Practice Topics
FUN & LIGHT TOPICS
1. What is one of your favorite topics of conversation?
2. What is something that amazes you?
3. What made you smile in the last two weeks?
4. What is something funny that has happened to you?
5. What is something you have always wanted to learn?
6. What is one of your favorite places in the world?
7. What new tool or app do you think needs to be invented?
8. What has been the highlight of your week so far?
9. What do you have on your refrigerator door?
10. What is the most beautiful sound in the world?
11. What is the best, worst, or funniest job you have ever had?
12. When was the last time you laughed so hard that you cried? Explain.
13. What is the strangest food you have ever tried?
14. What is a fun experience that you have recently had?
15. Describe your dream car.
WORK-RELATED TOPICS
1. What communication skills are important in the performance of your job?
2. How do you establish a rapport with your potential clients or customers?
3. How would you define good customer service?
4. What are some of your strengths that you bring to your work?
5. What is the biggest work-related mistake you’ve made? What lessons did you learn?
6. Describe a challenging situation in your current job and explain how you handled it.
7. Describe a specific example of a time when you took the initiative.
8. How would you describe your ideal work environment? What environments allow you to be especially effective?
9. What do you hope to be doing two years from now? (short-term goals)
10. Where do you see yourself in five years? (long-term goals)
SELF REFLECTION TOPICS
1. What are your hopes for what the future holds for you?
2. What has been your greatest accomplishment so far?
3. What is one of your greatest motivators in life?
4. What is something you wold like to do more of?
5. What is something you know really well?
6. What is a goal you plan on accomplishing this year?
7. What is the most adventurous thing you have ever done?
8. What is an interesting skill that you have?
9. What part of yourself would you like to improve?
10. What would your closest friend say is your best character trait?
DEEPER TOPICS
1. What are you grateful for?
2. If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?
3. What is one personality trait you admire in others?
4. What is one thing life is teaching you right now?
5. What are people usually surprised to find out about you?
6. What is one thing you expect from a friendship?
7. What is a time you learned something from failure?
8. What is one thing you want to accomplish in your lifetime?
9. What is an idea you strongly believe in?
10. What is one crucial ingredient for true happiness?
[Note: The Fun &Light, Self Reflection, and Deeper topics come from the We! Connect Cards deck. The Work-Related topics comes from Interview Answers in a Flash, 2nd edition.]