Interviewer Questions - Company
Questions that the company may ask in an Interview:
- What kind of supervisor do you work best for? Provide examples.
- What two or three things are most important to you in your job?
- Recall a time from your work experience when your manager or supervisor was unavailable and a problem arose. What was the nature of the problem? How did you handle that situation? How did that make you feel?
- Give an example of a time in which you had to be relatively quick in coming to a decision.
- Tell of the most difficult customer service experience that you have ever had to handle -- perhaps an angry or irate customer. Be specific and tell what you did and what was the outcome.
- What, in your opinion, are the key ingredients in guiding and maintaining successful business relationships?
- What are the most important rewards you expect to gain from your career?
- Tell of a time when your active listening skills really paid off for you -- maybe a time when other people missed the key idea being expressed.
- What sorts of things have you done to become better qualified for your career?
- What level of compensation would it take to make you happy?
Interviewee Questions - Canidate
Questions that you should considering asking your future employer:
- What is the department head's leadership style? How often would we interact?
- Could you describe a typical day or week in this position? The typical client or customer I would be dealing with? The expectations To determine how and when you will evaluated, Payne recommend advises asking:
- What are the main challenges associated with the team?
- What is the company's management style?
- What would you consider to be the most important aspects of this job?
- How would you describe your organization's personality and management style?
- What makes your firm, hospital, school system, ad agency, etc., different?
- Would you like to hear what I could do to really help your department?
- Describe typical first year assignments on the job.
- What would I go to work on first, and what would my function be?