☛ Do you enjoy working with deadlines?

☛ You may have multiple deadlines to complete your tasks. When have you been in such an environment and how did you handle it?

☛ In your current or former position, what were your long and short term goals?

☛ Give an example of an important goal that you set in the past. Tell about your success in reaching it.

☛ What made you decide on a career in bookkeeping?

☛ Name three positive traits you already have and would most like to build upon.

☛ What motivates you to perform your best?

☛ What is the toughest group that you have had to get cooperation from?

☛ When given a new bookkeeping assignment, how do you approach it?

☛ What do you know about our company?

☛ What do you do when priorities change quickly? Give one example of when this happened.

☛ When a mistake is made by you, who is usually the one to notice? The auditor, or yourself?

☛ Are you proficient using the 10 key pad?

☛ What do you believe is an area of weakness for you, and what have you been doing to improve upon it?

☛ How do you stay focused during a long day?

☛ Outside of inputting sales and expenses, what other accounting tasks have you completed before?

☛ How proficient are you with Excel? Please share with me some projects you created, and regular accounting tasks you completed on excel.

☛ What is your personal method for double checking your work?

☛ If I were to look at your home office, or previous work station before you left, what would it look like?

☛ What accounting tasks did you perform at your former job?