Assistant interview questions

Good assistant interview questions

You can use free interview questions for Assistant positions as follows:

1. Provide an example of a conflict situation where you had to select between priorities and how did you reach a compromise?

2. How do you handle a too large workload?

3. How do you plan work priorities? Do you use a specific system and if so, explain?

4. 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?

5. Can you create a calendar of projects for each manager in Excel?

6. What have you done on Excel? What is most complicated thing you have done on Excel?

7. How do you coordinate and schedule a meeting?

8. If I asked you to schedule a meeting and insure that all aspects of the meeting are taken care of, what will you do?

9. What is your experience with meeting planning and calendar maintenance?

10. How do you work with confidential information?

11. What are the different means by which documents may be filed?

12. Please provide a few examples of written communication (just mention) for example ? writing to embassies or central banks.

13. Please elaborate on all the types of business communication you have dealt with.

14. How do you setup your workspace?

15. Do you prefer everything to be stored in one place or do you have a system for remembering where stuff is?

16. What kinds of word documents have you done?

17. Tell me about the most difficult person you have ever dealt with over the phone and what did you do?

18. Tell me about the most difficult person you have dealt with face to face and what did you do?

19. Tell me about the last time you had information that you could not tell anyone else about?