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20 Questions For Assessing Motivation

This document provides 20 questions to assess a job candidate's motivation by drawing out revealing answers about how they handle challenges, take initiative, and drive results. The questions probe for examples of when the candidate went above and beyond, found ways to improve processes, collaborated with others, set and achieved goals, and maintained motivation despite setbacks or unmotivated teams. The goal is to identify candidates who display an entrepreneurial and can-do attitude.

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20 Questions For Assessing Motivation

This document provides 20 questions to assess a job candidate's motivation by drawing out revealing answers about how they handle challenges, take initiative, and drive results. The questions probe for examples of when the candidate went above and beyond, found ways to improve processes, collaborated with others, set and achieved goals, and maintained motivation despite setbacks or unmotivated teams. The goal is to identify candidates who display an entrepreneurial and can-do attitude.

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20 Questions for Assessing Motivation

If your company values workers who have an entrepreneurial nature, take the initiative and have a can-
do attitude, here are twenty behavioral interview questions that can draw revealing answers and get you
on your way to finding employees with stellar motivation.

1. At times your work load may feel unmanageable. Describe a time when you recognized that you
were unable to meet multiple deadlines. What did you do about it?
2. Tell us about an idea you started that involved collaboration with your colleagues that improved
the business.
3. When you had extra time available at your last job, describe ways you found to make your job
more efficient.
4. At times you may be asked to do many things at once. Tell me how you would decide what is
most important and why.
5. Tell me a time when you identified a problem with a process and what steps did you take to
improve the problem?
6. What processes or techniques have you learned to make a job easier, or to be more effective?
What was your discovery process and how did you implement your idea?
7. Give me an example of a new idea you suggested to your manager within the last six months.
Describe steps you have taken to implement your idea.
8. Tell me about a time when you went beyond your manager's expectations in order to get the job
done.
9. Tell me about a time when you identified a new, unusual or different approach for addressing a
problem or task.
10. Describe a project or idea (not necessarily your own) that was implemented, or carried out
successfully primarily because of your efforts.
11. How do you react when faced with many hurdles while trying to achieve a goal? How do you
overcome the hurdles?
12. Everyone has good days and bad days at work. Take your time and think back to a really good
day you had and tell me why it was a good day.
13. How do you maintain self-motivation when you experience a setback on the way to achieve
your goal? How do you do it?
14. If you find yourself working with a team that is not motivated, how do you keep yourself
motivated and motivate others?
15. Describe the work environment or culture in which you are most productive and happy.
16. Tell me about the job position that satisfied you the most. How about the least? What made each
one more or less satisfying to you?
17. What goals, including career goals, have you set for your life?
18. Describe for me a situation where you had a positive effect on someone. What did you do? How
did the other person react? Why do you think what happened, happened?
19. What is your preferred work style? Do you prefer working alone or as part of a team? What
percentage of your time would you allocate to each, given the choice?
20. Describe the actions and behaviors of your current/former manager or supervisor that you
respond to most effectively?

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