Today, we talked about interviewing tips and
techniques.
Your profile story is due on Thursday. Please use the
helpful checklist at the bottom of page 125 to make sure you’ve covered
everything.
Here is the link to the blog I talked about:
Here is the link to the blog I talked about:
Here are some great questions to get to the “story behind
the story”:
·
What
was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?
·
Who
has been the biggest influence on your life? What lessons did that person teach
you?
·
Who
has been the kindest to you in your life?
·
What
are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
·
What
is your earliest memory?
·
Are
there any funny stories your family tells about you that come to mind?
·
Are
there any funny stories or memories or characters from your life that you want
to tell me about?
·
What
are you proudest of?
·
When
in life have you felt most alone?
·
If
you could hold on to one memory from your life forever, what would that be?
·
How
has your life been different than what you’d imagined?
·
How
would you like to be remembered?
·
Do
you have any regrets?
·
What
does your future hold?
·
Is
there any wisdom you’d want to pass on to your future children/grandchildren?
What would you want them to know?
·
Is
there anything that you’ve never told me but want to tell me now?
·
If
you could interview anyone from your life living or dead, but not a celebrity,
who would it be and why?
And here are some more…
- What are your hobbies?
- Where did you grow up? Did you move around a lot? If
yes, how did this affect you? If no, how did the stability of living in
one place all your life affect you?
- Are there any political or social issues you feel
passionately about?
Do you have a nickname? - List your favorites (book, movie or play, quote, poem,
website, type of food or individual dish, music genre, song, band or
individual musician, perfume, clothing style or designer, etc.).
- Where have you traveled?
- Tell me about your current job (activity, whatever)?
What attracted you to it?
- How do you break it down and handle everything?
- How do you keep a healthy work/life balance?
- What are your greatest stresses and what causes you the
most anxiety in your life?
- What is most rewarding about your job; what makes it
all worthwhile?
- What are the most critical problems faced by people in
your field in this city/state/country? How do you think these problems
should be handled?
- What's the hardest thing for you about being a _____?
How do you address that?
- What comes easiest to you as a ______?
- Who was your favorite _______ and why?
- So far what's been your most embarrassing moment as a
________?
- What's the newest, freshest approach you are bringing
to your job?
- What's the next skill or knowledge set you want to add
to your repertoire to make you a better _________?
- Favorite weekend activity?
- What's your favorite funny story about yourself?
- Name one thing about yourself that most people don't
know.
- List three misconceptions that people often have about
you (and, if none, why).
- What's your life plan? What do you plan to have accomplished
in five, 10, 20, and 50 years -- personally and/or professionally?
- What was your favorite toy (or game) as a child, and
why?
- What makes you laugh?
- Best compliment you've ever received?
- Anything else you’d like to add?
- Did the person have a model or idol who they aspired to
be as a youth?
- Did the person have specific goals as a youth? How did
they go about achieving those goals?
- Who has helped them during their personal or
professional career?
- Has there been a defining moment in that person's life
that made them decide to take the direction in life that they did?
- Does the person have advice to offer people who are
aspiring to be as successful as he/she?
- Tell me something about yourself that people might not
readily know.
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