CASE 1: VICE PRESIDENT INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. What do you know about the job that you have applied for?
2. What do you know about our company?
3. What can you tell us about your role in your previous company?
4. What achievements did you make during this job?
5. How do you think that your previous experience relates to our company?
6. How important was communicating with others in you previous job?
7. Have you managed teams before?
8. Why are you leaving your current job?
9. What would you say are your special characteristics that you will bring of
relevance to this position?
10.Do you consider yourself successful? Can you give us some examples
please?
11.How do you go about motivating your staff?
12.Can you describe a successful IT project that you have worked on please?
13.What do you see are the important things that a company such as ours
should be concerned with in managing our IT program?
14. How would you ensure a secure and dynamic IT environment for our
company?
15.What do you think we should be trying to do with our IT in terms of
creating better business value for our customers?
16. How are you able to liaise with our HQ in the States yet service our
specific business needs in this region?
17.What resources do you need to perform in this role very well?
18.We are planning to open two new markets in the very near future: these
are Thailand & India. How would you see yourself being able to help us
establish the IT infrastructure for these new offices?
19. Given that we plan to have new shipping as well as air cargo handling
operations in these centres do you think that you can develop a complete
IT strategy for these operations for us?
20.How would you plan to bring yourself up to speed in terms of our
proprietary software and IT operations?
21.You will be supervising a small direct team of programming and
technical staff of six people and looking after the operations of our SEA
region - what salary are you expecting for this job?
22. What do you think is important for a company like ours to focus on with
regards to our IT program?
 CASE 1: HR MANAGER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Can you outline your IT experience for us please?

2. Can you elaborate your promotion history please?
3. What do you think might be the keys to success for this position?
4. How do you remain effective when you are faced with competing
priorities or difficult situations?
5. How do you deal with conflict with others?
6. How do you plan and organise for long term projects?
7. What do you think are the keys to management success?
8. What do you think is the most difficult aspect of management in this job?
What strategy would you use to overcome these factors?
9. Describe your working style?
10.Give us some examples of work you enjoy doing the most?
11.Similarly can you tell us the work that you enjoy doing the least?
12. We are in a unique position to be an American company with a
significant presence in Asia – Do you think that you can work for an
American company in this situation? Have you had any relevant prior
experience?
13.The job will entail significant travel commitment from you – are you
willing to travel? How much?
14.Our senior executives are a mix of Americans and local country
managers. We have a policy of appointing locally to senior management
posts whenever we can. However, we still have Americans in some senior
posts throughout the region. How do you relate with Americans.
15. How would you cope if you got into conflict with them?