Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Experience and Education Supervision and Management Experience

Experience and Education

Education
 
How have your educational and work experiences prepared you for this position?
Why did you choose to major in the course that you have completed or that you are attending?
What aspect of your education applies to this position?
What have you done outside of formal education to improve yourself?
What training opportunities have you taken advantage of and why?
What additional training will we have to provide for you if we hire you?
 Experience

1. Tell us about yourself.
2. How are you qualified for this job?
3. How does your current job qualify you for this position?
4. How does your experience qualify you for this job? 5. Describe a typical day at your present position.
6. Tell us about a specific area of responsibility that you have enjoyed.
7. What were your three greatest accomplishments on your last job?
8. What are some of the things on your current job you have done well?
9. What have you learned from the jobs you've had?
10. What is the most difficult assignment you have had?
11. What accomplishment on the job are you the most proud of?
12. What steps have you taken to improve your job skills?
13. What significant contributions have you made to the operation of your work group?
14. How has your current position prepared you to take on greater responsibilities?
15. What makes you more qualified than the other candidates?
16. Why do you want to leave your current job?
17. How has your job prepared you to take on greater responsibility? 18. Tell us about your qualifications for this position.
19. What actions have you taken in the past years to prepare you for this position?
20. What steps have you taken in the past two years to improve your qualifications?
21. In the areas where your experience falls short for this job, what steps will you take to make up for this
shortfall?
22. Describe yourself. What skills and abilities do you have?
23. Recall an incident where you made a major mistake. What did you do after the mistake was made?
What did you learn from this mistake?
24. What is the greatest failure you've had? What would you have done differently?
25. What action on the job are you the least proud of?
26. Tell us about a difficult situation that you encountered and how you resolved it. 27. Please tell us about the most difficult job-related task you have faced.

Supervision and Management Experience

What experience have you had in supervision?
What is the role of a supervisor?
What experience have you had in resolving grievances?
What experience have you had in investigating discrimination/sexual harassment complaints?
What do you like the best about supervision? What do you like the least about supervision?


7. What has been your most positive experience in supervision?
8. What has been your most negative experience in supervision?
9. Which aspect of supervision did you feel the most comfortable with? 10. Which aspect of supervision did you feel the least comfortable with?
11. Give us an example of a situation that you handled which would demonstrate your ability to supervise.
12. Have you had any experience in applying the provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act?
13. Having supervisory experience you may have run into problems with a member of your staff. What
type of problem did you encounter and how did you handle it?
14. What aspect of supervision is most difficult for you and why?
15. What aspect of supervision is the easiest for you and why?
16. Tell us about your most difficult supervisory experience and how did you handle it?
17. Tell us about your most difficult supervisory experience and what did you learn from it?
18. Have you hired staff? What qualities did you look for?
19. Tell us about your experience in supervising clerical staff.
20. What experience have you had in supervising field workers?
21. Tell us about your experience in supervising professional staff. 22. Tell us about your experience in supervising technical staff.
23. Have you had an opportunity to supervise staff in a number of different functions, such as professional
and clerical? Tell us about your experience.
24. Have you supervised volunteers? Tell us about your experience.
25. Under which circumstances would you refer an employee to the employee assistance program?
26. What is the most challenging situation that you've had with your subordinate supervisors? How did you
handle it?
27. How would you assess your ability as a supervisor?
28. Describe your most ideal and least ideal boss?
29. What work-related items have you been criticized for in the past two years?
30. What characteristics are most important in a good manager/supervisor? How have you displayed
them?

Judgment

1. Describe a project that best demonstrates your analytical ability?
2. Tell us about a situation where you made a mistake. How did you handle the mistake and what was
the resolution?
3.     Under what circumstances should you bypass your supervisor and go to your supervisor's supervisor?
4.     Give us a situation that illustrates your ability to exercise good judgment.
5.     In instances where you are required to assert yourself, what do you do to assert yourself effectively? 6.     Tell us of a time work quality had been compromised due to time constraints or resource constraints.



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