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Interview Questions

The five interview questions below are required for your classmate interview. You are expected to create five additional questions to ask your classmate.

1. How do you think a friend or professor who knows you well would describe you?

Quick to learn and always willing to help.

2. What motivates you to put forth your greatest effort? Describe a situation in which you did so. A challenge. I love to do difficult research at work. I find it enjoyable to have to really think in order to find an answer.

3. Describe a situation in which you had to work with a difficult person (another student, co-worker, customer, supervisor, etc.). How did you handle the situation? Is there anything you would have done differently in hindsight? When I first started this job, one of my coworkers was difficult to get along with. She started about 4 weeks after I did, but didn’t receive very good training. I am the type that likes to help everybody succeed, but she was not particularly receptive to my attempts to help her. She felt that since I am young enough to be her child and since she had more experience in our field that she knew better than I did. This resulted in a few incidents of tension between us until I decided to just let her do it her way. I decided I had to accept her idiosyncrasies just like she had accept mine. We get along much better now, but we will likely never be close.

4. What two or three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction? Why? My children have given me the most satisfaction. Though they are frustrating sometimes, there is nothing better than watching them learn, grow, and succeed. Going back to school has been a huge accomplishment as well. I went back and forth about whether I should wait until my children were in school, but I am afraid I would have never gone if I had waited.

5. Why did you select your college or university? Honestly, price had a lot to do with it. I knew I needed to attend an online school because of my busy schedule. When I found Walden, I liked the way the course structure is set up. The price was better than a lot of other online schools as well.

6. Do you think that communication is very important when interacting with others? Absolutely. I have seen how a person who keeps level headed and thinks before they communicate gets a much better response than someone who is quick to anger and doesn’t think before they speak.

7. How will your greatest strength help you perform? I do well under pressure. This helps because no matter how dire a situation seems, I always seem to find a way through.

8. Do you consider yourself successful? Why? I feel I have had successful moments in my life, but I don’t feel I am as successful as I could be. There is always room for more success, and I could always be in a better place in life.

9. What is your greatest weakness? I am pretty bad about procrastinating. As of late, I am pretty quick to get frustrated. Granted, that may be due to baby hormones.

10. What strength will help you the most to succeed? My determination will help me succeed. Things may not always go right, but I am going to keep on working until I get where I need to be.