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20 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MANAGING ABILITIES
Now we give you some examples of questions with comments and examples for the answers. This doesn’t mean that you MUST answer like this. These are examples for you to prepare, from them, “your” own answers. These answers are examples to illustrate this work.
1. Tell me how you see yourself as the boss of a group.
Explain in a believable way, how you make decisions, how you listen to your people, how they participate in decisions.
2. Are you responsible for the incorporation of employees?
If you have hired people before: “Yes, this is part of my responsibilities to decide about the personnel of my own department”.
If you have not hired anyone, but you have participated in the experience: “I have never been directly responsible of hiring, but I have collaborated in the selection process many times”.
3. Tell me about the people you have incorporated in your current/last job. How long did they stay with you? How did they turn to be?
Describe real situations that in your judgment have been satisfactory. Think about the details in which you feel that your participation was determining to get a favorable result.
4. How do you proceed when you have problems among members of your team? Give me an example.
The current trend is participating management; based on it, we have elaborated the following answer: “I would begin by listening to each of them separately and the group as a whole. Once…”.
5. What are your virtues in relation with your subordinates?
The answer to this question must be careful, not exaggerated for good or bad. But I will answer it fairly with the following one.
6. What are your weaknesses in relation with your subordinates?
Try to give an objective image of yourself; don’t exaggerate your virtues and don’t be excessively modest. As for weaknesses, don’t number weaknesses that can be disguised virtues. If you can think of none, simply say: “It is possible that I have defects, but I get a good environment with my subordinates, maybe you should ask them”.
7. What should your current/previous employer have done in order to make the company more successful?
Give correct ideas that you honestly think that can be positive. Don’t state them as direct critics or ones that show emotional commitment. Or: “If in… he would have listened to me, then it wouldn’t have been like that”. These types of phrases are not friendly even when they can be true. You always have to give a positive image.
8. Tell me about the communication within your company (current/last).
It is always expected from people to have good communication. Think of concrete and real facts, in which, in your opinion, you have had a positive communication with subordinates as well as with superiors and people in the same level. Having examples at hand can be useful.
9. Have you decided to fire employees? Why? In what situations?
The firing of people is one of the highest costs every manager should assume. Therefore, a manager is expected not to be indifferent to the situation, but to assume it in the sake of the fulfillment of the company’s objectives. “Probably, firing is the most difficult task, once I had to…, it was difficult since I knew this person for… I did it and, in general terms, everything turned out right”.
10. How do you face a serious problem? Give me an example.
This question is directed to a manager or a possible manager or supervisor. Therefore, the answer is not that you will present the problem to the boss. Even in the cases in which the necessary decision to solve a problem should be consulted with a superior, you are expected to provide a solution.
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