MBA Interview Questions – Personal & Interpersonal Skills

1. Personal and personality-based questions:

Background:

• Tell me about yourself/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.    Management and Interpersonal skills based questions:

Management and leadership skills:

• Define leadership.
• Give me an example of a leadership role that you have played when not everything went as planned.
• Why management? Why this institute? How do you know that management interests you?
• Can business and ethics go together?
• What qualities should a successful manager possess? Do you have these attributes?
• What is management?
• How do you think it will help you? What are your career goals?
• Tell me how it will help you in business decision process?
• Suppose you have an assured monthly salary because of which you don’t face any compulsion to work, what would you do then?
• With management you are closing options and you will be serving only the corporate section?
• Would you still like to do an MBA?

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?