Good Interview Questions for Faculty

Good Interview Questions for Faculty

• Tell us a little more about your professional experiences, particularly those not metioned on your resume/application. 
• Why are you interested in leaving your current assignment and why do you feel that
  this assignment would be better for you?
• How does this position fit into your overall career goals?
• How do you define good teaching?
• Describe your teaching style.
• Describe your teaching philosophy.
• What do you think are the most important attributes of a good instructor?
• What do you think are your greatest strengths as an instructor? In which areas do you feel you can use some further development?
• Describe the duties of your current job.
• What do you dislike most about your current job?
• What is your favorite part of your current job and why is it your favorite part? 
• Share your ideas about professional development.
• In what professional development activities have you been involved over the past few years?
• What are your current research interests?
• Have you involved your students in your research?
• How do you feel your teaching style can serve our student population?
• How do you engage students, particularly in a course of non-majors?
• How do you adjust your style to the less-motivated or under-prepared student?
• On the basis of the information you have received so far, what do you see as the major challenges of this position and how would you meet them?
• Describe a situation in which you did “all the right things” and were still unsuccessful.
• What did you learn from the experience?
• Why did you choose this profession/field?
• What new skills have you learned over the past year?
  How would your background and experiences strengthen this academic department?
• Think about an instance when you were given an assignment that you thought you would not be able to complete. How did you accomplish the assignment?
• Have you ever had a great idea but been told that you could not implement it? How did you react?
• What did you do?
• Tell us about your preferred work environment.
• Describe your ideal job.
• Tell us how you would learn your new job in the absence of a formal training program?
• What things have you done on your own initiative to help you prepare for your next job?
• In your opinion, how should the workload of a faculty member be split and into what areas?
• Tell us how you go about organizing your work. Also describe any experience you have had with computers or other tools as they relate to organization.
• What experiences or skills will help you manage projects?
• Can you describe how you go about solving a problem? Please give us some examples.
• What is the biggest conflict you have ever been involved in at work? How did you handle the situation?
• What pedagogical changes do you see on the horizon in your discipline?
• How would you characterize your level of computer literacy? What are some of the programs and applications with which your are familiar?
• Tell us how you would use technology in your day-today job.
• What technology applications have you utilized in the classroom? 
• How would you go about being an advocate and resource for the use of technology in the teaching and learning process?
• What courses have you created or proposed in the past five years?
• What changes have you brought to the teaching of ______________?
• Think about a co-worker from the present or past whom you admire. Why?
• What are the characteristics that you prize most in an employee? What behaviors or characteristics do you find intolerable?
• Describe the best boss and the worse boss you have ever had.
• What would your co-workers or your supervisor say about you?
• What are one or two of your proudest professional accomplishments?
• Do you have any concerns that would make you have reservations about accepting this position if it is offered to you?
• What do you think most uniquely qualifies you for this position?
• Do you have any additional information that you would like to share?
• Do you have any questions for us?