HR Officer Question:

☛ What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?
☛ Describe experience supervising other employees. How do you measure your effectiveness in this area?
☛ What would your last boss say about you?
☛ Describe how you like to be managed, and the best relationship you’ve had with a previous boss.
☛ What do you do when you know you are right and your boss disagrees with you? Give me an example.
☛ If your colleagues had an opportunity to tell us your primary strength-what would that be? And, your primary weakness-what would that be?
☛ Describe your experience working with highly confidential information. How would you handle an employee who requests “confidential” information from you?
☛ As a component of this position, you may have to work on a team on certain projects. Describe when you’ve worked on a team before and what, in your opinion, constitutes an effective team? What do you expect from others on the team and what do you need from others on the team?
☛ What do you do when others resist of reject your ideas or actions?
☛ Give me an example of a time when you had to deal with a difficult colleague. How did you handle this?
☛ Explain the phrase “work ethic” and describe yours.
☛ What goals did you set for yourself during your last position? Did you achieve your goals?
☛ What methods do you use to make decisions? When do you find it most difficult to make a decision?
☛ Under what kinds of conditions do you learn best?
☛ To you, which is more desirable: A business that is run in an efficient business-like manner OR a business that is run in a personal and friendly way?