Analytical Chemist Interview Questions
Go Back1. In your opinion, why is laboratory safety and following standard laboratory practices important?
2. If I called your most recent supervisor and asked what area your performance could most improve in, what would he/she say?
3. Provide an example of a time that you had to make a difficult ethical decision?
4. What do you consider to be your greatest strength?
5. In your opinion, what is your greatest weakness?
6. Tell us about a time that you were able to implement change is a previous role?
7. Do you feel that you possess strong technical writing skills, if so, how?
8. What do you believe is your greatest asset as an Analytical Chemist?
9. How do you measure your own success within your role as an Analytical Chemist?
10. What do you believe is the most important piece of the Analytical Chemist's role?
11. Why do you feel it is important to have an Analytical Chemist in a chemistry lab?
12. Where do you see yourself in your career five years from now?
13. Tell us about a time where data that you had analyzed made an impact on the company that you were working for at the time?
14. Please describe your ideal supervisor?
15. What initially made you apply to this position?
16. What interests you in a career as an Analytical Chemist?
17. What aspect of your current or most recent position have you found to be most challenging?
18. What has been the greatest accomplishment in your career this far?
19. What do you enjoy most about your current/most recent position?
20. What makes you the ideal analytical chemist for our company?
21. What makes you look for a position outside of the company that you are currently working with?
22. What do you feel is the most important skill that an Analytical Chemist should possess and why?
23. What do you do to stay up to date with the changes in technology?
24. Please provide us with your background in the scientific industry.
25. This position requires a great deal of attention to detail. Would you consider yourself detail oriented and if so, how?
26. When you have multiple tasks to complete, how do you go about prioritizing those tasks?
27. Share an effective way of analyzing a large amount of data?
28. How do you best learn the tasks of a new position?
29. Provide an example of a time that you had to quickly shift priorities?
30. Tell us about a time that you reviewed data and found an error. How did you handle bringing that error to the attention of your team?
31. Talk about a time that you disagreed with a client or coworker and how the disagreement was handled?
32. Tell us about a time that you made a mistake in your career and what steps you took to correct that mistake?
33. Tell us about a time that you identified a safety concern in the workplace, what was the result?
34. Tell us about a challenge that you faced in a previous position and how you overcame that challenge?