- What is the most important thing you contribute to an organization?
- In considering a new position, what do you look for?
- What is the best job you ever had? Why
- Describe your ideal supervision.
- What kinds of people do you find most difficult to work with? Who do you like to work with?
- Who do you turn to for help when making business decisions?
- How do you organize a typical day in your present job?
- Why are you interested in this particular position?
- Describe your management style.
- As a supervisor, what are your expectations of your employees?
- Have you seen our website? What is your opinion? Do you have any suggestions for improvement? How does your background and experience relate to this position?
- Describe your computer skills. Are you familiar with Word, Excel, Email, Internet, etc.?
- What is your ideal working environment?
- What type of supervisory style do you work best with?
- As a member of the ____ department, you will come into contact with a diverse group of people. Generally describe your experience and style of working with staff members or customers from diverse or underrepresented populations.
- What does it mean to you to provide good customer service?
- What is your experience working under tight deadlines?
- Describe a time you had a conflict with a supervisor, peer, or customer and how you handled it.
- If I were to call your current/previous supervisor, what characteristics would he/she use to describe you? How would you describe yourself?
- Describe the best person you have ever worked for.
- What feedback have you received in your employment history that has helped you professionally?
- If it came down to you and one other person for the position, what one thing would you want to tell us about yourself?
- How would you describe your interactions with your co-workers?
- What are your long-term career goals? How do you see this position fitting with those goals?
- What do you expect from a supervisor?
- How do you resolve conflict between conflicting groups of individuals?
- What do you see as some challenges in transitioning into this organization?
- What type of setting do you prefer to work in?
- What have been some of the more rewarding aspects of your present or past positions?
- Give some examples of your ability to work well under pressure and with frequent interruptions while still performing accurate work and providing excellent customer service.
- In your recent position, how have you demonstrated initiative?
- How do you keep yourself and your worksite organized?
- Tell us of a time you could not finish a job due to lack of support or incomplete information. How did you try to remedy the situation?
- What is your experience working in a confidential setting or with confidential matters?
- Describe your customer service philosophy.
- Describe your computer background; what types of computer software packages are you familiar with and what types of projects have you worked on?
- What is your experience dealing with undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and international scholars?
- Please elaborate on your knowledge of undergraduate/graduate programs at UCSB.
- Have you had experience coordinating schedules?
- A student has come to the front desk shouting the Billing Office will not remove a charge from the BARC and that s/he has now lost priority status in class enrollments. S/he becomes increasingly angry as you try to gather the facts, what might you do?
- If you could improve one thing about your job performance, what would it be?
- If all jobs paid equally, what kind of job would you like to have?
- What are your long-term career goals?
- How do you feel about your career progress to date?
- What career objectives haven‘t you met?
- What are you looking forward to?
- Describe different jobs that were most productive to you. Describe those that were the least productive.
- When have people you were working with been dishonest? What did you do?
- When have you felt pressured to compromise your integrity?
- What have you had to do in your professional life that has been particularly unpleasant?
- What is the most important aspect of your current job?
- How have you grown most in the last few years?
- What have you done under pressure that you later wished you hadn‘t?
- Tell me about a time that you pulled a team together. How did you build moral?
- Why are you seeking a job change?
- Why did you leave your last job?
- Tell me of an occasion in which you achieves something as a member of a team. What was your role in the group and how was the project organized?
- Tell me of a time you have worked under time constraints. How did you get the job done?
- What do you know about UCSB?
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