Career Guru India

Questions you may ask in the interview

Are you ready?

• What are the most important skills and attributes you are looking for in filling this position?
• What would be a typical working day for this position?
• How many hours of work per week would be required to be successful?
• What is the organization structure of your department?
• How would you describe your company culture?
• What are your organizational values? How do these values influence your decision-making?
• What is your vision for your department over the next two to three years?
• What major challenges are you currently facing as a manager?
• What is your competitive advantage in the marketplace?
• What makes your company better than your competitors?
• What are the areas where your competitors are better than your company?
• Who do you consider your customers to be?
• What is your value proposition to your customers?
• What business problems keep you awake at night?
• Can you tell me more about the other people in the organization I would be working with? Can I meet with any of them before accepting an offer of employment?
• What would you consider to be exceptional performance from someone performing in this position in the first 90 days?
• What is the internal perception of pursuing further education, such as a Master’s degree?
• What is your management style?
• How do you typically make decisions?
• What is your preferred method of communicating with your team?
• How are you measured as a manager?
• What can I do to make you successful?
• How long have you been with the organization?
• What has been your career path within the organization?
• What will be the measurements of my success in this position?
• Do you have an employee stock purchase plan? Do you participate?
• Who are the primary constituencies that you are responsible to support? Shareholders? Customers? Employees?
• How do you make decisions which conflict with the needs of these different constituencies?
• How does the pressure of Wall Street expectations affect the short-term decision-making among managers?
• What are the organizational goals?
• What are the metrics used to measure whether or not you are achieving your goals?
• How far out into the future is the organization planning?
• Do you have strategic planning within your organization? How often is it done? Who participates? What is the typical planning time horizon?
• How are new strategic initiatives communicated to the organization?
• Is your department considered to be a profit center or cost center? What are the financial expectations of the department?
• Do you have control over your own budget? How is the initial budget amount determined?
• Are budgets made at a centralized location, then rolled down, or decentralized, then rolled up?
• What is your approach with regard to the use of technology?
• Is there anyone within your organization who is considered to be a thought leader within the industry? What is it about that person that makes him/her a thought leader?
• What is the next step in the interviewing process?