Department of Justice Interview Questions
Go Back1. Tell me about yourself.
2. How do you define success?
3. What was your least favorite aspect of your last job?
4. What is your opinion of your last boss?
5. Are you a people person or an animal person?
6. What are you most proud of?
7. What opportunities have you had working and collaborating in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive settings?
8. Who in your career has had the most impact on you?
9. Tell me about when you last missed a deadline.
10. Tell me about a time you followed a command you disagreed with.
11. What do you love about performing repetitive work?
12. Are you able to regulate your emotions to do your job effectively?
13. How would your former work colleagues describe you?
14. Describe a stressful situation on the job and how you dealt with it.
15. If you were assigned more work than you could handle, what would you do?
16. How do you handle conflict at work?
17. Describe an occasion where you mediated a dispute between two people.
18. What is your career endgame?
19. What's the biggest challenge you anticipate facing in this position?
20. What is your method for measuring the quality of your work?
21. What questions do you have?
22. What challenges are you looking for?
23. How do you stay organized?
24. Do you consider yourself a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person?
25. Are you interviewing with anyone else?
26. How would you rate your multitasking skills?
27. Tell me about a time you foresaw a potential problem and what you did to avoid it.
28. What would you bring to the Department of Justice?
29. What skills do you possess that you feel are translatable to this role?
30. Tell me about your educational background.