interview questions

1. What’s your dissertation about?

- 1 minute answer (elevator speech)?

- 5 minute answer?

- Long answer?

- What’s the problem being addressed?

- What’s the theoretical contribution?

- What’s the practical contribution?

- What’s the method?

- What are your publishing plans?

- What’s the time frame – done? Soon to be done?

- How did you become interested in this topic?

- How does it relate to other stuff you’ve done?

3. What are you expectations with respect to tenure and salary?

4. What’s your research plan over the next three-to-five years?

5. In what area would you be indispensable in a symposium three years from now?

6. What area would you like to be known for? Why will you be famous in five years?

7. How do you see your research contributing to our department/program?

8. Where do you think you’ll publish most of your work?

9. What do you consider to be a top tier journal?

10. Who in your area do you most respect?

11. What is your ideal teaching/research/service mix?

12. What do you do outside of work?

13. What was is like to be a graduate student at …..?

14. Did people get along there [your PhD department]......... ?

15. What does being successful mean to you?

16. Do you see yourself working with anyone here? If so, on what?

17. Do you see any possible areas of research collaboration with others within the university but outside of our department/program?

18. Why would you like to come to [school]………?

19. If you came to [school], what would you need to be successful?

20. What do you want to teach both in terms of classes and level?

21. What methods classes have you taken?

22. Do you have any particular strong or weak areas in terms of methods?

23. Do you tend to collaborate or do you like to work alone?

24. What do you think deserves promotion?

25. What is your teaching philosophy? For grads? For undergrads?

26. What two or three things would be most important to you in your job?

27. Why are you applying to a business school and not a psychology program (or vice versa)?

28. What courses would you feel comfortable teaching?

29. How would you structure courses?

30. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

31. How would you set up your research group?

32. How would you get undergrads and grads involved with your research?

33. What type of set-up funds will you need?

34. Do you have any plans for pursuing external funding?

35. What would you do to build a good program?

36. What questions do you have of us?