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Which supervisors have you found easiest to work with and which have
been most difficult? This is to judge your adaptability.
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What
did you like best and least about your previous job?
Checking your administration and management
skills.
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Have you ever had to get a point across to different types of people?
Give me an example and tell me what approach did you take?
Finding out about your communication skills.
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Describe a work-related problem you had to face recently.
What did you do to deal with it? Decision making
skills tested.
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Give me an example of a time you did more than what was required in
your job. Seeking initiative.
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Give me an example of a time you found it necessary to make an exception
to the rules in order to get something done. How is your integrity?
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What was the best decision you ever made? What were the alternatives?
How did you go about making it?
Checking your judgment.
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Tell me about a time you had to gain the cooperation of a group over
which you had little or no authority. What did you do? How effective
were you?
Leadership.
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Have you ever had trouble learning a new method or procedure? How
did you deal with that situation? Investigating
your learning ability.
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Tell me about a problem you have had that would affect more than one
department. How did you try to solve it? For
organisational cooperation.