These are from yesterday's panel interview at the small social service agency. They gave me 20 minutes to prepare, which I really appreciated. Still, a couple threw me off...
1. What interests you most about our mission and work?
2. What specifically interests you about the job? (note: is that redundant?)
3. This position requires a high level of project management skill. Please walk us through some examples of your project management experience. Also, tell us about your project management strengts. tell us about some challenges or difficulties you have faced in project management.
4. As part of your responsibilities in project management, you will need to balance long-term, medium-term and immediate-term projects, including projects that require input from other internal and external parties. What would your approach be to prioritizing these projects and getting them completed in a timely manner?
5. Give us an example of a time that you worked multiple stakeholders with whom you had very little leverage with. How did you build and manage these partnerships towards positive outcomes?
6. Tell us about a time when you were able to successfully propose a strategy or plan to your team or someone in a leadership position?
7. How would you work with a group that had competing agendas? For example, in our work, we see opposing agendas played out between community colleges whose end goal is for a student to complete a certificate of degree while the community-based agency working with the low-income individual wants to see them find a living wage job, regardless if they complete training.
8. Tell us about your public speaking experience. What were the topics you spoke about or presented on? How large was the audience? Describe your approach or strategy when presenting complex ideas? What are some of the presentation techniques you use? What is your experience in designing trainings?
9. How would you describe your facilitation style? Give us an example.
10. Describe a situation where there was a disagreement with your approach to a problem. How did you resolve it?
11. What is the best management advice o lessons or have learned about recently? How have you incorporated the advice or lessons into your work?
12. This organization has a reputation and takes great price in being an innovator.... Please tell us about yoru experience in innovation and in particular about managing the "tensions" inherent in innovation.
13. Please tell us about the ways in which you have contributed to the improvement of a system or process in a previous role/ What approach or strategy did you use to assess and implement the improvements?
I think I collapsed from exhaustion by the time I got to this question.
They also asked two bonus question not previewed beforehand:
X14. What is your experience working with diverse populations?
X15. What have not asked you that we should have?
QUESTIONS FROM LAST WEEK'S INTERVIEW
1. What interests you in this position?
2. What are some common barriers homeless youth and young adults may experience?
3. Describe your knowledge of Young Adult housing resources in the county.
4. What experience do you have working directly with service providers on behalf of clients? How do you manage the needs and realities of clients with the needs and realities of the service providers?
5. Please give an example of an ethical dilemma you've experienced and how you handled the situation.
6. Please describe your familiarity with [this program] and the people it will impact?
7. This is a new program nd will require a lot of flexibility. Please give an example of your experience in a work environment that changed policies and processes quickly or routinely.
8. Do you have experience working with [these computer programs']? What databases have you worked with?
9. We believe employees and volunteers should work in and contribute to an environment that fosters respect and teamwork. Please describe a time when working as part of a team you experienced either a positive or negative outcome. How did it influence you in your work?
10. This organization acknowledges the pervasiveness of racism in American society, institutions, and communities. We are committed to making our services, agencies, and communities free of divisive and dehumanizing ravages of racism. As part of that commitment, we are aggressively addressing this issue with the recent development of a new diversity/inclusion training. This training is delivered to new employees as part of orientation.... blah blah....
1. What interests you most about our mission and work?
2. What specifically interests you about the job? (note: is that redundant?)
3. This position requires a high level of project management skill. Please walk us through some examples of your project management experience. Also, tell us about your project management strengts. tell us about some challenges or difficulties you have faced in project management.
4. As part of your responsibilities in project management, you will need to balance long-term, medium-term and immediate-term projects, including projects that require input from other internal and external parties. What would your approach be to prioritizing these projects and getting them completed in a timely manner?
5. Give us an example of a time that you worked multiple stakeholders with whom you had very little leverage with. How did you build and manage these partnerships towards positive outcomes?
6. Tell us about a time when you were able to successfully propose a strategy or plan to your team or someone in a leadership position?
7. How would you work with a group that had competing agendas? For example, in our work, we see opposing agendas played out between community colleges whose end goal is for a student to complete a certificate of degree while the community-based agency working with the low-income individual wants to see them find a living wage job, regardless if they complete training.
8. Tell us about your public speaking experience. What were the topics you spoke about or presented on? How large was the audience? Describe your approach or strategy when presenting complex ideas? What are some of the presentation techniques you use? What is your experience in designing trainings?
9. How would you describe your facilitation style? Give us an example.
10. Describe a situation where there was a disagreement with your approach to a problem. How did you resolve it?
11. What is the best management advice o lessons or have learned about recently? How have you incorporated the advice or lessons into your work?
12. This organization has a reputation and takes great price in being an innovator.... Please tell us about yoru experience in innovation and in particular about managing the "tensions" inherent in innovation.
13. Please tell us about the ways in which you have contributed to the improvement of a system or process in a previous role/ What approach or strategy did you use to assess and implement the improvements?
I think I collapsed from exhaustion by the time I got to this question.
They also asked two bonus question not previewed beforehand:
X14. What is your experience working with diverse populations?
X15. What have not asked you that we should have?
QUESTIONS FROM LAST WEEK'S INTERVIEW
1. What interests you in this position?
2. What are some common barriers homeless youth and young adults may experience?
3. Describe your knowledge of Young Adult housing resources in the county.
4. What experience do you have working directly with service providers on behalf of clients? How do you manage the needs and realities of clients with the needs and realities of the service providers?
5. Please give an example of an ethical dilemma you've experienced and how you handled the situation.
6. Please describe your familiarity with [this program] and the people it will impact?
7. This is a new program nd will require a lot of flexibility. Please give an example of your experience in a work environment that changed policies and processes quickly or routinely.
8. Do you have experience working with [these computer programs']? What databases have you worked with?
9. We believe employees and volunteers should work in and contribute to an environment that fosters respect and teamwork. Please describe a time when working as part of a team you experienced either a positive or negative outcome. How did it influence you in your work?
10. This organization acknowledges the pervasiveness of racism in American society, institutions, and communities. We are committed to making our services, agencies, and communities free of divisive and dehumanizing ravages of racism. As part of that commitment, we are aggressively addressing this issue with the recent development of a new diversity/inclusion training. This training is delivered to new employees as part of orientation.... blah blah....
- A. Could you please tell us about an experience you have had with co-workers from a racial background different from yoru won? Why did you choose to share this experience?
- What situation best describes your work with clients from racially diverse populations?
They asked a few more, but I'm tired of transcribing...
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