HR Interview Questions and Answers

In this section, I have selected advanced HR interview questions and answers for all levels of candidates(entry level, advanced level, expert level).Last few months I have been working to select best question and answer set for HR interview questions.
  1. Tell me about yourself.
  2. Why should I hire you?
  3. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
  4. Why do you want to work at our company?
  5. What is the difference between confidence and over confidence?
  6. What is the difference between hard work and smart work?
  7. In what ways can you contribute to our company?
  8. How do you feel about working nights and weekends?
  9. Do you prefer to work alone, or do you work better in groups?
  10. Why have you been out of work so long?
  11. Why have you had so many jobs?
  12. Tell me about a situation when your work was criticized.
  13. Give us an example of a challenging situation you've overcome.
  14. Could you have done better in your last job?
  15. Can you work under pressure?
  16.  Do you consider yourself a leader?
  17.  How do you handle stress or pressure?
  18.  What do you find interesting about this job?
  19. What are your outside interests?
  20. What do you consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
  21. Would you lie for the company?
  22. What do you find motivates you the most?
  23. Who has inspired you in your life and why?
  24. What was the toughest decision you ever had to make?
  25. Have you considered starting your own business?
  26. How do you define success and how do you measure up to your own definition?
  27. If you won $10 million lottery, would you still work?
  28. Tell me something about our company.
  29. What would your last boss say about your work performance?
  30. How much salary do you expect?
  31. Where do you see yourself five years from now?
  32. On a scale of one to ten, rate me as an interviewer.
  33. Do you have any questions for me?
  34. Why did you resign from your previous job?
  35. Are you willing to relocate or travel?
  36. What are your goals?
  37. What motivates you to do good job?
  38. What makes you angry?
  39. Give me an example of your creativity.
  40. How long would you expect to work for us if hired?
  41. Are not you overqualified for this position?
  42. Describe your ideal company, location and job.
  43. What are your career options right now?
  44. Explain how would be an asset to this organization?
  45. Tell me about the most boring job you have ever had.
  46. May I contact your present employer for a reference?
  47. How many hours a week do you normally work?
  48. What was the toughest challenge you have ever faced?
  49. Have you been absent from work more than a few days in any previous position?
  50. What changes would you make if you came on board?
  51. What would you say to your boss if he is crazy about an idea, but you think it stinks?
  52. How could you have improved your career progress?
  53. Tell me honestly about the strong points and weak points of your boss (company, management team, etc.)
  54. Looking back on your last position, have you done your best work?
  55. Why should I hire you from the outside when I could promote someone from within?
  56. How do you feel about reporting to a younger person?
  57. Looking back, what would you do differently in your life?
  58. Why are not you earning more money at this stage of your career?
  59. Why did u choose this career?
  60. Do your skills match this job or another job more closely?
  61. Why aren?t you earning more money at this stage of your career ?
  62. Why did you leave your last Job?
  63. Where could you use some improvement ?
  64. Tell me about yourself?
  65. Why should hire you?
  66. What is your greatest strength?
  67. How will you handle confidential company matters?
  68. What is the amount of pf and esi for employee to deducted ?
  69. What is meant by HR?
  70. What are your weak points?
  71. Why do you want to join in industry? (for recent graduates)
  72. Explain how you would be an asset to this organization
  73. Would you be willing to relocate if required?
  74. Why have you taken HR as your major and marketing as minor subject?
  75. What is the difference between confidence and over confidence??
  76. How do you feel about reporting to a younger person (minority, woman, etc)?
  77. Briefly describe your ideal job?
  78. How would describe your ideal job?
  79. Why do you want to join this company? Why do you want to leave your previous job?
  80. What qualities do you look for in a boss?
  81. Are you applying for other jobs?
  82. Do you know anyone who works for us?
  83. Difference between hard work and smart work?
  84. 'Describe for me a situation where you were required to gather a large amount of data, to analyse it objectively and to 
  85. make a decision or a recommendation based on the results.'
  86. Briefly describe your ideal job?
  87. What is more important to you: the money or the work?
  88. Why you are leaving your current job?
  89. Where would you like to be after five years?
  90. What are your career options right now?
  91. How will i introduce myself in an interview?
  92. What motivates you to do your best on the job?
  93. What is your approach towards your personal and professional goals? How do you prioritize them? Give me some examples?
  94.  You are of electrical field and you are going for software? why
  95. What has been your greatest achievement in terms of employee relations?
  96. If they ask tell about yourself,from where i have to start.give an answer with an example?
  97. what should i answer if my interviewer asks me about my short and long term goals.Tell me with some example?
  98. What are the knowledge required for getting HR job in companies?
  99. Being an IT graduate, why you want to join a BPO?
  100. Tell me about your ability to work under pressure.
  101. What do u want to do with your life?
  102. What is your favourite colour?
  103. Who has inspired you in your life and why?
  104. 1)What is your achievements? 2)Why you feel proud of your work? 3)Why should I hire you?
  105. What would you most like to accomplish if you had this job?
  106. What motivates you to do good job?
  107. Why u choose MBA after doing graduation in science stream?
  108. where do you see yourself after 10 years from now?
  109. What is the main role of HR in an organization?
  110. How to break the HR interviewers?
  111. Are you a team player?
  112. What are your weak points?
  113. Why did you leave your previous job?
  114. you are of electrical field and you are going for software? why
  115. Why did you leave your last job?
  116. What?s the most difficult part of being a (job title)?
  117. Tell me about your dream job.
  118. Do you consider yourself successful?
  119. What motivates your best work?
  120. Why do you think you are the best candidate?
  121. Why you left your your previous job?
  122. How to properly answer What is your motivation to make a career/job change ?
  123. What is management interview ?
  124. Suppose you already have job offer and giving to interview to other new company. What reasoning should be given if other 
  125. company employer asks that about reasons to not accept that job offer. I mean why you will not accept that offer if we will offer you?
  126. Describe your management style.
  127. Why you want to join BPO?
  128. What is international staffing or consulting?
  129. What good books have you read lately?
  130. Tell me about a time when you were accountable for a mistake you made. Did you accept responsibility?
  131. what is ergonomics?
  132. Being a instrumentation and control engineer,why did you enter into the software field?
  133. Why you left your last job?
  134. Why do you want to persue a career in Hr?There are better growth opportunities in Marketing!
  135. Why do you want to work for this organization?
  136. How long would you expect to work for us if hired?
  137. Why do you think you would do well at this job?
  138. Do you have the stomach to fire people? Have you had experience firing many people ?
  139. If you won $10 million lottery, would you still work?
  140. Describe your ideal company, location and job?
  141. What was the toughest part of your last job?
  142. Why are u change to voice process to non-voice process? Why do you leave your previous organization ?
  143. What was the toughest decision you ever had to make?
  144. What could i say in tell me about yourself?
  145. Are you willing to relocate or travel ?
  146. What are your greatest weakness ?
  147. Have you been absent from work more than a few days in any previous position?
  148. Describer a situation that didn?t suffer because of you but from external conditions beyond your control ?
  149. Tell me honestly about the strong points and weak points of your boss?
  150. Looking back, what would you do differently in your life ?
  151. Do you think you are overqualified for this position?
  152. Do you have any questions ?