Personnel Selection: Interview Questions: Goals

What would you like to be doing in five years? Ten years?
What would you like to be doing in two years?
Where do you see yourself next year?
Where do you see yourself five years from now? Ten?
What are goals you would like to accomplish in the next year?
What are your long range and short range goals and objectives, when and why did you establish these goals and how are you preparing yourself to achieve them?
What are your long range career goals?
What are your long range career objectives?
What are your long range career objectives? How will you achieve them?
What are your long term goals?
What are your personal five-year goals?
What are your personal long-term goals?
Tell me about your most important long-term goals.
What are your short term and long term career goals? How are you preparing yourself to achieve them?
What are your short-term and long-range goals and objectives and how have you prepared yourself to achieve them?
What are your short-term and long-term objectives?
What are your short-term career goals?
What do you hope to be doing five years from now?
What do you see yourself doing five years from now, 10 years?
What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
What do you want to be doing five years from now?
How, on a long-term basis, do you plan to achieve your goals?
If you get hired, what do you think you will be five years from now?
What goals do you want to achieve within the next five years?

Do you have goals to become a manager?
Do you have goals to become an expert in any particular field?
Do you see yourself doing your supervisor's job?
Have you ever thought of completely changing your career?
How is your current position a stepping stone to the advancement of your career?
What are goals you would like to accomplish in this profession?
What are your (most significant) career goals?
What are your career goals for the future?
What are your future career goals and how do you hope to achieve them?
What are your career plans for the future?
What is your long-term goal with relation to your occupation?
Tell me about your career goals.
What are your professional five-year goals?
If you could start your career over, what would you do differently?
If you stay with your current employer, what will happen to your career?
What are your future vocational plans?
How have your career goals changed over time?
What goals, other than those related to your career, have you established?
What is your career objective?
What kinds of career goals have you set?
If your boss' job became vacant, would you apply for it?
How did you start in this line of work?

How are your goals different from those of your supervisor?
Did you have an impact on your company's goals?
Do you achieve all of the goals you set? If not, why not?
Do you have financial goals?
Do you have political goals?
Our company has a mission statement that provides direction. What is your mission statement?
What are your other goals?
What goals, other than those related to your occupation, have you established for yourself for the next 10 years?
Where do you see this company going?
Where would you take your department if you got this position?
Would you want to do your boss' job?