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Management level hires are crucial to every organization. Managers set and track business
goals, train and motivate employees and ultimately take responsibility for the company
and/or divisional performance.
Most companies can’t afford to make a bad hire at the management level. Hence they will
ask you most of these interview questions.
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Work history and experience questions
These questions find out how your background relates to the open position.
1. Tell me your story. How did you get from the start of your career to your last role?
2. Tell me about your leadership experience.
3. What was the age, gender and race makeup of the last team you managed?
Behavioural questions
These questions help the company predict your future by evaluating previous behaviour in
past roles.
4. Can you tell me about a time when a member of your team made a mistake? How
did you handle it?
5. What would you do differently next time?
6. What was the reaction after that happened?
Soft skills and motivation questions
These questions will help the company understand if you can work collaboratively and
manage diverse teams.
7. What was the best day at work you’ve had in the past three months?
8. What was the worst day you’ve had at work in the past three months?
9. What’s your plan for building rapport and credibility with your new team?
10. How do you stay in contact with your team members?
11. What’s your process for prioritizing tasks during busy times?
Competency-based questions
These questions are designed to help the company quickly evaluate your skills and mindset
by measuring how they handle certain situations.
12. How do you find opportunities to integrate management goals within your team?
13. What’s your definition of an awesome manager?
14. What criteria did your last company use to reward employees?
15. Who was the last person you promoted? What prompted you to promote them?
16. How many people did you promote on your last team?
17. How important are deadlines?
18. How do you handle missed deadlines?
19. How do you give helpful feedback?
20. Tell me about a time you had to give some difficult feedback.
21. How would you help prevent employee burnout
