Fresh Banquet Manager Interview Preparation Guide

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I because I bring to the table most that 30 years experience in the food and beverage industry I am a people person I know how to have and handle business relationships with clients meeting planners and people in general.

I'm looking for a fresh new career and feel like this could be a great fit with my past experience. While I am closing shop, the idea of leaving events entirely makes me really sad so I love the idea that I can still be part of them but with a new perspective.

I can completely function off stress and pressure. I like to handle the situation causing the stress and pressure by getting to the bottom of it and finding a solution.

► Leadership,
► motivating and
► result oriented.

I do and I believe my time at Realtek really paved the path with my leadership skills, I ran the office of a self employed entrepenur. Then started my own business from the ground up with purchasing, building a website and doing everything I needed to do to get it going, hiring and training staff and maintaining friendships with those staff members.

This is your chance, because the ideal show them that you have the skills they require group. You have to teach them that their possession of knowledge and experience will benefit the company if the job is yours, and how your experience confirm your words. You should also tell them about your understanding of the nature of the job and its requirements. If you do this will lead them to a message that you've in your homework of good research and show them that you're interested

Questions such as this one are asked with the aim of getting you to discuss some of your qualities, perhaps hidden that you would not have mentioned if you were not asked.

Well, my colleagues will tell you they can count on me. They will tell you that I am a team player and someone they enjoy working with.

This question is similar to one way or another the previous question, you will not only be required to just talk about your skills set that fit the job requirements because they also expect you to review your self-confidence and abilities. You can also be the answer to highlight your potential personal and explain why you are better than the rest of the applicants for the job option. Tell them about previous achievements in this area and prepared them mention your interest in the company and the job.

Ever since my first paper route at age 10 I’ve been doing something to keep myself busy and earn money. Back then, it was obviously about earning some spending money. What I didn’t realize was that I was actually starting the journey of establishing what I liked to do and how I fit in to the grand scheme of things. I then worked as a junior computer tech in my last 2 summers of high school. It was here that I discovered what I was passionate about and what I wanted to do. I enrolled in college to get my degree in computer sciences, and I have been working around technology ever since.

Management interview questions like this are asked to find out what kind of leader you are. Should you ever get placed in a management role, how will you delegate the workload or teach your co-workers.

I believe the main goal of any management position is to get things done by evenly distributing the workload to the most qualified members of the team. They also make sure that each member of the team has all the resources and training that are necessary to complete the job.

In my experience delegating responsibility and authority is crucial. A team needs to be able to develop and grow as individuals and a whole, not be held back by low expectations or ego.
I believe in building a team. Each member of the team should be clear on their role, know where they fit in and feel as though they can depend on one another. I also believe in real-time feedback. If you do something wrong you should know it immediately. Regardless of right or wrong, the further removed feedback is in time, the less effective it is.

We come across a lot of difficult to please customers. There was once a client who insisted that food and beverage items must not be served by waiters from a certain ethnic background. This was quite an unpleasant request and I had to politely but firmly decline his business.

Try your best not to focus on existential, immeasurable goals. Job interviews want to know what you truly bring, and you should be able to measure the results. The best answer to this type of interview question is, “Management is about setting and reaching goals and employee/organizational relationships. I measure effectiveness by looking at the data, ensuring that I am meeting deadlines early and helping to achieve organizational growth, and keeping morale high and those under my supervision engaged and active in their tasks.”

While this is the most challenging part of my work, I do have to make sure that the team stays on the right path. I conduct quarterly reviews of their performances and provide them with council as required.

I'm really good with working under pressure and prioritizing from what's most important to what can wait or be done later. Sometimes when a client feels that something went wrong or we missed the mark (even though we feel we didn't and they for example recieved everything they (in my experience had rented) I do find it difficult to find that happy medium ground... Where the client is getting something that will make them happy and remember their experience as a good one, but at the same time not to give out so many credits or "freebies" that it really affects your bottom line.

