Graduate interview questions
Graduate interviews are for final-year students, recent graduates and people applying for their first job, internship or attachment. Interviewers are looking at your potential, motivation and fit, and how fast you learn.
Draw your examples from your studies, attachment, part-time work, clubs and societies, and structure behavioural answers with the STAR method (situation, task, action, result), kept simple.
Sample questions
Salary and package "What are your salary expectations?"
Graduate
What the interviewer is looking for: A researched, realistic expectation based on the market, and flexibility.
Behavioural (STAR) "Tell me about a mistake you made and what you did about it."
Graduate
What the interviewer is looking for: Honesty, ownership, fixing it and learning.
About you and motivation "What is your biggest weakness?"
Graduate
Situational "You notice a colleague taking office supplies home regularly. What do you do?"
Graduate
Behavioural (STAR) "Tell me about a time you had to persuade someone."
Graduate
Situational "You realise you'll miss a deadline you agreed with your manager. What do you do?"
Graduate
The four answers to each question, and why one is stronger than another, are in the free practice.
Questions
What do graduate interviews focus on?
Interviewers at this level are looking at your potential, motivation and fit, and how fast you learn. Expect questions about you and your motivation, behavioural and situational questions, and questions about salary.
Where should my examples come from?
From your studies, attachment, part-time work, clubs and societies. Choose examples where you can say clearly what you did and what changed because of it.
Are these questions with answers?
Each page shows real questions from the Interview Practice Suite and, for some, what the interviewer is looking for. The four answers to each question — and why one beats another — are in the free practice: 10 questions at your level with feedback on every answer.
Answer keys are written by EunoiaData from recognised interview practice and checked by a review panel. A practice tool: it scores the answers you choose, not how you speak in a real interview. Not designed for hiring, selection or promotion decisions.