Interview Questions to Ask Seasonal Job Candidates

If you’re preparing to hire seasonal employees, give these interview questions a try. These interview questions are a good starting point to develop your interview guide for seasonal jobs.  

 Sample Interview Questions to Ask Seasonal Job Candidates

• Why did you apply for a seasonal job? What attracted you to the position?
  
  
• This job requires that you work on __________ days during _________ hours. Are you available to work this type of schedule?
  
  
• Tell me what you know about our [company, brand, product or service]. How does working here on a seasonal basis work with over all goals?
  
  
• What are your plans for after the season is over?
  
  
• During our busy season, we experience  a lot of _______. Can you tell me about a time you had to deal with a similar situation, how you handled it and what was the outcome?
  
  
• One of our most important core values as a business is __________. We expect all employees, permanent and seasonal to demonstrate this value to our clients. In previous jobs or volunteer roles how have you demonstrated __________?
  
  
• What do you like about working in/with _______? (Example: What you like about working with children? Or What do you like about working in retail?)
  
  
• How important is it to you to follow through with your commitments. Can you give me an example of a time when you did not want to follow through on a commitment but you did anyway?
  
  
•  Working together well on a team is very important. Tell me about a time when you joined a new team or group at work, school or elsewhere, that required you to build relationships quickly in order to be successful.
  
  
•  Can you give me an example of a time you had to learn something new either on a  job or at school quickly. How to go about learning it?

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