Is there anything that's not in your CV you would like to highlight?
Adaptability
Tell us about the biggest change you've had to deal with. How did you cope with it?
What change of job did you find the most difficult to make?
Compliance
Tell us about a time when you had to make a difficult ethical decision - something that the company did that you disagreed with. How did you cope?
How do you deal with a situation where you see something that's going against company policies? How do you make sure you're compliant with those in your day to day work?
Comms - Verbal
Describe a situation where you had to win someone over who was reluctant, or unresponsive
How do you prepare for an important meeting?
Describe a situation when you had to communicate a message to someone, knowing that you were right and that they were wrong and reluctant to accept your point of view.
Tell us about a situation when you failed to communicate appropriately.
Comms - Listening
Tell us about a time when you were asked to summarise complex points.
Tell us about a time when you had trouble remaining focused on your audience. How did you handle this?
Describe a situation where you had to deal with an angry customer.
Comms - Written
How do you feel writing a report differs from preparing an oral presentation?
How do you plan the writing of a report?
The internet and remote working is hard to express your meaning. How do you vary your response to account for this?
Conflicts
Tell us about a time when you had to deal with a conflict within your team.
Tell us about a situation where conflict led to a negative outcome. How did you handle the situation and what did you learn from it?
Creativity and Innovation
Tell us about a time when you had to convince a senior colleague that change was necessary. What made you think that your new approach would be better suited?
Decisiveness
What big decision did you make recently. How did you go about it?
How did you reach the decision that you wanted to change your job?
What is the decision that you have put off the longest? Why?
Tell us about a time when you had to make a decision without knowledge of the full facts.
Tell us about a situation where you made a decision too quickly and got it wrong. Why made you take that decision?
Delegation
Give an example of a project or task that you felt compelled to complete on your own. What stopped you from delegating?
How do you cope with having to go away from the office for long periods of time (i.e. holidays). Explain how you would delegate responsibilities based on you current situation.
External awareness
Give an example where you underestimated the impact of your decisions on stakeholders external to your organisation.
Flexibility
Describe a situation where you started off thinking that your approach was the best, but needed to alter your course during the implementation.
Describe a situation where you were asked to do something that you had never attempted previously.
Describe your strongest and your weakest colleagues. How do you cope with such diversity of personalities?
If we gave you a new project to manage, how would you decide how to approach it?
Independence
Which decisions do you feel able to make on your own and which do you require senior support to make?
Describe a situation where you had a disagreement or an argument with a superior. How did you handle it?
When have you gone beyond the limits of your authority in making a decision?
Influencing
Describe a situation where you were able to influence others on an important issue. What approaches or strategies did you use?
Describe the project or idea that you were most satisfied to sell to your management.
Describe a time where you failed to sell an idea that you knew was the right one.
Integrity
There are times when you have to withhold information from the team as part of your job. Can you tell me about a time that you had to keep information from someone that would really impact them
What would you do if your boss asked you to do something illegal?
Leadership
Describe a project or situation where you had to use different leadership styles to reach your goal.
Describe a situation where you needed to inspire a team. What challenges did you meet and how did you achieve your objectives?
Tell me about a time when you were less successful as a leader than you would have wanted to be.
Diversity
Give an example of a situation or project where a positive outcome depended on the work of people from a wide range of backgrounds and ideas
Resilience
Tell us about a project where you achieved success despite the odds being stacked against you. How did you ensure that you pulled through?
Give us an example of a situation where you worked under pressure.
What is the biggest challenge that you have faced in your career. How did you overcome it?
Risk taking
Tell us about risks that you have taken in your professional or personal life. How did you go about making your decision?
Describe one of your current or recently completed projects, setting out the risks involved. How did you make decisions? How do you know that you made the correct decisions?
Empathy
When did you last upset someone?
What steps do you take to understand your colleagues' personalities? Give an example where you found it hard to adjust to one particular colleague.
Teamwork
How do you build relationships with other members of your team? (esp remotely)
FOSS
People use the term free software and open source interchangeably. Does that matter if we're all talking about the same thing?
What license would you pick for a new work?
Which free software/open source personality do you admire the most, and why?
Wrap up
Other questions (concerns, or topic of the day etc)
