Interview Questions

I'm a member on the Yahoo group peacecorps2. In the groups "files" section is a bunch of interview questions that people have had before. Some are for couples, some for vegetarians, and others are general interview questions for everyone. I don't know how accurate they are (I'll try to remember to report back after my interview), but they're good questions to review before my interview.

• Why the Peace Corps?
• Why do you want to volunteer?
• Why the areas of volunteer work you chose?
• Do you have any experience in those fields?
• What's rewarding about your volunteer work and what have you learned from it?
• Give an example of a leadership position you had
• Describe a situation where you had to exhibit or use leadership skills.
• Have you ever had to take leadership in an unstructured setting?
• In your leadership position(s), how did you train or lead people?
• Tell about an experience when you were able to transfer some knowledge or skill to someone who was different from yourself.
• What did you learn about your interpersonal skills from that experience?
• What did you learn about the other person?
• Tell about a time when you worked in an unstructured or ambiguous situation?
• How did you approach the task at hand? What did you learn about your personal strengths from that experience?
• How do you deal with confrontation?
• Discuss a situation where you had to make a difficult decision and how people dealt with it/ you dealt with it.
• What frustrates you and how do you deal with it?
• What causes the most stress in your life and how do you deal with it?
• How do you feel about any of the following:
• How do you think you could deal with that?
• Living somewhere with no running water or no hot water?
• Living somewhere isolated?
• Being away from home and family?
• Trying new foods?
• Being in a country that has alcohol as a key drink?
• Being in a country with no alcohol?
• Being in a country with strict gender roles?
• Being in a country with a lack of privacy?
• Being isolated?
• Being in a country with possible minority challenges?
• How long have you been away from home before?
• What do you do for fun?
• Have you ever had French/Spanish? How would you feel about learning it now?
• Do you have a religious preference of the country you go to?
• Explain your preferences for geographic locations and jobs.
• Are you in a relationship? Tell me about it. (if so, you will have an additional form to complete)
• How does PC fit into your long term career/life goals?
• I said I was interested in the PC Fellows program, and she wanted to know which one and why.
• Tell me about a time when you had to change or modify your behavior to fit in culturally.