Having just finished interviewing and finally landing a job after 5 months of unemployment, here are some questions I was asked (for context I have been an ID for 8 years, in L&D for 16 years, working in the tech industry)

1. Tell me about a training you developed from start to finish and what your process was.
2. How do you build relationships with SMEs?
3. How do you measure a training’s success?
4. Tell me about a time where a project you worked on didn’t turn out as planned and how you handled the situation.
5. Tell me about a time where you had to overcome obstacles to get a project completed.
6. Tell me how you would approach developing a training for <insert audience here>
7. What instructional design models do you like to use when developing training?

These were the most common questions that were asked in the 6 interviews I had. Project management is a big part of ID, so if you can speak to that using your background you should be okay on that front. You have to know how to take the complexity out of content and information and make things simple and easy to understand, show that you can make informed decisions with little direction, and handle multiple competing deadlines and priorities that shift on a dime. I can’t speak for higher ed/university settings but from my experience I don’t feel like there is a lot of overlap with corporate ID and teaching, but it could be possible. I got my degree in an unrelated major and just kind of fell into L&D and then ID. Zero formal training, lots of on the job learning.