Clerk interview questions

Clerical job

• An employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

• One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

Sample interview questions

1. How are you keeping up with the changes in software, technology, etc.?

2. Give me a recent example of a situation you have faced when the “pressure was on” and tell me what happened as a result and how you handled it.

3. How did you change a system or procedures you worked under in your last job?

4. What were your responsibilities for ordering supplies? How did you keep track of that responsibility?

5. Have you had assignments that had many tiny details? Give me an example.

6. Do you enjoy proofreading or correcting other’s work? Why or why not?

7. How often have you had to deal with others’ frustrations? Give me an example of how you handled an upset person.

8. How have you organized your typical workday?

9. Give me an example of a time when you had to juggle several things at once. How often did this type of thing happen? How did you handle it?

10. What type of letters, memos, etc., can you set-up or write “from scratch.”

11. How much writing have you done from incomplete instructions or notes? Give me some examples, please.

12. What are some of the positive things about working in the clerical field?

13. Give me an example of a complex assignment you have accomplished on your own. How did you get it started? Why did you set it up that way?

14. Give me an example of the kind of thing you have had to keep confidential. When was it most difficult to keep that confidence?

15. Which sort of manager (tenant, co-worker) do you find hardest to work with? What did they do that bothered you?