recruitment questions for interview

1. RECRUTMENT QUESTIONS:
1. What attracted you to recruiting?
2. What's your educational background?
3. Other than a college degree, do you haveany additional qualifications or
certifications relevant to HR?
4. Do you keep up with recruiting trends? What's the most recent interesting
trend you'veread about?
5. How would you describeyour recruitment process?
6. What tools or data do you prefer to use as part of your job?
7. What are somejob titles you'verecruited in the past?
8. How do you feel the recruiting process has changed since you started?
9. How do you think the recruiting process will change in the next five years?
10.What types of data do you use to measure success?
11.How do you think you could improve our recruiting process?
12.How do you develop relationships with job candidates?
13.Describethe roles that you find mostchallenging to fill and why.
14.How would you feel aboutreaching out to a previous candidateabout a
new opportunity?
15.How many candidates have you successfully recruited during your time as a
recruiter?
16.What do you tell candidates who didn't get the job?
17.Describesome reasons a candidate would turn down an offer. Explain how
you would work to avoid this.
18.What was the hiring process at your lastjob like? Talk about what worked
well and how you could improveit.
19.Do you think it's important to update job candidates on their application
status proactively or do you wait for them to reach out?
20.How would you describeour company to a potential candidate based on
what you already know about us?
21.Describea time when you had to work with a challenging hiring manager
22.How do you foster a strong professionalrelationship with the job
candidates?

2. 23.What do you do when a qualified candidate's salary expectations don't
match what you can offer?
24.How do you keep track of your candidate pool?
25.What's been your greatestaccomplishment as a recruiter?
26.Why do you want to work at our company?
27.What are someof your hobbies outside of work?
28.What are somecommon challenges you'veovercomeas a recruiter?
29.Do you have questions for us?
EMOTIONAL QUESTIONS:
1. Has a work situation required you to change your behavior? If so, why, and how
did you change?
2. Have you ever been challenged by a co-worker, and how did you handle it?
3. How do you respond when a manager criticizes your work?
4. How do you recover from failure?
5. What kind of workplace behaviors anger or annoy you?
6. Tell me about a time when you had to be confrontational to achieve results. What
did you do, and how was it received?
7. What's your biggest achievement, and why?
8. How do you celebrate success?
9. Have you ever had to be the bearer of bad news?
10. If you started a company today, what would its top values be?
11. Who inspires you? Why?
12. How could you create more balance in your life?
13. What makes you angry?
14. Are you capable of building strong, lasting working relationships with co-workers? And if
not, why not?
15. Tell me about a time when you did or said something that had a positive impact on an
employee, coworker, or customer.
16. Have you ever noticed that someone at work was having a bad day? How did you know?
What did you do?
17. Why is it important to develop a rapport with your colleagues?
18. How do you build a rapport with your colleagues?
19. Will you keep in touch with your current co-workers?
20. What would you do if you faced an ethical dilemma at work? Do you have an example?
21.How do you respond to critical feedback? Do you have experience of that? What
did you learn?
22.How would you mediate colleague tension?

3. 23.How would you handle a customer complaint?
24.Have you ever had a disagreement with your supervisor? What happened?
25. Tell Me About a Time You Experienced a Conflict at Work.
26.When You Start a New Job, How Do You Adapt to Your Work Environment?
27.What Are Your Strategies for Keeping Work-Life Balance?
28.What’s Something You’ve Done in the Last Year to Grow Professionally?
29.What Would You Do if You Noticed a Coworker Was Struggling With Their
Work?
30.How Are You Most Likely to Be Misunderstood by Others?
GRATITUDE QUESTIONS:
1. What was the best part of the day?
2. When did you feel grateful?
3. What made you laugh out loud today?
4. Who was kind to you?
5. What insight did you gain today?
6. How are you better today than yesterday?
7. What did you read or listen to today that added value to your life?
8. How did technology make your life easier?
9. What activity did you most enjoy?
10.What positive things did you notice about your surroundings?
11.What made you appreciate your city, state (province), or country today?
12.When did you feel a sense of abundance ?
13.How did you feel connected to others?
14.What are you grateful for about your current life stage?
15.What's a hard lesson you were grateful to learn in a mild way?
16.What's a relationship in your life that gives you lots of feelings of stability?
17.What's an aspect of your personality you're grateful for?
18.What's an aspect of how you were parented for which you feel grateful?
19.What's a stressor you're grateful to have put behind you this year?
20.What's an aspect of your work that you're grateful for?
21.What's a decision you didn't think through super thoroughly but turned out great
anyway?
22.What's an aspect of your physical health you feel grateful for?