INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (8 of 8)

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (8 of 8)

176. How do you feel your subordinates would describe you as a delegator?

177. What specific behaviors do you think contribute to your effectiveness as a supervisor?

178. How important is it for you to move up in management?

179. How would you compare your oral skills to your written skills?

180. What's one thing that should never be communicated in a memo or e-mail?

181. Tell me what you have learned about reducing employee turnover.

182. Describe a situation that required you to use fact-finding skills.

183. How many projects can you handle at a time?

184. In what ways have you improved in your capacity for planning?

185. Do you have a favorite interviewing question?

186. How do you maintain discipline within your department or team?

187. How do you keep abreast of new development in information technology?

188. Do you have any questions?

189. When can you start?

190. May I contact your present employer and references?

191. When will you know it's time to leave this organization?

192. How do you handle rejection?

193. Were you ever dismissed from a job for a reason that seemed unjustified?

194. What kinds of things do you worry about?

195. Can you name three new skills, techniques, or methodologies you learned in the past twelve months?

196. Are you generally lucky or unlucky?

197. What do you do when your boss loads you down with a great deal of work and not enough time to do it in?

198. What do you do when there is a decision to be made and no procedure exists?

199. How would you finish this sentence: "Most people are basically...?"

200. Is there anything else I should know about you?

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (7 of 8)

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (7 of 8)

151. Are you able to predict a people's behavior based on your reading of them?
152. As a member of a team, how do you handle a team member who is not pulling his or her weight?
153. What's more important to you, truth or comfort?
154. At what time is it better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission?
155. Have you learned more from your mistakes or your successes?
156. Is honesty always the best policy?
157. How has your tolerance for accepting mistakes from your subordinates changed over the years?
158. You want to go swimming in a pool. The water is a little colder than comfortable. Are you the type of person who jumps in or do you wade in?
159. How will you handle the least interesting or pleasant tasks of this job?
160. Your supervisor tells you to do something in a manner you are convinced is wrong. What would you do?
161. What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news?
161. If you were on a magazine cover, what would the magazine be and what would the headline say?
163. What kinds of things do you worry about?
164. Is the customer always right?
165. What is the most significant compliment anyone has ever paid you?
166. Are you the type of person who likes to make lists or strike items off lists?
167. What's the difference between a manager and a leader?
168. How can we best reward you?
169. What are some of your pet peeves?
170. How do you define employee morale?
171. What programs have you implemented to build morale?
172. How do you keep your staff informed of new developments?
173. How did you prepare for this interview?
174. Which spreadsheet programs do you prefer to work with?
175. Describe a problem that you solved using employee involvement?

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (6 of 8)

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (6 of 8)

126. What have been the biggest success and biggest mistake of your career?

127. What was the most useful criticism you ever received?

128. Describe the best person you ever worked for or who worked for you.

129. If your boss could wave a magic wand over you, what aspect of your performance would be fine-tuned?

130. Please rank the following from most important to least: duties, hours, location, pay, work environment.

131. What do you do when things are slow at work?

132. How important is it for you to learn new skills?

133. What is more important to you: the salary or the challenge?

134. Do you generally clear your desk at the end of each day?

135. I'd like to hear about what you want to be when you grow up.

136. Would you rather formulate a plan or carry it out?

137. What was the last business or management book you read and what did you learn?

138. What strategies do you use when you have a great deal of work to accomplish and not much time to do it?

139. Do you anticipate problems or react to them?

140. Would you describe yourself as a risk taker or someone who plays it safe?

141. What problems do you have getting along with others?

142. What kinds of people do you prefer to work with?

143. What kinds of people do you find difficult to work with?

144. Tell me about a time when you said no to someone who asked you to drop everything to help out.

145. How do you operate as a team player?

146. How do you deal with people with different backgrounds and value systems different from your own?

147. What good or bad work habits did you pick up from your first job?

148. Describe your approach to evaluating risks.

149. What is one thing a teammate can say that is guaranteed to make you lose confidence in him or her?

150. Have you developed any special techniques for brainstorming?