Interview questions for Administrative Assistant

1. Have you screened telephone calls?

2. Do you plan to further your education?

3. Tell me about your last boss.

4. What type of person do you work with best?

5. What type of person do you find difficult to work with?

6. How do you typically organize your work and plan your day?

7. We’re a company that believes employee flexibility is crucial. How do you feel
about that?

8. Tell me about the kind of decision you made without checking with your boss.

9. Tell me about a time when you abruptly had to change what you were doing.

10. Describe a situation when you needed to plan and follow through on a series
of complex steps in order to achieve a significant business goal.

11. Describe a situation in your last job where you could structure your own work
schedule -- what did you do?

12. Give me an example of a time when you had to go above and beyond the call
of duty in order to get the job done.

13. Describe a specific situation in which you took the initiative to learn something
new so you could do your job better.

14. What one thing seems to be the most important for you to feel motivated at
work?