Question Bank: Consumer Marketing

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Below, you will find questions divided into sub-categories for Consumer Marketing.

Creativity

1. Did you always think you were creative or is it something that you discovered later on in life?
2. Give me an example of when you had to go above and beyond the call of duty in order to get a job done?
3. How do you express creativity in your life? What is your art? that has this expression brought to your life?
4. How hands on do you like to be?
5. How would you approach introducing a new product for this company?
6. How would you market carrots?
7. How would you recommend that someone could discover their creative talent and cultivate it?
8. In the last year, what innovative ideas have you had at work? Were you able to implement them? How were they innovative?
9. Please give me three adjectives to describe yourself.
10. Tell me a time when you were faced with an idea or direction you did not agree with?
11. What do you do in your spare time?
12. What is the most creative thing you have done?
13. What is the most creative thing you have done in a past job? How did it occur?
14. What sorts of projects did you generate that required you to go beyond your job description?
15. What would your slogan be?
16. You are going to introduce yourself to the world using a full-page ad in the NY Times. You can only fit a single word on the page. What word do you choose?

Cultural Fit

1. Describe the management style that will bring forth your best work and efforts.
2. Describe the work environment or culture in which you are most productive and happy.
3. Describe what you believe are the most effective roles that a good manager plays in his or her relationship with reporting staff members.
4. Do you have a best friend at work? How do you feel about becoming friends with your coworkers? Is this a wise practice?
5. If you were hired to our company, what would be a new product idea and why?
6. What are the characteristics exhibited by the best boss you have ever had - or wished that you have had?
7. What are the positive aspects of your current job and work environment, or the last position you held before coming to this interview?
8. What is your preferred work style? Do you prefer working alone or as part of a team? What percentage of your time would you allocate to each, given the choice?
9. Why are you interested in Brand Management? Why our company?

General Experience

1. Do you consider yourself successful?
2. Do you have any marketing experience? If none, do you think you can handle the job?
3. Give me an example of effective advertising.
4. Have you been a consumer marketer in your previous jobs? Tell us about your experience.
5. How do you go about persuading others to your point of view?
6. How do you handle pressure? How do you cope with a stressful situation?
7. Name a product that you think is not managed well and why?
8. Tell me about a time when you successfully dealt with a difficult and demanding client.
9. Tell me about your marketing experience.
10. Tell us about a product that you think is well managed and explain what sets it apart.
11. What differentiates you from your peers?
12. What has been a major achievement in your working career to date?
13. Why are you seeking employment.
14. Why do you think you would do well at this marketing job?
15. You are a brand manager and sales are stable while the market is shrinking, what does that mean?
16. You are a brand manager and your manager says your advertising will be cut next year, what do you do?
17. You have a new product you want to launch in a foreign industry, what do you do?

Most Popular Questions

1. Give me an example of an ad you liked and why.
2. If you could be the brand manager on any brand, what would it be and why?
3. Rank and order the most important characteristics of brand management.
4. Tell me about an interesting, marketed product you have encountered. What caught you attention?
5. Tell me how you would position our company/product?
6. What does it take to be successful in marketing?
7. What makes a good advertisement?

Teamwork

1. Describe two situations from your past work experience in which you have determined a team was the best potential solution to a marketing-related problem or obstacle. How did teamwork influence the end result?
2. Give an example of a successful project you were part of. What was your role? Why was the project successful?
3. Give me an example of a time when your work group or department worked especially well with another work group or department to accomplish a goal.
4. Give us an example when you were part of a team. What was your role in the teamwork? How did you contribute to this task group? How often did you interact with other team members?
5. Have you been a member of a team that struggled or failed to accomplish its goal? If so, what assessment did you make of the reasons for the failure?
6. Have you been a team leader? Describe your role as a team leader. Tell us about the challenges you faced in trying to resolve issues among team members. What could you have done to be more effective?
7. Have you ever been a project leader in a team? How did you handle/face issues?
8. Have you ever had an experience where there were issues or strong disagreements among the team members? What did you do?
9. Tell us about your experience working with peers. How did it go? Have you ever faced difficulties and disagreements?

Technology Marketing

1. Are you familiar with link building campaigns?
2. Are you familiar with SEO?
3. Can you supply an example of a successful advertising campaign? What was the strategy and tools implemented that made the campaign successful?
4. Do you understand keywords usage and keywords research?
5. From a marketing perspective, how do we/should we position ourselves from our main competitors?
6. How do you implement survey tools to target your market?
7. How would you approach introducing a new product for this company?
8. If an engineer were to present you with an innovative product that you cannot compare to previous products because it is so innovative, how would you evaluate its potential?
9. Let’s say the company makes a product (for example a motherboard) on which it has negative margins. Would you discontinue using it? Why or why not? (maybe okay to keep if it contributes to sales of other products within the company)
10. Name a product recently launched by a start-up that you think will be successful and tell me why you think so.
11. Name a product recently launched that you think will be successful and tell me why you think so.
12. Pick a technical concept that you know well and describe it to me in simple language.
13. Tell me about an interesting, marketed product you have encountered. Why is it marketed that way? How would you do it differently?
14. Tell me about a time when you had to influence various departments/people to help accomplish your goals without having direct authority over them.
15. What are these terms – CPM, PPC and CTR?
16. What do you know about keyword stemming, density, and proximity?
17. What high-tech firms do you follow and why?
18. What internet service…Google, Yahoo, etc. Whom do you believe offers the best marketing tools? Can you explain?
19. What internet services have you worked with in the past? How did you offer your product using these tools?
20. What online marketing tools are you familiar with and how do you implement these tools?
21. What SEO or SEM services have you used?
22. What types of online advertising tools have you used?
23. What was the last website you looked at on the internet and for what purpose?