1. When was the last time you were angry?

2. Describe a person you like least at DOST

and the person you like most.
3. Of all the contractual staff at DOST how
many do you think will concede that you
deserve the regular item that you do?
4. What is the best time while working at
DOST? Why?
5. Why you may NOT be a regular staff?
6. Describe the kind of person you will work
with that will improve you performance.
7. Can you give me a situation that you are
able to use your initiative to accomplish
a task.
8. What accomplishment you have so far
that you are product of?
9. Tell me about a time when you had to go
above and beyond the call of duty in
order to get a job done.
10.Tell me about a time when you had too
many things to do and you were required
to prioritize your tasks.
11.What is your passion in life?
12.Tell me about a difficult decision youve
made in the last year.
13.Give me an example of a time when
something you tried to accomplish and
failed.
14.Give me an example of when you
showed initiative and took the lead.
15.Give me an example of a time when you
motivated others.

16. Tell me about a time when you missed an

obvious solution to a problem.
17.Tell me about a time when you were
forced to make an unpopular decision.
18.Describe a time when you set your sights
too high (or too low).
19.Tell me about a time when you made
sure a customer was pleased with your
service
20.Describe a time when you had to interact
with a difficult client. What was the
situation, and how did you handle it?

21.Tell me about a time you were under a lot of

pressure. What was going on, and how did you
get through it?
22.Tell me about a time you failed. How did you
deal with this situation?
23. Sometimes its just not possible to get
everything on your to-do list done. Tell me
about a time your responsibilities got a little
overwhelming. What did you do?
24. What do you will please your supervisor? Do
you think you are able to please your
supervisor?
25. Do you think you deserve to be regularized
due to you performance and potential?
26.How you manage your emotions on the
job and if you can maintain your
professionalism.
27.If you could relive the last 10 years of
your life, what would you do differently?
where you are going with your career by having
you reflect on your past.
28.Tell me about a time when you helped
resolve a dispute between others.
29.People that can take on leadership roles
and resolve
problems are heavily valued
30.What are your goals?
if your goals
organization.

align

with

those

of

the

31.What are three things your former

manager would like you to improve on?
32.Tell me about an accomplishment you
are most proud of.
33.Are you a leader or a follower?
34.Why arent you earning more money at
this stage of your career?how much the
salary factors in to your career goals.

35.Who has inspired you in your life and

why?

50.What new skills have you learned or

developed recently?

36.Give me an example of a time you were

able to be creative with your work. What
was exciting or difficult about it?

51.What sort of things have you done to

become better qualified for your career?

to understand what made you the person that

you are.

52.What have you done to improve your

knowledge in the last year?

37.What techniques and tools do you use to

keep yourself organized?

53.The interviewer would like to know if you

are a lifelong learner. Companies want to
hire people that are constantly learning
and not stagnating.

38.What
is
statement?

your

personal

mission

54.Do you have a favorite quote? What is it?

39.What is your greatest
outside of work?

achievement

40.Tell me one thing about yourself you

wouldnt want me to know.
41.The interviewer wants to know how youll
handle a question that you did not
anticipate and what youll say that you
may not have planned to.

55.Who is your role model and why?

56.Who do you respect? Why?
57.Tell me about someone you admire and
why?
58.What unique experiences separate you
from other candidates?

42.What is your favorite memory from your

teenage years?

59.What kind of person would you refuse to

work with?

43.What accomplishment has given you the

most satisfaction?
44.A predictor of your ability to accomplish
things in the future is partly based on
what youve accomplished in the past.

60.What are your short-range goals and

objectives, when and why did you
establish these goals and how are you
preparing yourself to achieve them?

45.What do you do to help balance life and

work?

61.Give me an example of an important

goal that you set in the past and tell me
about your success in reaching it.

46.Would you rather be liked or feared?

62.What do you really want to do in life?

47.How competitive are you?

63.What are the most important rewards

you expect in your career?

48.Tell me about a time when you used your

creativity to overcome a problem.
49.Which of your technical skills has most
helped you on the job?

64.What are your best skills?

65.What is the most difficult adjustment you
have ever had to make?

66.What two things are most important to

you in a position?

81.Whats the most important thing youve

learned in life?

67.What are you interested in outside of

your career?

82.What is your greatest fear?

68.Give an example
misjudged someone.
69.What have
mistakes?

you

of

learned

time

from

you

83.Tell me about a problem you solved in a

unique way. What was the outcome?

your

84.What skills have you acquired from your

part-time jobs?

70.Describe times when you were not

satisfied
or
pleased
with
your
performance.
71.What did you do about it?
72.Describe a time when you had to make a
difficult choice between your personal
and professional life.
73.What was the most useful criticism you
received?
74.What you have learned ever since you
were born?
75.Tell me about an incident in your life that
shows how you faced a challenge and
how you handled it.
76.Describe how you have persevered with
a difficult problem in order to achieve a
successful outcome.
77.What experience in your life has taught
you the most?
78.What types of people do you get along
with and why.

