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Executive interview questions

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Tell me about yourself?


Why did you leave your last job?
What is your greatest weakness?
What experience do you have in Executive field?
What have you done to improve your Executive knowledge in the last year?
What have you learned from mistakes on the Executive job?
What did you do to increase company revenues at your current company?

8. Tell me how you have created a shared purpose among people who initially differed in
opinions or objectives.
9. Tell me how you handled a major challenge at the workplace?
10. Which management style or philosophy describes you best: authoritarian or
participative?
11. What are the methods you typically use to evaluate an employees job performance?
12. Give me an example of when you had to provide feedback to a staff member who was
performing poorly, how did you go about this and what was the outcome?
13. Tell me about an important assignment or task that you delegated. How did you ensure
that it would be completed successfully?
14. What methods have you used to evaluate employees job performance?
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16. How have your job responsibilities evolved since your joined your present employer?
17. Describe your ideal job?
18. Tell me about a time in which you brought productive change to a company. How did you
implement this change?
19. What is your approach to dealing with recalcitrant staff?
20. Describe your experience reading and interpreting accounting and financial reports.
21. Give us an example of a method you have used to successfully encourage/motivate your
staff.
22. Share with us how you would boost morale amongst your staff to extract the best
possible effort they can present as individuals and as a team.
23. What is the most difficult thing about being an executive or manager?
24. How do you motivate your staff?
25. In what ways have you been fiscally responsible to a company or organization without
stifling innovative ideas that could possibly increase profits?
26. What is the most demanding aspect of being a part of administration and/or upper
management?
27. How did you define success when you were in college? How do you define it now?
28. In a group setting, are you generally a leader or a follower?
29. Tell me about a tough decision you had to make recently at work , how did you go about
making the decision?
30. Tell me about the steps you took to establish rapport with a new staff member?
31. What experience do you have in setting budgets?
32. What makes you think you will fit in with our company?
33. What three words describe you?
34. Describe a time you had to provide training or coaching to different staff members on the
same tasks?
35. How would you describe your management style?
36. What do you look for in an employee? What behaviors and performances do you expect
of an ideal employee?
37. Describe a time when you confronted an employee whose results were inadequate.
38. Give me an example of how your major weakness has caused problems at your job?

39. Give me an example of when you successfully motivated your staff using incentives or
rewards?
40. How well networked are you with peers in this and other industries?
41. Describe a situation where you had to become a mediator for two or more employees
that you supervised. What was the outcome? And, what measures did you take to ensure the
issue(s) wouldnt arise again in the future?
42. According to you, whats the major issue facing this industry today? How will you handle
it?
43. How much leeway do you need in decision making?
44. What are monitoring methods for executive level?
45. What made you choose to apply to executiveposition?
46. What are key tasks for executiveposition?
47. What are top 3 knowledge/top 3 skills for executiveposition?
48. What tertiary qualifications have you attained that related to executiveposition?
49. What is the most recent skill you have learned that related to executiveposition?
50. Do you have any questions?

II. Executive interview answer tips


1. Identify key goals, tasks, job specs and attributes for Executive positions then ask
question: How to do, how to become
2. Listen job interview questions carefully, then ask by your-self: what are things related to
Executive field before answering.
3. Always ask by yourself: What are proofs that are required for this position?
4. Make a full list of interview questions for Executive field: specialized interview questions,
common interview questions, interview tips, interview thank you letters, types of job
interview questions

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