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• Do you have pets?
• What is the most adventurous or dangerous thing you’ve
done?
• What is the one thing you want to experience/accomplish
in your life?
• What is your proudest accomplishment?
• Who is/was the most influential person in your life and
why?

PROFESSIONAL
• Can you provide a brief overview of your work history,
beginning with your very first job?
• What was your favorite job and why?
• What was your worst job and why?
• Who was your most influential mentor, and what did he or
she teach you?
• What is the best career advice you ever received?
• What advice would you give to someone just beginning
his or her career?
• What is the best part about your current job?
• What is the most challenging part of your current job?
• What are your professional goals?
• What are your “push buttons”—the things that people do
or say that make you see red or become defensive?
• At your retirement dinner, what are three things that you
would want others to say about you?
• In terms of your career, if you had the chance to do it all
over again, what would you do differently?

What else would be important for others to know to fully under-
stand you?