Communication

• Have you ever had to get buy-in from a resistant audience to a project or idea? Tell me how you approached it.
• Tell me about a time when you had to give a team member constructive criticism. How did you go about giving it?

Achievements

• Tell me about your greatest career achievement to date. Can you describe what steps led to the outcome?
• Describe a project that you worked on, that led to your professional development.

Leadership

• Tell me about a time when you had to lead a project and your other team members were not contributing as you had imagined. How did you tackle the situation?
• Describe a time when a member of your team was under-performing. What did you do?

Analysis

• Tell me about a time when you had to analyse information to solve a problem. How did you go about doing it, and what was the result?
• Describe a project that you worked on where you had to take steps to solve a problem. What was the problem and what was the logic you applied to solve it?

Attention to detail/organisational ability

• Tell me about a time where you discovered an error, made by either yourself or a colleague. What did you do? How did you approach the situation?
• Have you ever had to create or implement a new system to achieve greater productivity? What did you do?

Creativity and innovation

• Describe the most innovative idea you have ever had.
• Have you ever solved a problem in a way that was unexpected? Tell me about it.

Integrity

• Give me an example of a time where your integrity was challenged. What did you do?
• Describe a time when honesty was not the best policy.

Teamwork

• Describe a situation where you had to make an unpopular decision. How did you go about communicating it to your team?
• Give me an example where you have had to work with someone who you didn’t get along with. How did you approach and resolve the situation?

Tenacity

• Tell me about a time when you haven’t achieved what you set out to do. How did you deal with it?
• Have you ever had a project or idea rejected? What happened and how did you react?