hiring/firing

Hiring questions/firing questions

1.        What is your previous job experience and performance?

I managed a screen printing/embroidery shop.

2.       Please tell me some leadership qualities that you possess?

I communicate well, honest, great listener, know what it takes to get a job done, team player, self-starter, and a hard worker.

3.       What are your strengths and weaknesses? Why are these strengths and weaknesses?

Strength – Communicate well and a team player.  These are strengths because I can work well with others and know how to handle sticky situations.  When you work well as a team you can accomplish much more than an individual and the working environment is always pleasurable.

Weakness – Take on too much.  This is a weakness because in order to get everything done sometimes you have to compromise one job and not give it 100% in order to get another one done and that should never be the case.  Each job should be given 100%!  You should always know your limits because sometimes it takes only one unhappy customer to create unfavorable advertising.

4.       How would you describe your organizational abilities?

Adequate.  Enough to be able to complete all my responsibilities.   If I spent too much time organizing I would never get any of my jobs done.

5.       What have you done above and beyond the "call of duty" and what motivated you to do it?

I stayed all night and into the next evening to get a job done on time.  If I tell a customer it was going to be done at a certain time, I will do everything it takes to keep my dependability.  It meant more to me to have a happy customer than to have sleep.  Happy customer = more business.

6.       Tell me how you handled a difficult employee.

I pulled one employee aside in private and let them know my concerns and gave them a warning that if it happened again I would have to let them go.

7.       What is the process to discipline someone who has done something against policy?

Always sit down in private and give them a fair warning that it better not happen again.

8.       What steps are you willing to take to rectify the problem

If I knew the employee had potential, I would try and work with them, but after a couple of warnings and if they kept up with the same behavior, they obviously don’t care and I would have to let them go.

9.       When somebody needs disciplinary action what would you do first

Sit down and talk with them in private.

10.   If somebody was to be fired what steps would need to be taken

First go to human resources to get everything documented, Have a letter of termination ready, sit them down in private and let them know it was their last day, hand them the letter and let them know their final check will be in the mail.