Interview is an essential part of selection process in most of the Banks. The purpose of an interview is to evaluate various personality traits, skills and experience of the candidates. The interviewers intend to assess the suitability of the candidates for Banking jobs. The type of interview questions asked range from personal to interpersonal skills based questions.
Given below is the list of questions that feature under the two important categories of interview questions:
1. Personal and personality-based questions:
Background:
Tell me about you/what would you like us to know about you that is not mentioned in your resume?
What are the three most important events/incidents of your life?
What are your three major accomplishments/achievements in life?
Where did you grow up?
What were you doing during this gap of time that is mentioned in your resume?
What is that one experience in your life that you would want to go back and change?
Self Description:
Describe yourself in three words.
How would your friends describe you?
Goals:
Have you set any new goals for yourself recently?
What are your five to ten year career goals?
What are your career and educational goals?
How would you like your lasting impression to be?
What are your career options right now?
Do you have a final statement?
What are your career options right now?
How do you think you have improved your career path?
Values:
What does ‘success’ mean to you?
What does ‘failure’ mean to you?
What is more important to you: money or the type of job?
Who do you admire? Why?
What are you passionate about?
Who is your hero and why?
Strengths/weaknesses
What are your strongest abilities?
What is your biggest weakness?
Give an example of something that you have done that shows initiative-taking ability?
What have you disliked in your past jobs?
What is that one quality that makes you stand out among your peers?
What major problem have you encountered and how did you deal with it?
Have you ever faced any failures? What did you learn from them?
Can you work on several assignments simultaneously?
What has been your greatest challenge?
Are you creative? Give me an example. What have you done that you consider creative?
2. Leadership and Interpersonal skills based questions:
Leadership skills:
Define leadership.
Give me an example of a leadership role that you have played when not everything went as planned.
Why banking sector? Why this bank? How do you know that banking sector interests you?
Can business and ethics go together?
What qualities should a successful bank manager possess? Do you have these attributes?
What is banking?
How do you think it will help you? What are your career goals?
Suppose you have an assured monthly salary because of which you don’t face any compulsion to work, what would you do then?
Would you still like to work in the banking sector?
Interpersonal Skills:
Have you ever managed a conflict? How?
What kinds of people do you like to work with?
Define cooperation.
What kinds of people you cannot work with?
Have you ever spoken before a group of people? How large?