You should already be able to deal with stress and tension so you can answer the question. Also can not simply tell them how you find the pressure was terrible because it has become part of most jobs, one has to expect that it will face many filled with pressure and tension during the career track positions. Instead, give them a positive response and tell them that you are faced with much determination to end the task, but you can answer that pressure pushes you to work better where the greater the challenge the greater the efficiency shown by the performance of your business. Nevertheless, the answer varies from one person to another. You can also directly answer such as "I train to deal with the pressures," or "I deal with the pressure across the sit alone for some time and I analyzed the question in my head."

Being self employed raised all sorts of challenges whether it's staff, clients ruining linens and having them rented out the following week, a staff member calling in sick, but you get on the internet and buy some new linens or you contact your client and let them know what happened and see if they want to pick another linen or try and subcontract it out to another decorating company. Because I didn't have many staff to fall back on, I would call upon family in tight timeline situations.

The ability to coordinate different aspects of a banquet in a manner that allow you to oversee each event easily, is what makes things stress-free. I make sure that all aspects of a banquet are managed appropriately and that each aspect is looked over several times until the event ends.

This question may be tricky and needs a lot of deliberation before answering. We must answer this question wisely, and this will be through talking about is related to the skills of the job requirements. For example,

The employer will not care about the weakness of mathematical skills that you are applying for the post of editor or publisher. You can also talk about the skills that were not good in the past, but you've improved on. For example, perhaps you're shy

Formerly introverted but now I became more

Trust and love to communicate with people around you. You do this, you made your point turning the negative into a positive.

True leadership is about personal responsibility. That is why an effective answer to this question is, “I consider anyone who works with me to be an extension of my effectiveness as manager. I will discuss any problems with the employee individually and honestly, but if their work affects the bottom line of the company, their shortcomings are also my responsibility.”

I try not to intervene too much into the work of the people I am supervising. At least, not visibly. However, I do get into the nitty gritty of things silently by inspecting table place settings such as linen, china, glass, silverware and condiments to ensure that each element is clean, undamaged and looks attractive the way they are placed.

With working in the wedding industry for the past 7 years, I have learnt all about different people and cultures. Everyone is so different in how you can relate to them, so initial meetings I would quickly feel out my consultations... How can I relate to them so they feel comfortable to trust me. Some people liked the extremely professional touch, while others preferred to think of you as their wedding best friend that would not lead them astray. It's important to learn about your clientele, for example I did a fair amount of Jewish weddings. I knew nothing about Jewish weddings but I just researched and asked questions and now I know what a chuppah is, or shabbot dinner or why their weddings are only on a sunday. I guess it comes down to taking the time to learn about different people and using personal experience as a way to adapt.

An innocent question. But a question that if answered improperly, can be a deal breaker. While many individuals will be looking to a new job as a means of increasing their salary, “not being paid well enough at your last job” is not something you want to mention to your interviewer. After all, are you not likely to leave this particular job if you found you could make more down the street?

If you’re currently employed and leaving of your own accord, craft your response around enhancing your career development and a seeking out of new challenges.

If your current employer is downsizing, be honest about it, remain positive, but keep it brief. If your employer fired you or let you go for cause, be prepared to give a brief – but honest – reply. No matter how tempting it may be, or how “unfair it was that they let you go” steer clear away from any and all drama and negativity. Any experienced employer understands that sometimes things happen. Staying positive is key here.

Be A Pro does not boast when your answer to this question and moved away from the exaggerated praise and glorify your role in this position because the interlocutor can pay attention to this. Despite the absence of the typical answer to this question, you can cure a cautious manner. Want such questions that the control on how to behave in the future if you encounter a problem, based on its judgment that the previous experiences. Start a clear explanation of the situation and the timing of its occurrence and then told them do your part in it (the solutions provided by to address the problem). Be sure to be positive and easy to understand your answer.

In your interview answer focus on how you assign tasks and responsibility to the appropriate people, how you clarify exactly what is expected, communicate confidence and ensure adequate resources are available for successful completion of the task. Include follow-up procedures and setting deadlines.