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Interview Questions
-Which of your courses or activities has helped prepare you for this
internship?
-What is your dissertation about and how did you decide on the topic.
-What factors did you consider when choosing your major?
-Why did you choose the extracurricular activities you did?
Internship candidates generally lack professional experiences so
internship interview questions will focus on the desired competencies or
behaviors for the position rather than task related questions.
You should reflect on your past experiences,
select appropriate examples and plan your answers using the following
structure:
-Describe the specific situation you were involved in
-Detail the action and steps you took in the situation
-Outline the results and outcome of your actions. What happened, what
was accomplished, what did you learn?
Initiative:
-Give me an example of when you have done more than required in a
course.
-Describe a time you have had to overcome a major obstacle.
-Tell me about a time that you improved on an established way of doing
something.
Answer Guidelines: Describe your ability to be proactive, take
imaginative steps to overcome obstacles, generate new ideas, take
advantage of opportunities and do more than required. If you have no
work experience to draw on, refer to your course, your school activities
and your extracurricular and sports participation to find examples. Make
sure the example relates to the competency.
Problem analysis and problem-solving:
-Tell me about a situation where you had to do research and analyze the
results for a complex assignment.
-What types of information did you use to choose your school, how did
you evaluate it?
-Describe a tough academic decision you had to make, how did you go
about this?
-Describe a situation where your initial approach failed and you had to
try something different to meet your result.
Answer Guidelines: Show your ability to gather relevant
information and identify issues or problems. Describe how you organized
the information, compared data from different sources, considered
alternatives and identified the most appropriate course of action taking
into consideration your resources and any constraints.
Planning and organizing:
-Tell me about a time you had a particularly heavy course load, how did
you manage time?
-Describe how you have balanced your academic work with your
extracurricular activities.
-What objectives have you set for this year, what steps have you taken
to ensure that you are on track?
Answer Guidelines: Show your ability to plan ahead, determine
priorities, establish schedules and manage deadlines. Describe how you
have effectively managed competing priorities, multi-tasked and achieved
the necessary outcomes.
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