85.Do you think it is worthwhile to establish

new relationships?
86.How do you judge your own success?
87.Can you tell me about a situation where
you used your imaginative skills to solve
a very difficult problem?
88.Describe a situation in which you dealt
with a difficult customer.
89.Tell me about a time when you disagreed
with your boss.
90.Describe a situation in which you were
motivated to put forth your best effort.
91.If your boss gives you a mountain of
tasks at 3:00pm and says she needs
them by 5:00pm, but you know you cant
finish them in time, what do you do?
92.Tell me about the best boss you ever
had.
93.Describe for me a situation in which you
were proactive.

79.When you go on vacation, when do you

pack your suitcase?

94.If you know your boss is 100% wrong

about something, how would you handle
it?

80.What do you consider yourself good at

doing?

95.Describe a situation where you did not

agree with something your boss asked

you to do and how you resolved the

problem.
96.If you will be applying to another job in
another office and I will be you
reference, what are the three things I will
say to describe you as a person and as a
worker?
97.Can you describe a time when your work
was criticized?
98.Are you competitive? Can you give an
example?
99.Have you ever been given too heavy a
workload?
100.
In what part-time job have you
been most interested?
101.
What motivates you to put forth
your greatest effort?
102.
How do you determine your
priorities when you have multiple
projects?
103.
What is the worst job you can
imagine holding?
104.
Give me an example of a time
when you had to conform to a policy or
rule that you did not agree with.
105.
What must be changed in this
office?
106.
Describe a situation where your
results have been below your superiors
expectations.
107.
What are the steps you follow to
study a problem before making a
decision?
108.
Why do you think you hired at
DOST? Do you think you are able to
deliver the expectations?
109.
How long are you willing to fail at this job
before you succeed?
110.
What are you most proud of in your
career?
111.
What skills are you lacking?
112.
Tell me what you felt was unfair to you in
your last job.

113.
Are you satisfied of the current level of
you career? Why?
114.
Have you delivered more that the value
of the salary given to you? Why?
115.
Do you know the value of your work in
terms of Pesos? Is it commensurate with the
salary given to you?
FOR NEW
116.
If I will give you a salary of P30,000.000
how long will you recover the expense your
family incurred in your study?

117.
If the time is 3:15, what is the angle
between the hour hand and the minute hand
on a clock? HINT: The answer is not zero!
118.

How would you determine the weight

of a commercial airplane without a scale?

119.

Why are manhole covers round?

120.
What can you do for us that someone
else can't?
121.
How long would it take you to make a
meaningful contribution to our firm?
122.

How long would you stay with us?

123.

Your resume suggests that you may

be over-qualified or too experienced for this

position. What's Your opinion?
124.
If someday you will become a
member of this panel, what will be your
criteria in hiring people?
125.

What do you look for when You hire

people?
126.

What important trends do you see in

our industry?
127. What are the things you learn by yourself?
128. How successful do you you've been so far?

129. When given two or three equally viable paths

to achieve an object, how do you decide which
path to follow?
130. Why most rooms have four corners? If you
will design your what will be?
131. Why are computer screens rectangle?
132. Why do we read from left to right?
133. How many books have you completed so
far? Which one is your favourite and why?
134. When is the first time you fear that you will
fail? What are you thinking?
135. What Would The Person Who Likes You
Least In The World Say About You?
136. What's The Biggest Risk You've Ever
Taken?
137. Do you think fish drink water?
138. If we shrunk you to the size of a pencil and
put you in a blender, how would you try to get
out?
139. If you are allowed to choose, What colour will
you give to your brain?
140. What fruit would you be?

144. Pitch [name of your company] to me as if I

were buying your product/service.

145. What single project or task would you consider

your most significant career accomplishment to
date? Walk me through the plan, how you
managed it, how you measured its success, and
what the biggest mistakes you made were.
146. Is it better to be perfect and late, or good and
on time?
147. What's your definition of hard work?

148. If I were to poll everyone you've

worked with, what percent would not be
a fan of yours? Then, if I were to
interview these people, what words
would they most frequently use to
describe you?
149. Who is the smartest person you know
personally? Why?
150. What is something you'd be happy
doing every single day for the rest of
your career?
151. If you had P500,000 to build your own
business, what would you do?

141. In a news story about your life, what would

the headline be?

152. What's surprised you about the

142. When I contact your last supervisor and ask

153.

which area of your work needs the most

improvement, what will I learn?
143. Tell me about a time you set difficult
goals. What did you do to achieve them? Walk
me through the process and purpose."

interview process so far?