding job? |
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What role do you play in group situations? |
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What would you do if offered drugs as part of the deal? (or other ethically focused questions.) |
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How smart are you? How do we know how smart you are? |
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Sell us on your quantitative skills. |
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If we made you an offer today, would you take it? |
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What did the Dow, S&P or NASDAQ close at yesterday? |
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What stocks do you follow and why? |
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Rate me as an interviewer. |
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