Honesty Interview Questions

Practice 15 Honesty interview questions covering ethics, integrity, and past mistakes.

Question 8 of 15

Have you ever broken a confidentiality agreement?

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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"Confidentiality agreements are necessary and important to protect an organization. I understand the need for confidentiality and take those factors very seriously. I have never broken the trust of my employer."

Rachelle Enns

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"No. I have only once had a confidentiality agreement and had no problem adhering to it."

Rachelle Enns

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"I have signed NDA's in all of my previous roles, with no issues. As a manager in this particular industry, I also understand the importance of asking my new hires to sign the same. I hold myself, and my team, accountable to confidentiality agreements."

Rachelle Enns

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"In my sales career, I have been asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, before onboarding, more often than not. Discretion has never been an issue for me, and I am happy to comply with any matters of confidence brought up in your organization."

Rachelle Enns

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"I sign a waiver with every one of my clients, and I have had thousands of clients in my marketing career. I would never compromise a company or person's request for confidence."

Rachelle Enns

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"Being a teacher requires a great amount of tact, discretion, and respect for your student's privacy. I understand the importance of this and would never knowingly compromise any confidential matter."

Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

Companies will have confidentiality agreements for a variety of reasons. These could be to protect their trade secrets or to ensure that you do not bring clients over on the occasion that you leave their company. Talk to the interviewer about your thoughts on confidentiality agreements.

Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

"I never have, to my knowledge, broken a confidentiality agreement. Despite my reasons for leaving a position, I would never choose to hurt a previous employer in any way."

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Honesty Interview Questions

Have you ever broken a confidentiality agreement?

15Honesty Interview Questions & Answers

1.We have had concerns with employee theft recently. What would you do if you caught an employee or co-worker stealing?

2.When have you shown great integrity at work?

3.How will you earn the trust of your coworkers?

4.Tell me about a time at work when your integrity was challenged. How did you handle it?

5.Have you ever kept the remainder of an expense that was allotted to you?

6.Do you think honesty is always the best policy?

7.In what type of situations is it better to stretch the truth in order to sell a product?

8.Have you ever broken a confidentiality agreement?

9.Have you ever been advised by a fellow employee or supervisor to lie about a situation? How did you handle this ethical dilemma?

10.On a scale from 1 to 10, how honest are you?

11.Have you ever taken the fall for a situation, where it was really not your fault, in order to protect a coworker?

12.When have you spoken up for cause, knowing that it would directly look unfavorable on you, because it was the right thing to do?

13.Do people see you as a trustworthy and honest individual?

14.What would you do if a co-worker asked you to help them steal?

15.What is your first reaction when you do something wrong at work?