Personnel Selection: Interview Questions: Job Search

These questions ask "Why" and "how" are they looking for a job?

How long have you been unemployed?
Tell me why you left your last job.
What are you looking for in a job that you do not have in your current job?
Why do you want to change positions?
When did you leave your last job?
Why have you changed jobs frequently?
Why have you changed jobs so frequently?
Why have you changed jobs?
You've been with your current employer for a very short time. Is this an indication that you'll be moving around a lot throughout your career?
If you're happy with your current employer, why are you looking for another job?
Why did you leave your last (employer/job)?
What has caused you to change jobs so frequently?
What are some of your reasons for considering other employment?

How badly do you want to get this job?
What do you find least interesting about this job?
What do you find most interesting about this job?
What do you like least about this job?
What interests you most about our position?
What interests you most about this position?
In what type of position are you interested?
In what type of position are you most interested?
Why do you want this job? What are you looking for from this job?
Why do you want this position?
Why do you want to be manager? (or Why a ______?)
Why do you want to work in a job for which you are overqualified?
How would you define your profession?
What are you looking for in a job?
Tell me what you're looking for in a job.
What is missing from your last job that you'd like to see in this one?
What the most important thing you're looking for in a job?
What job do you like doing the least?
What factors are important to you in a job?
Describe to me what you're looking for in a job.
How did you do your most (interesting/boring) job?
Which of the following matters most in deciding to take the job: money, recognition, challenge, or responsibility?
What is more important to you, the money or the type of job?
Why are you interested in this position?
How do you rank your current job with others that you've held?
What position are you most interested in?

What type of career are you looking for?
Tell me your career goals.
In what type of position are you most interested? Why? What do you know about this field?
Why would you like this line of work?
What are the disadvantages of your chosen field?
Why do you think you would like this particular type of job?

How long would you plan to work for this company?
How long would you stay with us?
For what period of time do you envision yourself working with us?
You've changed jobs quite frequently, what assurances do we have that you will stay with us?
Would you rather go to another company?

How did your previous jobs relate to his position? What did you learn from them?
How did you get your last job?
How did you get your previous jobs?
How did you feel when you started your last job?
How did you find your current job?
Why do you want to leave your current employer so soon?
Why do you want to leave your job if you like it so much?
Why do you want to leave your present job?
How did you get promoted in your last job?
How did you get your first job after college?
What jobs have you held?
What jobs have you held? How were they obtained and why did you leave?
Are you still employed?
What is your present position?
What about your current job do you find the most unpleasant?
What's your present job like?
What exactly do you do for a living?
How do you spend most of your time in your current job?
Does your current employer have any policies that you consider unfair?
If you have these complaints about your current company, and they like you, why haven't you brought your concerns to their attention?
What type of position do you have now? (or What exactly do you do at ___? Or, Tell me more about your work at ___).
Why didn't you complete any internships?
What makes this job different from your others?
What was your most meaningful job, whether paid-time, full-time, summer or volunteer? What was special about that job?