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Subject: PM Interview Questions
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Posted By:
ASR
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I am starting to recruit IT Project Managers within my company.
Does anyone have a list of useful interview questions that I could use ?
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Date/Time of Post: 23 Feb 2005 04:14
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Posted By:
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hopes this helps
Questions That Examine Leadership Potential
1. How do you handle non-productive team members?
2. How do you motivate team members who are burned out, or bored?
3. How do you handle team members who come to you with their personal problems?
4. What are your career goals? How do you see this job affecting your goals?
5. Explain how you operate interdepartmentally.
6. Tell me how you would react to a situation where there was more than one way to accomplish the same task, and there were very strong feelings by others on each position.
7. Consider that you are in a diverse environment, out of your comfort zone. How would you rate your situational leadership style?
8. Give me an example of your leadership involvement where teamwork played an important role.
Questions That Examine Trustworthiness
9. Tell me about a situation where your loyalty was challenged. What did you do? Why?
10. In what types of situations is it best to abandon loyalty to your manager?
11. In todays business environment, when is loyalty to your manager particularly important?
Questions That Examine Personal Strengths and Weaknesses
12. Why are you interested in this position?
13. Describe what you think it would be like to do this job every day.
14. What do you believe qualifies you for this position?
15. What have you learned from your failures?
16. Of your previous jobs, which one did you enjoy the most? What did you like the most/least? Why? What was your major accomplishment? What was your biggest frustration?
17. Tell me about special projects or training you have had that would be relevant to this job.
18. What are some things that you would not like your job to include?
19. What are your current work plans? Why are you thinking about leaving your present job?
20. Describe an ideal job for you.
Questions That Examine Judgment
21. What would you do if you found out that a contractor was in a conflict of interest situation?
22. If I were to contact your former employee, what would he say about your decision-making abilities?
23. Give me an example of a win-win situation you have negotiated.
24. Tell me about your verbal and written communication ability. How well do you represent yourself to others? What makes you think so?
25. Give me an example of a stressful situation you have been in. How well did you handle it? If you had to do it over again, would you do it differently? How do you deal with stress, pressure, and unreasonable demands?
26. Tell me about a tough decision you had to make?
Questions That Examine General Experience
27. Describe what you did at your work place yesterday.
28. How would you solve the following technical problem? (Describe a typical scenario that could occur in the new position.)
29. What strengths did you bring to your last position?
30. Describe how those contributions impacted results?
Questions That Examine Project Management Experience
31. What are the necessary steps to successful project management?
32. How do you plan for a project?
33. What is important to consider when planning a (your type of project)?
34. What are things that you have found to be low priority when planning for (your type of project)?
35. What distinguishes a project from routine operations?
36. What are the three constraints on a project?
37. What are the five control components of a project?
38. What qualifications are required to be an effective project manager?
39. What experience have you had in project management?
40. Name five signs that indicate your project may fail.
41. Tell us about a project in which you participated and your role in that project.
42. When you are assigned a project, what steps do you take to complete the project?
43. As you begin your assignment as a project manager, you quickly realise that the corporate sponsor for the project no longer supports the project. What will you do?
44. Your three month project is about to exceed the projected budget after the first month. What steps will you take to address the potential cost overrun?
45. Tell us about a successful project in which you participated and how you contributed to the success of that project.
46. You are given the assignment of project manager and the team members have already been identified. To increase the effectiveness of your project team, what steps will you take?
47. You have been assigned as the project manager for a team comprised of new employees just out of college and "entry-level" consulting staff. What steps can you take to insure that the project is completed against a very tight time deadline?
48. What is a "project milestone"?
49. What is "project float"
50. Your project is beginning to exceed budget and to fall behind schedule due to almost daily user change orders and increasing conflicts in user requirements. How will you address the user issues?
51. Youve encountered a delay on an early phase of your project. What actions can you take to counter the delay? Which actions will have the most effect on the result?
52. Describe what you did in a difficult project environment to get the job done on time and on budget.
53. What actions are required for successful executive sponsorship of a project?
Questions That Examine Past Consulting Services
54. How did you get your last project?
55. What were your specific responsibilities?
56. What did you like about the project and dislike about the project?
57. What did you learn from the project?
58. Tell me about a time when you ran into any difficult situations. How did you handle them?
59. Tell me about the types of interaction you had with other employees.
60. Tell me of an accomplishment you are particularly proud of and what it entailed.
61. Do you have people from your past consulting services who would provide a professional reference?
62. What other similar consulting or independent contractor services have you rendered?
63. Discuss how you would envision working as an independent contractor or consultant for us.
64. What conflicting responsibilities will you have?
Questions That Examine the New Assignment
65. What would be your specific goals for this new role as a consultant or independent contractor?
66. What experience do you have that you think will be helpful?
67. This assignment will require a lot of [describe]. Will that be a problem for you?
68. This assignment will require interacting with [describe the types of people]. What experience do you have working with such people?
