Frequently Asked Interview Questions:

1)       Briefly, walk me through your resume, explaining why you made the career and school choices along the way.

2)       What are your 4 biggest assets?

3)       Describe a situation in which you took a risk or made a mistake. What did you learn from this?

4)       Give an example where your involvement in a group made a difference?

5)       How would someone on your group/team describe you?

6)       What are your 3 most important accomplishments?

7)       Describe your leadership/management style

8)       Discuss an example of a situation when you had to persuade a person of a different view to agree with you on an issue.

9)       Describe a situation when you had to make an important decision without having all of the necessary information at hand.

10)   What is your greatest weakness?

11)   Why are you interested in marketing/brand management?

12)   What are the two most creative ideas that you have generated in the past 2 years?

13)   Identify a brand that you feel is marketed well.  Why is it marketed well?

14)   What is your favorite TV commercial?

15)   Which advertising campaigns do you think are effective, and why? Which campaigns are ineffective and why?

16)   Tell me about yourself

17)   How do you keep up with current events

18)   How important is money to you?

19)   What motivates you?

20)   Why did you leave your last job?

21)   Please tell me about an experience in which you were required to utilize strong communications skills to help bring a conflicted team to consensus.

22)   What skills do you bring to the job?

23)   What is a brand that you are loyal to…..How would you market against it?

24)   Why should we hire you over someone else?

25)   What is the craziest thing that you’ve ever done?

26)   What do you do in your spare time?

27)   What are your goals for the next 5 years

28)   Give me an example of times that you felt it necessary to break the rules

29)   Explain a project where you did the analysis from beginning to end

30)   What was the most difficult decision that you ever had to make?

31)   What was your worst decision?

32)   Tell me about a time that you set your sights on a high demanding goal and achieved it

33)   Give me some examples of doing more than was required for a course or job

34)   How do you handle conflict?  How do you handle working with someone that you dislike?

35)   Why XXXXX Company?

36)   Please tell me about yourself and how you ended up here.

37)   Why did you choose UT?

38)   Why are you interested in this industry?

39)   Why are you interested in this company?

40)   What are five characteristics of a successful leader?

41)   Give me an example of a time that you showed initiative and follow through.  Give me another example.

42)   Give me an example of a time that you were required to demonstrate Leadership.  Give me another example.

43)   Give me an example of a time that you were faced with a difficult problem and explain how you dealt with it.  What were your alternatives and how did you evaluate them?  Give me another example.

44)   Give me an example of a time when you were required to work with a group of individuals on an important project and describe your role in the group.  Give me another example.

45)   Give me an example of a time when you communicated effectively with your colleagues.  Give me another example.

46)   Give me an example of a time when you showed creativity or innovation.  Give me another example.  Give me another example.

47)   What are your greatest strengths?

48)   Give me an example where you have exhibited quality improvement.

49)   Give me an example of a time when you had to deal with an upset customer.

50)   Give an example of a time when you have faced a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

51)   Give me an example of a time when you were required to solve a problem using analytical skills and data intensive information (i.e. how are your quantitative skills).

52)   Give an example of a time when you supported a view that was unpopular among your colleagues and explain how you handled the situation.

53)   How do you relieve everyday tension?

54)   Give me an example of a time when you failed and how you dealt with it.

55)   Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

56)   What five adjectives would you use to describe yourself?

57)   Give me an example of a successful packaged good/high tech product.  Why is it successful?

58)   Give me an example of a failing packaged good/high tech product.  Why is it failing?

59)   Give me an example of a time when you used quantitative analysis to solve a problem.

60)   Give me an example of a time when you used persuasion to win the opinions of others.

61)   Give me an example of an unsuccessful team.

62)   What is the most important thing you have learned in business school so far?

63)   Name the 4 P’s, the 3 C’s, and STP.