Motivation Interview Questions and Answers

The interviewer asks this question to understand how keen a candidate is towards self-improvement in the fast-paced world, performs self-assessment regularly, and adapts to changes.

Also, you can tell about a weakness that improved through continuous efforts.

While answering this question, try to be real and provide a definition that includes your past achievements, profession chosen and goes in line with the job applied. You can mention achieving a preset goal if that is in sync with the path you follow while applying for the job.

The interviewer wants to know whether the candidate's long-term goals align with the company’s interests or not and how long the candidate will stay here. So, while replying to this question, always plan the future around the position applying.

Here, you can tell about other fields that you have exposure to and tell about lifetime achievements that you would like to have in the future.

The motivation usually comes with - passion, purpose, mastery, and liberty. So, whatever be your reason make sure you look professional while answering this question.

This question tests your co-ordination with the seniors along with productivity at work. So, if you have any particular instance where you excelled then describe that. If not, then explain about the bond you used to share with your seniors while telling about your achievements at work.

Meeting deadlines is all about taking responsibility and getting work accomplished within the given timeframe.

Here you can describe any instance in your academic or professional career when you were not able to meet the given deadlines. The outcome may or may not be positive so depending upon that you need to explain the lesson you learned from that situation.

This question checks how well you bond with your colleagues at work. You should tell about the ways that you can adopt while handling a team to maintain a positive environment at work where everyone can achieve their career goals.

Setbacks are part of everyone’s life, it’s how well a person handles them that sets the momentum in favor or against in that situation. If you have experienced any major setback in life then explain about that while telling how you survived in that situation. If not, then simply explain how you keep yourself motivated about achieving your goals.

There are certain work hacks that every person uses to ensure that he/she can accomplish given tasks properly within the given timeframe. Here you can also explain a few techniques that you use. In the discovery process, you can explain that it is with experience and after you realized that there are few ways of doing similar tasks more efficiently.

There are various challenges that everyone faces while achieving a goal but it is only after you successfully deal with them only then you can move ahead. Here you can tell about your proven and tested ways of dealing with the challenges be they in your academic, professional, or personal life.

Whether in the team or alone always individual performance matters. So, you can explain that- I can work individually as well as in a team as per the requirement of the projects that are assigned to me.