Question Bank: Human Resources

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Below, you will find questions divided into sub-categories for Human Resources.

General

1. An employee tells you about a sexual harassment allegation but then tells you they don't want to do anything about it; they just thought you should know. How do you respond?
2. Briefly describe the purpose of the following basic Federal regulation: the FLSA.
3. Briefly describe the purpose of the following basic Federal regulation: the Title VII/Civil Rights Act.
4. Describe how you were able to assess the success of HR services and employee relations in your last HR position? What did you measure?
5. Describe the purpose of the following basic Federal regulations: FMLA.
6. Describe the purpose of the following basic Federal regulations: WC.
7. Describe your knowledge of and/or involvement with progressive discipline.
8. Describe your knowledge of/involvement with Performance Evaluation processes.
9. Explain the purpose of the following basic Federal regulations: ADA.
10. Give me an example of a time when you had to keep from speaking or making a decision because you did not have enough information.
11. Have you ever worked in a Union Environment? What were the positives/negatives?
12. How did you determine or contribute to determining the priorities for the HR department in your most recent position?
13. If not this career, which other career would you have chosen?
14. Tell me about a time when a manager wanted you to terminate an employee in contrast to your company’s termination policy. How was it resolved?
15. Tell me about programs that you have implemented.
16. Tell me about training and development programs you have developed.
17. Tell me about your policy development experiences. What employment policies have you developed or revised? What is your experience in compiling or revising an Employee Handbook?
18. Tell us about your professional life.
19. Tell us about yourself.
20. What are your financial expectations from any job in your life?
21. What are your financial expectations from this job?
22. What are your long-term goals in professional life?
23. What are your short-term goals in your professional life?
24. What do you believe is the role of the HR department in relation to the mission, vision, and strategies of the business?
25. What do you know about our organization?
26. What experience do you have in multi-state HR management?
27. What have you done to help your human resources department to become a strategic partner?
28. Why have you chosen this career?

Most Popular Questions

1. As HR professionals, we often deal with legal and ethical situations. Tell me about an ethical situation you have encountered and what part you took in resolving it. Tell me about any illegal discrimination charges you have handled and how these were resolved.
2. Describe the most difficult employee relations situation you have had to handle, how it was resolved or not, and why.
3. Do you have a personal philosophy about HR management?
4. During your HR career, which positions have you reported to and which reporting structure do you prefer?
5. How do you stay current with changes in employment laws, practices and other HR issues?
6. Tell me about your experience in training and developing your employees or managers. Tell me why you chose Human Resource Management as your profession.
7. What do you like most about HR? What do you like least, and what do you find the most challenging?

Organizational Sensitivity

1. Can you tell us about a time when you helped a department make needed changes? What was the change and how did HR help identify the need for the change and the action plan. Was the intervention successful?
2. Describe the work environment that you developed for people in your last HR position. What were the key characteristics of the work environment that you were trying to maintain and reinforce?
3. Give me an example of a time when you had to keep from speaking or making a decision.
4. How did your HR department contribute to planning, creating, maintaining, and changing the corporate culture? What were your significant contributions to establishing the work environment for people?
5. Many times being effective in a job means "reading the system" or figuring out what must be done to institute a change. Describe a time when you "read the system."
6. Please discuss a time when an employee came to the HR department with a complaint about his or her manager. How did you investigate the complaint and help the employee solve the problem? How did the story end?
7. Tell us about a time when you initiated a people process or program that was successful in your organization. Why did you believe your organization needed the program? What steps did you take to initiate and develop the program?
8. What have been your experiences in dealing with organization politics? What happened?
9. What programs or processes you developed to maintain and reinforce the work environment that you offered employees are you the most proud of contributing to or initiating?
10. Whom do you know who has been very effective in getting things done in a complicated working environment? What did they do? Who are they like (or unlike) you?

Problem Solving

1. Describe a major work problem that you have faced and explain your method of dealing with it.
2. Describe a situation where you solved a problem that plagued the job until you came along.
3. Describe a specific problem you solved for your employer. How did you approach the problem?
4. What role did others play? What was the outcome?
5. Describe a time when you anticipated potential problems and developed preventive measures.
6. Give an example of a time when you had to be relatively quick in coming to a decision.
7. Give me an example of a time when there was a decision to be made and procedures were not in place. What was the outcome?
8. Give me an example of a time when you used your fact-finding skills to solve a problem.
9. Give me an example of a time you had to make a difficult decision.
10. Give me an example of when taking your time to make a decision paid off.
11. It is common for employees to be quick to identify problems and slower to provide solutions. Give me an example of how you helped your employees move from only identifying problems to providing both issues and solutions.
12. Please describe a time when you faced a significant organizational or political barrier to succeeding with an important work project or activity. Describe the barrier and the process you used to arrive at your solution.
13. Tell me about a specific time when you had to handle a tough problem which challenged fairness or ethical issues.
14. Tell me about a time when you missed an obvious solution to a problem.
15. Tell me about a time when you were forced to make an unpopular decision.
16. Tell me about the biggest career decision that you have had to make. How did you come to your decision?
17. What steps do you follow to study a problem before making a decision?
18. What was your most difficult decision in the last 6 months? What made it difficult?

Work Experience

1. What kind of decisions do you make rapidly? What kind takes more time? Give examples.