How do you welcome and orientate new employees in your department or team?
If you would hire someone for the… position, what qualities would you look for?
How many people have you hired in the last two years? For what position?
Do you have a favorite question to pose in a selection interview?
What is the first thing you look for in a curriculum or a job request?
How do you check on the references?
Tell me about your most outstanding success on hiring.
Tell me about the most important hiring mistake you have made.
How could we improve the selection process for this position?
What provokes the excessive change of personnel in an organization?
Is personnel change always harming?
How do you manage personnel evaluation?
Tell me if you had to communicate any negative evaluation.
What is your concept of discipline?
What are the most common problems and complains that come out from your personnel? How do you manage them?
How do you keep the discipline in your department or team?
Tell me how you solved a discipline problem from a subordinate.
Tell me about a time in which you had to get a team together in a very short time.
How do you specifically contribute for a good teamwork environment?
How would you define the ethical behavior of an employee?
What programs have you or company applied in order to improve the ethics among the people who provide you with information?
How do you keep your personnel informed about procedures and corporate decisions?
Describe the type of relation you consider should exist among a boss and his subordinates.
How do you manage with the assignation of human resources and the organization of projects?
How do you determine who needs additional training?
What kind of training have you offered other people? How did you evaluate their defects?
If we hire you for this job, how would you face the first thirty days?
What is biggest intellectual challenge you look in a position and why?
What do you do when you know you are right and the rest of people disagree with you?
Besides money, what else do you consider important to motivate people?
What were the most important achievements to motivate people?
Have you performed policies, new or different systems in any position you have filled?
What is the most difficult problem you have had to face? How did you solve it?
What is the most monotonous job for you?
Tell me what focus would be appropriate to develop international markets in the next three years, specially considering the financial situation of the international markets situation nowadays. (Depending on the moment in which this question is posed, it can be related to something that is happening, as the so called “tequila effect” some years ago, the problem of the oriental markets or the derivatives of the other countries of Mercosur.)
