Showing posts with label secretary interview questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secretary interview questions. Show all posts

Softskills Secretary Interview Questions

Softskills Secretary Interview Questions
1)Tell me about the most difficult person you have ever dealt with over the phone and what did you do?
2)Tell me about the most difficult person you have dealt with face to face and what did you do?
3)Tell me about the last time you had information that you could not tell anyone else about?
4)Tell me about the last time that you had to prioritize jobs because you had so many things going at once?
5)Are you able to multitask? Are you capable of handling multiple inquiries: staff, front door, students, phone?
6)How do you handle stressful situations?
7)Do you consider yourself a brisk worker or one who is slower paced yet persistent and consistent?
8)Give an example of a major problem you faced at work and how you solved it.
9)Are you capable of handling multiple inquiries; staff, front door, customers, phone?

Work priority Technical skill Interview For Secretary

Secretary Interview Questions on Work priority and Technical skills
Work priority scheduling
1)How do you plan work priorities? Do you use a specific system and if so, explain?
2)When you have three or more important projects scheduled for the same day, do you have a system in place to decide which one needs to be finished first?
3)On what do you base your decision for the priority level of the work?
Technical Skill interview
1)Do you know how to use MS Excel?
2)Can you create a calendar of projects for each manager in Excel?
3)What have you done on Excel? What is most complicated thing you have done on Excel?
4)What kinds of word documents have you done?
5)What office equipment are you able to use? What software are you comfortable using?
6)What computer skills do you possess? What programs are you proficient in using? WORD? EXCEL? ACCESS? WORKS? OMNI FORM/FILLER?
7)Can you take dictation in shorthand? If not, how do you take notes that a supervisor wants converted to letter, form, etc.?
8)Can you use macros?
9)What is your typing speed?
10)What software are you comfortable using?

Secretary interview Question Planning and work Skills

Secretary interview Question Planning and work Skills
1)How do you setup your workspace?
2)Do you prefer everything to be stored in one place or do you have a system for remembering where stuff is?
3)How do you make sure that colleagues can find information or files if you are not around?
4)Provide an example of where you had to organize a schedule, people or work space and elaborate on how you went about doing it.
5)What do you perceive as the worst part in your present/last job?
6)We have problems with time Please provide us with a solution to it.
7)Provide an example of a conflict situation where you had to select between priorities and how did you reach a compromise?
8)How do you handle a too large workload?
9)Provide an example of where you had to deal with an angry colleague about work and explain how you resolved the issue.
10)Provide an example of a strict deadline you had to deal with recently and explain how you kept the deadline.
11)Provide examples of what you see as tight deadlines.
12)What was the most recent job overload situation with a tight deadline and how did you deal with it?

Secretary interview questions Meeting management

Secretary interview questions Meeting management
1.What is your experience with meeting planning and calendar maintenance?
2.How do you coordinate and schedule a meeting?
3.If I asked you to schedule a meeting and insure that all aspects of the meeting are taken care of, what will you do?
4.What is your experience with meeting planning and calendar maintenance?