Describe your own strengths, particularly those strengths that will help you to excel in this field.

What classroom experiences do you feel have best prepared you for a career in this field?

What are your long term career goals?

How do you plan on incorporating lifelong learning into your career?

Describe a time when you had to deal with a situation with ambiguity, how did you work through this?

Tell me about the most complex project you have taken on. How did it turn out?

What experiences have you had related to research?

What qualities do you have that make you an effective researcher?

Give me a specific example of a time when you used good judgment and logic in solving a problem.

Do you become frustrated by others who do have your level of competency in math?

How do you see math/physics being utilized in everyday life?

How would you incorporate problem solving in the teaching of math?

Solving a problem often requires the evaluation of alternate solutions. Give me an example of a time when you defined several solutions to a single problem. What tools, i.e. research, brainstorming, techniques did you use?

Tell me about a time when your analysis of a problem was incorrect.

What do you know about (name the recruiter’s company)?

Aside from classroom texts and experimentation, what journals or professional articles are you currently reading for professional development?

You have prepared a report for the organization’s advisory board. All the facts included in the report have been documented, checked, and double-checked. However, one of the supervisors states that the report is incorrect and demands that you make the correction. What is your response?