MyCoolCareer.com Basic Interview Questions

CURRENT
1. What do you do for a living?
(title, tasks, responsibilities, hours/week, what a day looks like, how spend most of your time, work weekends or evenings, who you report to, do you have people reporting to you)
2. What do you most enjoy about your career? What parts are most challenging or least pleasant?
3. What personal qualities, knowledge & skills are needed for success?
4. What is the current employment outlook for your field?
5. Ideas, books, websites for people interested in your career?

KID & TEEN
6. Background: parents jobs, where raised
7. What were you like as a kid & teen? Your personal interests? Were you good at? What careers were you thinking about in high school?
8. How were you as a high school student? What subjects held your interest? Which didn't?
9. Did you participate in activities outside of school? What were they? Were they significant in your development?
10. As a youth, did you haven mentors?
11. What school subjects would be the most helpful and relevant for me to study to prepare now for your current career?

YOUNG ADULT TO PRESENT
12. What did you do after high school? Receive special training? Did you attend college? Where? Degree(s)? Field of study? Find valuable?
13. Walk thru your career path from your first job out of school/military. What did you like best and worst about each job? Did you explore more than one option? Types of jobs. How did you get to your current job?
14. What are the minimum educational, training, licensing requirements for entry into your field? How many years does this take?
15. How did you finance college? (Work? Scholarship? Detail)
16. Is there anything additional you think is important for me to know about your career?

Thank you for your time. What an interesting career you have!

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