69. What would you like to get from this new assignment?
70. What are two common but major obstacles for a project like this? What would you do in the face of these obstacles to keep your team on schedule?
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Date/Time of Post: 11 Mar 2006 02:51
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Subject: PM Interview Questions
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Posted By:
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Great post, very useful - any other ideas?
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Date/Time of Post: 26 Jun 2006 05:23
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Posted By:
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Anyone can help to answer the question?
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Date/Time of Post: 15 Aug 2006 08:09
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Posted By:
Guest
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These questions where thown at me in the recent interview i had attended
1.what is project charter ? what are the elements in a project charter?
2.which document will you refere for future decisions?
3.How will define scope? out put of scope definition process?
4.what is quality management? do you inspect or plan for quality ?
5.what is EVM? how will you use it in managing projects?
6.what is a project? and what is program?
7.what are project selection methods?
8.which tool would you use to define , manage and control projects?
9.what is risk management and how will you plan risk response?
10.what are outputs of project closure?
11.what are the methods used for project estimation?
12.what methods have you used for estimation?
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Date/Time of Post: 23 Aug 2006 05:20
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Posted By:
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These question are right from the PMP preparation.
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Date/Time of Post: 31 Oct 2006 08:30
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Subject: Here are more questions
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Posted By:
khullara
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Jan 07
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1. How would you start a project?
2. If you were to deliver a project to a customer, and timely delivery depended upon a sub-supplier, how would you manage the supplier? What contractual agreements would you put in place?
In this field (the field you are interviewing for), what are three critically important things you must do well as a project manager in order for the project to succeed?
What metrics would you expect to use to determine the on-going success of your project?
How are your soft skills? Can you "sell" the project to a team?
You have a team member who is not meeting his commitments, what do you do?
Companies have historically looked at technical skills, but more and more business managers are realizing that not have "people" skills tend to cripple projects.
How many projects you handled in the past? Deadlines met? On time/ within budget? Obstacles you had to overcome?
Do you understand milestones, interdependencies? Resource allocation?
Do you know what Project Software they use and is there training for it?
Tell me about yourself. (To avoid rambling or becoming flustered, plan your answer.)
What are your strengths? (Make an exhaustive list and review it exhaustively before the interview.)
What are your weaknesses?(What you say here can and will be used against you!)
How would your current (or last) boss describe you?*
What were your boss's responsibilities? (Interviewers sometimes ask this question to prevent you from having the chance to claim that you did your boss's job. Be ready for it!)
What's your opinion of them? (Never criticize your past or present boss in an interview. It just makes you look bad!)
How would your co-workers or subordinates describe you professionally?* (Remember, now is not the time for modesty! Brag a little bit.)
Why do you want to work for us?
Why do you want to leave your present employer?
Why should we hire you over the other finalists?
What qualities or talents would you bring to the job?*
Tell me about your accomplishments.
What is your most important contribution to your last (or current) employer?
How do you perform under deadline pressure? Give me an example.
How do you react to criticism? (You try to learn from it, of course!)
Describe a conflict or disagreement at work in which you were involved. How was it resolved?
What are two of the biggest problems you've encountered at your job and how did you overcome them?
Think of a major crisis you've faced at work and explain how you handled it.
Give me an example of a risk that you took at your job (past or present) and how it turned out.
What's your managerial style like?
Have you ever hired employees; and, if so, have they lived up to your expectations?
What type of performance problems have you encountered in people who report to you, and how did you motivate them to improve?
Describe a typical day at your present (or last) job.
What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
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Date/Time of Post: 09 Jan 2007 07:20
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Subject: useful
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Posted By:
frank
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Jul 07
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thanks for that info, very useful to me.
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Date/Time of Post: 15 Jul 2007 03:37
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Subject: Ansewrs
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Posted By:
PMPGuest
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I have the Interview tomorrow Can anyone help me with answers for the question listed above. Please help me.
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Date/Time of Post: 26 Mar 2008 12:27
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Subject: Project Management Interview Tips..
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Posted By:
Bkhinda
Posts: 6
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Jun 08
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Hi,
Judging by your post date, it's probably to late however if you have any further interviews have a look at the following website, it's got some great advice for project management interviews:
http://www.pmcareers.co.uk
Thanks,
Baz
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Date/Time of Post: 17 Jun 2008 01:34
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Subject: Project Management Interview
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Date/Time of Post: 21 Jul 2008 02:14
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Subject: Project management survey
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Posted By:
mfkhan
Posts: 2
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Aug 08
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Thanks for the post. It really helped me out to prepare for my interview...
I am studying in Birmingham City University and am doing my research on Agile project management Methods and thier appropraitness for IT projects.
I am doing a small survey for my project. Every one, please click on the following link to access the survey.
http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=drk2xp2wqlq7dg1468758
It would also be great, if you can forward this survey to as many people as possible. Your valuable time and input will be really appericiated. Thanks
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Date/Time of Post: 04 Aug 2008 09:15
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